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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006
SPEAKER
Film portrays disabled people as'real'
Mark Zupan, center, stars in a documentary film Murderball, which chronicles the lives of the U.S. Paralympics rugby squad. Zupan will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union.
The film "Murderball" will be shown at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Between the two showings, Mark Zupan, captain of the U.S. Paralympic team that won the bronze medal in the Athens games in 2004, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union.
BY DARLA SLIPKE
Derek Zarda, Shawnee senior and a member of Able Hawks, said the documentary featured people with disabilities without focusing on the disabilities, which was "ground-breaking." The film didn't emphasize overcoming the challenge, he said rather it was about a "great sport" that was relatively new and exciting and the everyday lives of its players.
The film documented the intense rivalry and competition between the U.S. and Canadian Paralympic rugby teams.
Students will have two opportunities tonight to watch rugby athletes in wheelchairs slam full-forced into one another while moving a ball up and down a court.
"Hopefully you're not going to see it just to see people overcoming the odds," he said.
Zarda said he enjoyed a scene where a player talked about having sex because it addressed a topic that many people shied away from when interacting with people who had disabilities.
Katia Birge, president of Able Hawks and Denver senior, said the film depicted disabled people in a real way, as people with desires, failures, wishes, careers and families.
"We get frustrated" she said. "We have rage."
"It's not inspirational. It's not weird, it just real." Birge said.
Birge said that a lot of publications and movies portrayed people with disabilities as perfect, but that the perfection was untrue. Her favorite part of the film was when one of the players was really mad at life. Birge said that part was "beautiful" and showed him as a person with real emotions.
After his speech, Zupan will sign copies of his book "Gimp," which was released last week. In the book, he wrote candidly about his life.
Birge said that about 2,000 KU students had been documented with disabilities, but that more existed. Despite this large population, she said only one-third of buildings and the majority of buses were not accessible to students with disabilities.
SCIENCE
The event is part of Disabilities Awareness Month. It is free for students and $3 for non-students.
She said the department's record of strong work in bioanalytical chemistry began with Ralph N. Adams, known to friends and colleagues as "Buzz."
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
New institute celebrates legacy, promotes research
Kevin Boatright, director of research communications at the
The Ralph N. Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, which was dedicated Saturday, will bring together students and faculty from various departments to study diseases.
"I believe it will help make more visible something that is already there: a very strong group of faculty doing incredible things with cutting edge analytical techniques," Lunte said.
BY DANNY LUPPINO
"The technologies developed in his lab here at KU are used virtually by every pharmaceutical company to determine the effectiveness of pharmacological treatments for depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and addiction to name a few," Lunte said.
Susan Lunte, who has been named the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and director of the institute, said the institute would bring greater national visibility to the chemistry department and its work to research diseases.
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University of Kansas, said Saturday's dedication drew alumni from high-profile institutes across the country who had learned from Adams.
"I think naming this institute after somebody so high-profile will certainly help with the national recognition," Boatright said. "The more I've learned about Ralph Adams, the more impressed I am."
Adams, nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1997, died in 2002.
Lunte said she would bring researchers from the chemistry department together with those from other areas like physics and engineering.
Bioanalytical chemistry could strike some as an obscure area of study, Mario Rivera, professor of analytical chemistry, said the study combined analytical chemistry with biomedical research.
"The goal is to develop multidisciplinary projects with faculty in the life sciences and engineering that will lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, AIDS, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease," Lunte said.
Kansan staff writer Danny Luppino can be contacted at dluppino@kansan.com.
Edited by Aly Barland
Photo by: Earl Richardson, University Relations
October 27, 2006
Kansas Union, Ballroom
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Meet with BSW, MSW & Ph.D. admissions staff.
* Find out about career options in social work.
For more information go to: http://www.socwelku.edu/careercarnival/
- See what social workers do!
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Take Advantage of Pre-Social Work Group Advising Sessions:
The dates/times are:
Tues., October 24th, 12-2 pm, 208 Twente Hall
Wed., November 1st, 9-11 am, 208 Twente Hall and
Fri., November 10th, 1-3pm, 208 Twente Hall
The words "nigger," "dyke," "bitch," "beaner," "Jew," and "fat pig" were plastered across the second floor walls of Lewis Hall last night.
AWARENESS
Program tackles issues of oppression
Someone was heard loudly vomiting in a bathroom that had been covered in images of models ripped from fashion magazines.
Tunnel of Oppression
What: Ten to 15 minute walk-through event designed to expose students and staff to a variety of oppressive issues, including:racism, sexism, homophobia, body image and domestic abuse
When: Tonight
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: Lewis Residence Hall's second floor
Source: Multicultural Resource Center
Student volunteers acted out various scenes and showed videos. Mutsa Kajese, Harare, Zimbabwe, senior, has volunteered for the event for the past three years and this year acted out the domestic violence scene with another volunteer.
Down the hall, screams and loud bangs were heard as a couple engaged in a violent fight.
The walk-through event was designed to create an awareness of stereotypes, hate speech and oppression on campus, said Precious Porras, a program associate for
"I don't like acting it out, but it's got to be done," Kajese said. "The tunnel is more of an interactive, in your face, very direct approach to dealing with these issues. The racial slurs hanging on the wall when you walk in, everything, it just hits you."
These dramatic scenes greeted those who took part in last night's Tunnel of Oppression, an activity designed to raise awareness and break down barriers.
The Tunnel of Oppression, sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, will play out again tonight from 6 to 9.
University.
Porras said the event was started for that very reason. The tunnel tackles issues that are normally swept under the rug because of their intense and unkind nature.
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Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
the Multicultural Resource Center. Students and staff are invited to partake in a range of experiences dealing with oppression, including homophobia, racism, class discrimination, anti-Semitism, able-bodiness and sexism. The event also tackles body image negativity and domestic abuse issues.
"The primary goal of the project is to create an experiential program for KU students, staff and faculty," Porras said. "The tunnel is laid out to increase the level of sensory images as participants progressed through the experience."
A counselor from Counseling and Psychological Services is on hand after the walk-through to help participants process what they experienced.
Dominique Crain, Lee's Summit, Mo. junior, mimics throwing up in a room about body image issues at the Tunnel of Oppression in Lewis Hall Monday.
Porras helped to coordinate the event this year. Porras said the walkthrough was specifically designed to heighten the emotions of participants.
The event is in its fifth year at the
Vanessa Pearson/KANSAN
BY GEORGE JAHN ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIDDLE EAST
Iran adds nuclear facility
VIENNA, Austria — Iran is expanding its uranium enrichment program even as the U.N. Security Council focuses on possible sanctions for its defiance of a demand to give up the activity and ease fears it seeks nuclear weapons, dinlomats said Monday.
The diplomats told The Associated Press that within the
While the 164 centrifuges were not producing enriched uranium, even the decision to "dry test" them showed Iran's defiance of the Security Council. The council had set an Aug. 31 deadline for Tehran to cease all experiments linked to enrichment.
We salute you...
past few weeks Iranian nuclear experts had started up a second pilot enrichment facility.
BY KATIA MARTINEZ ASSOCIATED PRESS
FIRE
PANAMA CITY, Panama Mechanical problems triggered a fire that raced through a bus in Panama's capital on Monday, killing at least 18 people, injuring 25 and sending passengers jumping from the flaming vehicle, police said.
Investigators found no evidence of explosives on the city bus and believed some form of fuel leak was to blame for the blaze. The bus lacked an emergency exit.
Firefighters try to extinguish a burning bus in Panama City. Panama, on Monday.
Witnesses said they saw smoke pouring from the area around the motor second; before the bus caugid fire.
At least 25 people managed to escape but all were hospitalized with severe burns.
Firefighter Cecilio Lasso said four of the 18 killed were children.
The fire occurred in the Bellavista section of downtown Panama City. The remains of those killed were originally laid out on a crowded street, but eventually removed by emergency crews.
Traffic was snarled in all directions for hours and television stations beamed grusome scenes of the aftermath live to all of Panama.
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Ovigildo Herrera, deputy director of transportation authorities, said the bus was operating with faulty brakes and no license plates.
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