THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007
NEWS
》 FUNDRAISER
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'Fashion Monsters' to help charity
BY SASHA ROE
sroe@kansan.com
Instead of buying the generic princess costume from a chain store
this Halloween downtown businesses suggest checking out their ideas while benefiting a local charity. "Fashion Monsters" will feature costumes from vintage clothing stores and performances from
thrilled to learn Furst wanted the next fashion show to benefit SSL.
"We've always relied on fundraisers," Pike said. "When Kate asked me, I said, 'Sure, you bet.' They put on one
"The usual fashion shows are boring to me. Let's make it a party and give it a theme."
local artists to benefit the Social Service League at The Replay Lounge Saturday.
KATE FURST
Wild Man Vintage employee
"They're helping out a lot of people in a lot of different ways," Furst said.
Kate Furst, Wild Man Vintage employee and show director, said this was the second fashion show she had done for charity. In July, Furst presented "Summer Sweat!" for Audio Reader. Furst said the Social Service League was her first choice for a second fundraiser. She said that with the loss of the Salvation Army and Disabled American Veteran's thrift store, the SSL was an important downtown fixture.
The Social Service League is Lawrence's oldest charity, dating back to 1861. The SSL provides services through its thrift store and its eye and shoe funds. The eye fund assists local families with the cost of eye examinations and glasses, and the shoe fund works with Payless Shoes to provide shoes to children and adults in need.
Jean Ann Pike of SSL said fundraisers and store sales were the only funding the SSL received. Pike was
Furst said "Fashion Monsters" wasn't a typical fashion show but a general showcase of the creative outlets available in Lawrence.
"The usual fashion shows are boring
to me," Furst said. "Let's make it a party and give it a theme."
Models from each business will display Halloween costumes created from vintage clothing. Performances from "The Felt Show" satirical puppet troupe and local artists of the E.M.U. Theater will entertain the audience throughout the show. Each business is creating its own costume theme from items in the store.
Erica Voetsch, Leawood junior and an Arizona Trading Co. employee, said local shops could provide more creative and more unique costume ideas than larger chain stores.
"There's such a better variety," Voetsch said. "We have such a wide selection of weird stuff that comes in here."
Voetsch said the store had an entire corner designated for Halloween costumes and props.
Malina Heinemann, designer for Wild Man Vintage's costumes for the show, said she created a 1880s-style dress with a combination of vintage clothing ranging from the 1890s to the 1970s.
"You can really use your imagination," Heinemann said. "You get to be the costumer."
Furst said she enjoyed putting together the shows and the help from the downtown businesses.
"I just want to have a good time, and throw an awesome party for people," Furst said. "And when you do it for a charity, people are so gung-ho."
— Edited by Chris Beattie
The show begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday at The Replay Lounge and is for people 21 and older. The money made from the show's $3 admission charge goes to the Social Service League.
Vintage dress
"Fashion Monsters" show What: Costume fashion show to benefit the Social Service League
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Replay Lounge
Businesses providing costumes and models:
Wild Man Vintage
Vintage Van
Arizona Trading Company
Eco Boutique
Miss Fortune's Creation Station
Beyond the Door
Local designers Josie Rosenthal and Kitty Reese
Hair and make-up:
Headmasters
Images Salon
Day Spa
The Blue Dot Salon.
Music:
Music:
DJ Cyrus
Iggy Baby
》 ENVIRONMENT
Nature reserve expands with 160-acre plot
BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
Most students at the University of Kansas are familiar with sites around campus such as Potter Lake and the Campanile. But few students have ventured to the University's wilder side: the Field Station and Ecological Reserves. Last month, a 160-acre plot was added to the nature reserve.
would be protected for future generations.
The new Suzanne Ecke McColl Nature Reserve is part of the 3,404 acres set aside for research, teaching and conservation. According to an Oct. 1 KU press release, much of Douglas County used to be covered by a tallgrass prairie, but today less than 1 percent of the county's prairie remains. Private donors funded the land purchase to ensure the prairie
Berry Clemens, project coordinator for Kansas Applied Remote Sensing, said she was excited by the many opportunities the new land would offer.
"There will be several good demonstrations of ecological conservation that we hope can be used in the classrooms at KU." Clemens said.
The KU Endowment Association is raising money to complete several projects for the new plot. According to the same press release, the site will include a hiking trail that connects to existing trails on the field station and a 1,200-foot-long handicapped accessible nature trail that will lead to an overlook 240 feet above the Kaw River Valley.
"Monev is being raised to expand
the trails and make them more accessible," said Lisa Scheller, senior editor for the KU Endowment Association. "There will be labels explaining the types of wildlife visitors will be looking at."
The press release said that a Monarch Watch waystation would also be constructed so that visitors can observe migrating butterflies. Gardens on the McColl reserve will feature wildflowers, as well as Native American and medicinal herbs.
Clemens also said that the reserve had areas rife with Kansas history.
"There is a 10-acre prairie that looks exactly like it was 200 years ago," she said. "I think a Native American history class could learn a lot from it."
— Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
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BUSINESS
Site sees increase in donors
BY RAMSEY COX
ramseyc@ku.edu
The nonprofit, microlending organization Kiva has experienced an overwhelming number of people providing funds for lending, thanks to former president Bill Clinton's latest book, "Giving," and "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Clinton featured Kiva as a way for volunteers to help small businesses in developing countries through the Internet.
Kiva, founded in San Francisco in late 2004, allows lenders to select entrepreneurs on its Web site and use a credit card to loan them money. Kiva transfers funds to local partners, which are nongovernmental organization workers at microfinance institutions, who then disburse the loans to each qualified borrower. Kiva's local partners collect repayments and e-mail updates to lenders about the progress of the businesses to which they loaned the funds. As the businesses succeed, funds are returned to lenders, who can then choose to re-loan to another business or withdraw the funds.
After Clinton and the founders of Kiva, Matt and Jessica Flannery.
appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last month, the Kiva's Web site posted a message stating that this year, for the first time, every business that applied had been funded. Kiva has loaned more than $12.6 million, and 99.6 per-
April about the organization.
"I'm happy to see the recent public," Bryson said. "I hope this new demand will bring more microlending organizations out."
Kiva allows donors to lend as little as $25 to a specific entrepreneur
People in Lawrence have joined the organization
a developing country. These microloans are then used by the small business owners to lift themselves out of poverty with their own business models.
"I loan because I believe everyone in the world deserves the opportunity to succeed and improve their lives."
"I'm happy to see the recent publicity. I hope this new demand will bring more microlending organizations out."
SAM SNYDER KU alumnus
and have loaned thousands of dollars to businesses in countries such as Mexico, Togo and Cambodia.
STEPHANIE BRYSON
Project coordinator
School of Social Welfare
Sam Snyder,
"My husband and I narrow the choices down to three people," said Cheryl Holmes, a University project manager for the School of Social Welfare. "We then read each person's story to our 6-year-old son, talking about the area of the world
cent of the loans have been repaid. Its donor membership has grown from 75,000 in June to more than 127,000 today.
Kiva has funded 17,000 loans today compared with the seven it started with in March 2005.
Snyder has lent mostly to female borrowers after reading Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus' book "Banker to the Poor." Yunus, who developed the concept of microlending in the 1970s, said women are more likely than men
Stephanie Bryson, a university of Kansas project coordinator of children's mental health for the School of Social Welfare, joined Kiva after seeing a PBS "Frontline" special in
the person is from and what he or she wants to do with the loan. We then make a selection as a family"
a Motorola technician and 2006 University graduate, has loaned to 703 people, totaling at least $17,575, since he joined in January 2006.
"I loan because I believe everyone in the world deserves the opportunity to succeed and improve their lives and their communities," Snyder said.
to repay loans, save money and support their families.
Small business owners in poor countries need capital, but because of a lack of collateral and credit history they are unable to acquire loans from traditional or formal banking systems. Nongovernmental organizations and private institutions such as Kiva supply microloans to these people in need.
"When a person lives in poverty due to either unemployment or under-employment, this person will search for opportunities to make a living," said Rubana Mahjabeen, a University economics lecturer. "Microcredit gives these people an opportunity to pursue that goal. So, these people will try to make the best use of this loan."
Grace Ayaa, whose peanut butter business received a microloan through Kiva, lives in Uganda where most people work in a local rock quarry for $1 a day. Her loan allowed her to buy a refrigerator and packing material, increasing her peanut butter production.
Ayaa's loan from Kiva benefits not only her and her family but others in her town. According to Kiva's Web site, www.kiva.org, other villagers have decided to start their own businesses with microloans from Kiva after seeing Ayaa's success. Their business profiles are available on Kiva's Web site.
— Edited by Amelia Freidline
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