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Hilary Kelman, Shawnee senior, practices her part as Maire in the Irish drama "Translations". The play takes place in rural Ireland in the 1800s when British rule threatens local tradition and a romance blooms between a village girl and a british soldier.
New play features Irish twist
The theater department will take a look back in history with the opening of "Translations" this weekend. The show is set in 1833 Northern Ireland and depicts how the Irish dealt with life under British rule.
Doug Weaver, a KU theater alumnus and director of the show, said "Translations" also dealt with love in addition to politics. "Translations" opens at 7:30 tonight in Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall.
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Six-year-old students Kassidie Womack and Olivia Percich dance during a game of musical chairs at Cordley Elementary School on Thursday. The Hispanic American Leadership Organization sponsored the event for Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Groups promote Hispanic Heritage Month
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Crystal Viurquez stood in a Cordley Elementary classroom surrounded by a circle of chairs and about 20 boisterous children. Viurquez was demonstrating basic salsa steps for a round of dancing musical chairs.
Virquez, Garden City senior, along with several members of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, worked with the Boys and Girls Club at Cordley Elementary
School to have the first Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at the school on Thursday. HALO volunteers set up four classroom stations for the students: salsa and musical chairs, Spanish 101, egg decorating and Loteria, or Mexican bingo. The celebration ended with a piñata.
"It's fun exposing this to kids not very familiar with Latin culture and music and teaching them how to dance," Viurquez said.
Chris Muñoz, Topeka junior, works with both the Boys and Girls Club and HALO. He said that he noticed the Boys and Girls Club always had a good time at Black History
Month celebrations. Muñoz worked to coordinate between HALO and the Boys and Girls Club to create the celebration.
Muñoz said it was a good opportunity for the kids to experience another culture and that one of HALO's goals was to increase exposure to their culture.
Delores Pitchlyn, Kansas City, Kan., junior, works for the Boys and Girls Club. She said the students were excited about the celebration.
"I think it's a really good opportunity for the kids to learn about an entirely different culture and what kids their age do in the
Hispanic culture," Pitchlyn said.
Diego Lopez, Cordley fourth grader, said he enjoyed the celebration. Lopez, whose parents are both from Mexico, said he was looking forward to helping his classmates learn Spanish. When his group went to the Spanish 101 station, Lopez went to the front of the classroom and helped Jesus Castillo, Liberal senior, and Ruby Montoya, Garden City junior, teach the students some basic Spanish words like please and thank you.
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Board of Regents ponders academic year abridgment
Student body president Hannah Love met last week with the Board of Regents in Topeka to discuss decreasing the number of required class days for Kansas institutions.
The Board of Regents currently requires state universities to hold 150 days of class in an academic year, not including finals week.
Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support, said that the KU administration would follow the guidelines mandated by the Board of Regents.
Love said that the current calendar was more conducive to a K-12 system than a college system and the new would give students a longer summer break, allowing for better internship opportunities.
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Dinosaurs swim onto the screen
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"Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure" was filmed in parts of western Kansas and inside KU's Natural History Museum. The filmmakers consulted experts at KU to create realistic computer-generated images of several dinosaurs that once lived in what is now Kansas.
Prehistoric beasts that once roamed Mount Oread are the topic of a new 3-D documentary made by National Geographic.
The film opens today nationwide at IMAX and other special theaters.
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The Mosasaur hangs from the ceiling in the entryway greeting visitors to the Natural History Museum. The Mosasaur is a prehistoric reptile.
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