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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2007
>> INVOLVEMENT
Andrew Wacker/KANSAN
A crowd assembled to dance to the beat of amateur african drum group KJADDE on Wednesday afternoon. The group performed a free concert and invited onlookers to dance along.
Drum group promotes African culture
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Khalid El-Hassan sat on the steps in front of Wescoe Hall Wednesday afternoon as the Kansas University Drumming and Dancing Ensemble began to play.
His foot started to tap and then he started to sway back and forth. He stood and started to shuffle in a fluid motion to the beat. As the drums intensified, El-Hassan began turning in small circles, his feet hitting the ground in unison with each pound of the drums.
He turned to the small crowd that had gathered at the drum circle to
invite the audience to join in the dance. Several people took him up on the offer and soon the whole crowd was involved. The people who remained seated or standing were tapping their feet, and one man was shaking a cup of ice to the rhythm of the song.
KUADDE formed last spring to promote Africa's talent and culture, and to interest students in learning more about Africa.
The free concert was put together to kick off the fall semester for the Kansas African Studies Center. El-Hassan, associate director of the center, helped organize the event to announce the center's activities and to promote the program. He said that Africans have a
saying about drumming.
"If you can walk, you can dance, and if you can talk, then you can sing. But, drumming you have to learn." El-Hassan said.
KUADDE has been practicing together all summer to prepare for upcoming events this semester. El-Hassan said KUADDE promotes diversity on campus. The group itself has a diverse make-up: some are graduate students, some are undergraduate, some are non-traditional students with grown children, some are from Africa and some are from Kansas.
Karimi Kanga, Nairoi Kenya, senior, dances with the group. She
said KUADDE gives her a sense of community and belonging.
"Coming as an international student is a major culture shock," Kanga said. "The dancing gives you something from Africa you need so much. It's a group that just brings us together."
The free concert will continue from noon to 1 p.m. today on Wescoe Beach. KUADDE will also collaborate with the Spencer Museum of Art for a tailgating party on September 15. More information about the group can be found at www.kasc.ku.edu.
— Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
CRIME
Salesmen solicit fake subscriptions
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
Becky Getman thought the two men standing in her doorway were
just students wanting to introduce themselves.
They were not.
"We had just had a get-to-know everyone activity," said Getman, a St. Louis sophomore.
"I thought they were from my floor."
They were not.
The two men reportedly went to Templin and Lewis Residence Halls Tuesday a fternoon and evening attempting to sell magazine subscriptions to
Langtry and Kameter then called police and filed a non-criminal offense report. When an officer arrived, he called the number on the receipt and the man who answered said the number was for
solicitation
- Solicitation is not allowed at any University Housing Facility.
- Sollicitors on campus must have a license from the city of Lawrence and permission from the Provost.
Students should report any suspicious activities.
Source: KU Public Safety Office
students. But according to a release from the KU Public Safety Office, the company the two men claimed to represent did not exist.
Getman and her roommates turned the men away. Other students did not.
About 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, two white males described as about 25-years-old reportedly arrived at Elise Langry and Aryn Kamerer's room on the fifth floor of Lewis Hall. Langry and Kamerer bought a $4 subscription, each paying $20. They said the men gave them a receipt with the name Element Sales on it, a St. Joseph, Mo, address and a phone number.
Soon after they bought the subscription, Langtry and Kramer heard someone else tried to contact the phone number on the receipt, and it was a private number. Langtry and Kamerer went to the residence hall's lobby and found the men who sold the magazines. They demanded a refund. The men obliged.
his mother's cell phone, according to the report. The officer said the woman knew nothing about Element Sales. St. Joseph police said the address on the receipt wasn't a "good" address, according to the report.
Two students in Templin Hall also filed reports with the KU Office of Public Safety. Getman didn't file a report but said the men tried to sell her
magazines. She described an experience similar to the one Langtry and Kamerer filed in their report. Getman also said the men told her that they were selling magazines to earn a trip to Europe. She said men tried to sell her magazines last year using the same story. Getman thought those men were involved in the same plan as the ones from Tuesday.
"They were the smooth-talking salesman type," Getman said. "If you're not used to it, it could be tough to turn them down."
Signs in Templin and Lewis are stationed at the front desks warning students to report anything about people selling magazines. The Department of Student Housing prohibits soliciting in the residence halls. The KU Public Safety Office warned students that by signing up for these deals they could be giving the solicitor everything needed for identity theft.
— Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
Companies, parents wonder what's next
TOY RECALLS
BY ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Now that toy companies have issued recalls for millions of Chinese-made toys that are either tainted with lead or otherwise hazardous to children, they are scrambling to figure out what to do with them.
Mattel Inc., which on Tuesday
recalled about 19 million toys worldwide, said it was working on a "responsible approach" but could not provide details.
Amid the lack of clarity, many parents are confused about how to dispose of the toys. That may mean many of them will end up in the trash and eventually in landfills, where they could possibly leach toxins into the groundwater.
In Nashville, Tenn., Courtney Wilson discovered she had some recalled Polly Pocket dolls with magnets from Mattel, and she's decided to throw them out. Meanwhile, another parent, Jennifer Mulligan of Franklin, Tenn., is making a different choice: she plans to take the recalled dolls back to the store.
She added: "If we did have an affected toy, I'd see it as lesson for her. ... If there was something wrong with the toy, it's up to the store to replace it with another toy."
All parents know at this point is that they need to get them out of their kids' toy chests.
The most alarming has been the recall of toys covered with lead-based paint. Children who ingest lead-laced paint can suffer brain damage, and improper disposal of lead-based paint can damage the environment.
The Mattel recall is the latest in a slew of recalls involving more than 10 million toys since June in the U.S. alone.
Mattel's recalls cover several hundred thousand "Sarge" vehicles and almost a million toys from its Fisher-Price line, including the Sesame Street and Nickelodeon characters.
Mulligan said that her 6-year-old daughter "probably has about every Polly Pocket ever made."
Its recalls follow the recall of 1.5 million items from RC2 Corp's Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toy line, announced in June.
Many retailers like Wal-Mart are offering the option of returning the recalled toys to stores where they are sent back to the makers, but they prefer shoppers sending them back to manufacturers in packaging that the maker provides in exchange for a refund.
"Certainly, there is a significant expense to manage a recall," said Eric Johnson, professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. "This is a big headache."
Lead-painted toys fall under the category of products that would need to be destroyed or properly disposed of, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C.
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