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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 12, 1994
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Jennie Zeiner/ KANSAN
Competitors in the first River Cup Mountain Bike race ride over logs on the Lawrence River Trails. Jeff Kress, co-organizer of the point-based event, said he thought attendance would increase as the series continued.
Amateur mountain bikers compete in race series
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
After a 30-mile bike ride yesterday,
Ian Kirby hurt all over.
But Kirby, Lenexa junior, was not riding for recreation. He was competing in the first River Cup Mountain Bike Race Series at the Lawrence River Trails in North Lawrence. Kirby won the highlighted race, finishing the course in 1 hour and 52 minutes.
"The constant speed is a challenge," Kirby said, "The course looks easier than it actually is."
Jeff Kress, Orange, Calif., graduate student, and Jan Schroeder, Huntington Beach, Calif., graduate student, organized the races. Kress and Schroeder drew their inspiration from California races in which they had participated.
"I was a participant in an amateur race series in California," Kress said, "When I moved to Lawrence a year ago, I thought Kansas needed a race based on points."
Yesterday's race was the first in a series that will continue Oct. 2 and Oct. 23.
The series is based on points earned at each race. The top 20 finishers of each race will earn points. The first-place winner receives 20 points, and the 20th-place winner receives one point. The final race will be worth double points to break ties or to allow bikers to make up for missed races.
After the three races, the top five winners in each category will win cash prizes, Kress said. The categories include beginners, masters, veterans and experts.
The event was sponsored by KLZR. Warner Lester, sales manager for the radio station, said that the station was excited to sponsor the event.
"We are expecting more for the next two races," Kress said, "I think the Chiefs game hurt attendance."
yesterday's race.
Kress said about 175 people entered
"Jeff Kress came to us and asked the Lazer to co-present the event with him," Lewis said. "We've had a good response so far."
Lewis said that the Lazer decided to sponsor the event because of the growing popularity of mountain bike racing.
"Mountain bikes have always had a sort of cult following," Lewis said, "And that interest is growing."
Anyone interested in entering the series can call Kress or Schroeder at 842-5306.
Student Senate pushes service
Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night that will encourage student organizations to get out in the community and participate in community service work.
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
A resolution asks for public works
The resolution, which was written by Ken Martin, holdover senator, was designed to get student groups more involved in the Lawrence community. He said that he hoped the resolution would show the importance of service work.
"It's important for every student to
Martin said the resolution holds closely with the Student Senate preamble. It states that the role of senate is to enhance the learning experience of KU students in and out of the classroom and strengthen the ties between the University and the community.
try to better the community," Martin said. "There are so many different things students can do to help Lawrence."
Many community groups find it important that student groups assist in programs.
"It's essential," said Steve Anderson, unit director of the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club.
He said student groups had helped the Boys and Girls Club in the last year with sports tournaments, an alcohol awareness seminar, and helping celebrate Kwanzaa, an annual celebration of the African-American family.
"Ithelps kids see the community in a different light when students help us," he said. Anderson said that kids at the club benefit a lot by getting to interact with college students.
But the pay-off for community service work is not only for the community, said Kisa Wheaton, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, a program run by Student Senate.
"Volunteer programs bring student
organizations together," Wheaton said. The projects teach organizations to work effectively in reaching a common goal. She said that it also helps organizations in problem solving and improving internal communication.
The original version of the resolution, which was voted down, would have required that all student organizations that receive financial support from student senate perform community service. For every $100 an organization received, the organization would have had to perform one hour of community service.
The idea behind the original resolution was that student organizations would be able to guarantee to the Senate that some sort of benefit would be gained by their financing.
Martin said often times events and programs that were funded by Student Senate didn't give as much beneficial value to the student and local community.
Groups that volunteer for public service projects will be directed by the Center for Community Outreach.
Native-American art sold at market
Indian art market weaves education with work, fun
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Amy Solt / KANRAN
Before Walter Alhaita played his flute song, he told the crowd a story about a Kiwanan man wandering in the woods, wondering how he could win the heart of the most beautiful woman in the village.
The Kiowan, who was too poor to pay the woman's dowry, found his answer in the form of a hollowed-out branch. As the wind blew, it moved through the branch, creating a musical note. He broke off the branch and took it back to his village, where he used the newly created flute to charm the woman.
A dancer performs at the Haskell Indian Craft Market at Haskell Indian Nations University. Dancing was just one of the activities offered Saturday afternoon at the market, which also included included craft booths and food.
Ahhaity, Haskell student senate president, said the Kiowans have used the flute in courtship since then.
"Sure enough, that woman became his first wife," Ahahtaytie said, then smiled as the crowd laughed at the mention of Kiowans' polygamy. "You know how Kiowans are."
The crowd was part of the estimated 15,000 to 20,000 who attended this weekend's Haskell Indian Art Market at Haskell Indian Nations University. About 130 Native-American artists from around the nation came to sell their paintings, weavings, blankets and sculptures. There were also shows with flutes, traditional singing and dancing from different nations and plays acted out by Haskell students.
No single theme dominated the market. In one booth, an artist worked turquoise and opal into jewelry in a Zuni Pueblo nation technique called channel inlay. In the next, an artist displayed ceremonial tomahawks and arrow quivers made from beaver fur. And if customers at either booth had turned around, they might have seen performers painted black and white demonstrating an Apache spirit dance.
The art market is part of the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, a sixweek, Lawrence event that begins
with the market and features displays at the KU Museum of Anthropology and the Spencer Museum of Art, said Maria Martin, co-coordinator of the show. She said the show was designed to demonstrate the culture of Midwestern Native Americans.
"We realized we had this wealth right here," said Martin, assistant director of the museum of anthropology.
The market came about as an afterthought, Martin said. She said it was first held six years ago to give Native-American artists who came to Lawrence a chance to make money while displaying their exhibits. The first market had 45 booths and drew 3,000 people.
Now it draws such artists as Mavis Doering, whose woven baskets can be seen in the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art.
"I like to shape my baskets like pottery shapes," said Doering, a Cherokee whose baskets sell between $200 and $1,000. "With the Cherokee, the shape indicates the purpose. But I like to shape them in individual styles."
Barbara McKinney-Elston, who is also known by the Kickapoo name Pahponee, or Snow Woman, displayed glazed pottery with amber hues and pictographs etched into their surfaces nearby.
"I like to know where my pottery goes," said Pahponee, who handed out her telephone number to customers. "I like to know what they think of it and whether they're pleased by it."
Maurus Chino, an Acoma Pueblo whose art ranged from eggshell thin pottery to oil landscapes of northern New Mexico, said the education he received from Haskell more than 20 years ago helped his art. The school was called Haskell Indian Junior College when he was graduated in 1971 as a technical craftsman.
Chino said interest in Native-American art and culture had picked up in the past 20 years, but that could change
"It goes in cycles," Chino said. "In the '60s and '70s, it wasn't cool to be Indian. Now everybody wants to claim Indian blood. It'll probably switch back sometime soon."
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