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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 26, 1991
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Sue Ask. Lawrence. demonstrates lower-body strength. which dives women an edge in self-defense, on Brian Snow of Eudora.
Seminar shows self-defense methods
By Melissa Rodgers
About 25 people watched as others were thrown, flown or dropped in a demonstration of self-defense techniques.
The group watched Ben Fritzel, a Lawrence karate and self-defense teacher, and his students demonstrated self-defense techniques for the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center presentation, "Women and Self-Defense," at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Women can be adept at self-defense because they have the lower-body strength required for the maneuvers.
He showed that women could stop an assault by taking advantage of the attacker's momentum and timing.
Fritzel, a fourth-degree black belt, teaches karate and self-defense at Baldwin City High School and
He and his students demonstrated how to twist trisks, deliver blows to the arm and smash a locked owl on his hand.
One situation simulated a couple on a date. The man forced himself on his date, but the woman, by simply grabbing his wrist and forcing his palm down on her hand, could she break his wrist by applying more pressure.
"Rapists are looking for weaklings or the meek
wrongmen to call the cops and turn and fight back."
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Learning self-defense is a matter of timing, which can help eliminate an attack and provide enough room to react.
Self-defense might stop a date rape, Fritzel said.
*However, two or three years of karate would be required to repel a violent attack.* he said.
She said she was worried about walking on campus at night.
Sarah Groh, Wathena junior, said she attended the seminar to learn self-defense techniques.
David Benintedi, St. John senior and a karate student, said he came with his girlfriend to the exhibition.
"It seems very practical although it is not an aggressive style of karate." he said.
Barbara Ballard, director of the resource center, said students could take care of themselves in cer- tain settings.
Sherril Robinson, a graduate assistant at the resource center, said the center planned to sponsor a self-defense class taught by Fritzel in the next few weeks.
Koran guides Muslim approach to life, speaker says
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Bv Rochelle Olson
The Koran is the text that relays the message of the creator to Muslims, said the speaker, Hafiz Ijaz Mian. The Koran was a book written by the Walpuy Boeim at the Kansaus Anglo-
Nothing is above God and everything is equal according to the Koran, a visiting speaker from England said last night.
Mian, who studied the Koran for 4/2 years in Saudi Arabia; spoke about Islam and its history.
The first thing a Muslim says in the morning is "Allah (God) is the great savior."
a balanced approach to life.
He said praising God gave Muslims
In the Koran, God says that he created everything equally. Mian said.
He said that God told man in the Koran, "You are a part of total creation and you should follow my instruction."
God chooses what a man should be, Mian said.
He said that God had given all people goodness and badness and that these traits manifested in needs and desires.
"Desire can lead to greed," Mian said.
"The needs are essential."
In the Koran, Godsassthat youhaveto control your desires and fulfill your needs, Mian said.
He said that Muslims must always make sure that their minds were clear.
the directions of God in a situation," Mian said.
"The mind is to be used to understand
Mian said that prejudice and jealousy were the two worst diseases of the heart.
Therefore, a Muslim should not drink alcohol or anything that would cause drowsiness or keep the brain from functioning normally, be said.
If a human being is Muslim and obeys the Koran, he will not suffer these diseases, he said.
It also is unlawful in the Koran to use one's hands against another.
"You can't slap anyone," he said. "It is not your right."
But the worst offenses according to the Koran are backstabbing and falsely accusing others. Mian said.
reason for a Muslim to go to hell.
The Koran also says that a man and woman should be married if they are to marry.
Med Center looks at adopting mandatory AIDS testing policy
Mian said it also shows the responsibility of the husband to provide food, clothing and shelter.
He said backstabbing was a sufficient
Hamed Ghazali, president of the Islamic center of Lawrence, said the
The recent controversy concerning a young Florida woman who contracted AIDS from her dentist has sparked public concern about whether AIDS testing should be mandatory for health-care workers.
By Kerrie Gottschalk Kansan staff writer
He said he thought that a Muslim information about Islam would be helpful.
They are not preaching, Ghazali said.
KU medical officials are concerned about the issue, but they are acting cautiously.
"If you look at the world and see how Islam is tied to world events, it is very helpful for people to have some knowledge of the background of Islam," Ghazieli said.
The University of Kansas Medical Center staff and administrators are carefully considering the recommendations released by the Center for Disabilities, Nick Robards, assistant director of personnel services at the Med Center.
"At this time we are not requiring any mandatory testing," he said.
The CDCreport recommends guidelines to reduce a patient's risk of contracting AIDS from a health-care worker.
The recommendations suggest that health care workers who perform invasive surgery procedures be tested for AIDS. They also suggest that an infected worker stop performing exposure-prone procedures.
"We are struggling with the definitions of the CDChas released, and we are considering how those definitions apply to our environment." Robards
The CDC now is awaiting reactions from health-care officials.
Robards said there was more to the issue than just developing a single AIDS-testing policy for health-care workers.
He said the policy was not just for AIDS but included any infectious disease a worker might contract.
"AIDS poses less of a risk to a patient than any other infectious disease," Robards said.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said Watkins did not have an AIDS-testing policy for its health workers.
He said Watkins did not perform invasive surgical procedures like the Med Center did.
However, all health workers at Watkins use universal precautions with every patient, he said.
said.
Watkins also uses disposable products to decrease the risk of spreading infection, Yockey said.
Universal precautions require that a worker wear gloves and mask when bodily fluids are involved.
Doctors from New York Medical Hospital calculated the the odds are 1-in-21 million that a patient would contract AIDS from a doctor or nurse.
Despite the odds, AIDS testing policies need to be discussed, Robards said.
He said that legal and ethical issues also were involved in deciding on a policy and that those issues further clouded the issue.
"Testing is an issue we have not yet discussed. We are waiting for further clarification from the CDC. We also need to review the medical and medical experts." Robards said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Artist draws images from life experiences
Michelle Betts Special to the Kansan
Roger Shimomura comes from a family of poets and artists, but he is the first to explore the Japanese-Ameri- experience through performance art.
"I was interested in real time, linear time," said Shimamura, professor of art and design, to about 100 people yesterday in Downs Auditorium.
"Istudied film at Syracuse in graduate school, and I was torn between filmmaking and being a painter," he said.
He now is exploring performance art.
As part of the Asian-American festival, Shimomura mournured video excerpts from his first works of performance work, "The Last Sense" story.
Shimamura's great-great-grandfather was a poet and painter in the 1850s. His grandmother emigrated to Tokyo in 1807 and settled in Seattle.
Shimomura based his first work of performance art, "Seven Kabuki Plays," on excerpts from his grand-mother's diary.
Kabuki, traditional Japanese drama, is characterized by formal music dance and props.
The plays used images from six of his own paintings, which also were based on his grandmother's diary. The seventh play is a montage of images and symbols presented in the first six plays.
Shimomura uses larger-than-life props, such as barbed wire and big-screen televisions and "sound-rhyme embellishments," in which the performers' actions are emphasized by music.
However, he breaks from traditional kabuki by using women for every role. Usually, men play every role.
Shimomura also uses images of comic book characters, such as Superman, and modern Japanese and U.S. music to symbolize the Japanese-American experiences described by his grandmother.
He said the performance in "Seven Kabuki Plays" dramatized the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and his grandmother's entrance into a Japanese-American prisoner camp in the United States, where she spent Christmas 1942.
In the final play, Shimomura assembles a montage of images from the previous plays.
"I conceptualized the whole piece in terms of music." Shimomura said. "Then it was written in a script.
On stage he uses the image of a fingerprint to symbolize the required fingerprint registration of Japanese-Americans in 1942. An actress dressed as Superman wrapped the stage, setas a war camp, in barbed wire, symbolizing the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
"It was a case of knowing that it was right when I saw it."
Shimouma also showed parts of his works "Trans-Siberian Excerpts" and "California Sushi." These plays meshed elements of Japanese culture such as kimonos, rice and 'buruaku'. Japanese puppet drama, with themes familiar to Japanese and U.S. citizens, such as family and war.
"The Last Sansel史" is a history of the Japanese-Americans in his family: his grandparents, the generation that lived in the camo and himself
The complete play should open in spring 1993 at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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