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The seventh annual Pearson Lawn RockA-Thon took place Saturday. The event featured four local bands, free food
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The Jayhawks break their losing streak this weekend, sweeping the Red Raiders in Lubbock Texas.
The Dole Institute of Politics honors former Senator Howard Bakerm, the fourth recipient of the Dole Leadership Prize.
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Vintage Van, among other local fashion depots, showcases its apparel in a flashy extravaganza of style and color. Tickets were a $10 donation to promote clean water in Kansas.
Fashion funds clean water
Show features funky designs from both coasts to support cause
BY JOE HUNT
silver sweaters and dental headgear to beach attire and throwback swimsuits during the Aveda Earth Day Fashion Show. The show was organized by Lada Salon and Spa, 4931 W. Sixth St., to raise money for the Clean Water Fund, which helps to preserve lakes and rivers.
Volunteers of all ages strutted down the runway Saturday night in fashions ranging from metallic
Roughly 100 volunteers arrived at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., at 8 a.m. to model in the show. It took all day for seven Lada stylists to do the models' hair and makeup.
More than 600 people roared and cheered for friends and family as the
models walked down the runway. Some of the models laughed and waved at friends, while others were serious.
Many of the models were KU students, and four talent scouts attended the show to find potential professional models. The four scouts pledged to award $1,400 to one model.
Ryan Mathisen, Highlands Ranch, Colo., senior, said he hoped to be noticed by a scout. Mathisen had mod-
RED BALLOON
Exhibit highlights local art
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Whit Bones, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore and curator for the show, said artists were given two months to produce a piece for the show.
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BY BETHANY BUNCH
Fresh Produce, a one-night, free art show and party, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. in Teller's Third Floor Gallery, 746 Massachusetts St.
'I asked the artists to plant the seed and now we are waiting to
Twenty-one local artists will display their art tonight in an exhibit called Fresh Produce.
It is a product of an organization called Red Balloon, which organizes four art events in Lawrence each year. The show features art by current and former KU students.
see what kind of flowers blossom" Bones said.
Sara McManus, KU alumna and one of the show's organizers said the show was organized by and showcased the art of current and former KU students.
"We are motivated young people making things happen," McManus said. "We aren't going to wait for anyone to do it for us, so we are doing it for ourselves."
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The theme of the art show is progressive and fresh or new art. Yankey submitted two paintings shed been working on in the two-
One contributing artist, KU alumna Lindsey Yankey, said this was her first time participating in an art exhibit.
Kansan staff writer Bethany Bunch can be contacted at bbunch@kansan.com.
month period.
"My paintings are fresh because they are continually developing from one to the next, so in this sense they are fresh," she said. "At least to me." It was also McManus' first time to have art in a show. Her piece for the show focused on changing the way Southern plantations in the Civil War era were depicted.
"Through my work I try to interrupt this reformulation of history and commemorate the forgotten peoples who were enslaved," McManus said.
VIRGINIA TECH REMEMBRANCE
KU students stay positive
Good deeds honor shooting victims
BY KATY BLAIR
KU students have found a way to stay positive in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting
R a b b i Z a l m a n Tiechtel, of the Chabad Jewish Center, started a good deed pledge on the center's Web site. www.jewishku.com/vtech, for students to direct
for students to fill in what they would like to dedicate in honor of Virginia Tech victims. The student can post their pledge for others to see or keep their good deed pri-
"It makes people look at an ugly, disastrous event and realize how everything in their life can be channeled in the opposite direction."
ZALMAN TIECHTEL
Rabbi
their negative feelings about last week's violence into positive action. Tiechtel said a Jewish custom was to perform a good deed when a person dies.
the pledge page includes a form
vate.
"It makes people look at an ugly, disastrous event and realize how everything in their life can be channeled in the opposite direction," Tiechtel said of the pledge site.
Tiechtel said many students came to him seeking guidance and comfort after hearing of the Virginia Tech shooting. The stu-
LEO CENTER
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Luke Henry, Lawrence junior, shoots a free throw at the Leo Center's free-throw competition organized by Christian Moody. The event raised money to benefit a diabetes fund.
Free-throw contest to benefit diabetics
BY KYLE CARTER
Nearly one hundred people participated in a free-throw contest organized by Christian Moody last weekend at the Lawrence Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. The event benefited the Leo Center, One Riverfront Plaza, Suite 100, where Moody serves as the development director.
Joe Reitz, chief executive officer of the Leo Center, said the proceeds would go to a new program to help uninsured diabetes patients. The program is designed to treat the center's 150-plus patients that suffer from diabetes by providing
healthy food, test strips to gauge their blood sugar levels and opportunities for regular exercise.
Reitz said the program cost $80,000 for the first year. Two grants awarded to the medical clinic cover $17,500 of the cost, and Reitz said he would continue to apply for more. At $20 an entrant, the free-throw contest raised about $2,000 for the program.
Reitz said diabetes care for uninsured patients was an issue in need of attention.
"If you're a person that's living on the street, it's hard enough to
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