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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005
CAMPUS
Professor earns three awards in multicultural education
A University of Kansas professor was recently honored for his work in multicultural education.
Cornel Pewwardy, associate professor of education, received three awards this month. One was from the American Educational Research Association, which named him the 2005 Scholars of Color Distinguished Scholar, a national honor, according to a news release from the University of Kansas.
Student Senate presented Peewardy with the 2005 Big 12 Outstanding American Indian Faculty Member of the Year and the 2005 Anthony Daniels Award for Leadership and Achievement in Multicultural Education on April 16.
"We're very pleased and happy with him and his accomplishments in his profession," said Fred Rodriguez, interim dean in the School of Education.
Pewewardy's research addresses educational problems found in American Indian classrooms. He has heritage in both the Comanche and Kiowa nations.
— Joshua Bickel
CNN News anchor to lecture Monday at Kansas Union
CNN News anchor Anderson Cooper will lecture at the Kansas Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Monday. Cooper will come to the University from Rome where he has been covering the selection of the pope.
Each year Student Union Activities and Student Senate invite prominent national figures to the University to discuss current public issues.
The lecture is free with a KUID; it is $5 for non-students.
Jason Shaad
Queers and Allies will hold the 12th annual Brown Bag Drag at noon today in front of the Kansas Union.
Queers and Allies concludes week with Brown Bag Drag
Brown Bag Drag, which is part of Queers and Allies' Pride Week, is a drag show where men dress like women in a fashion and talent show setting.
Drag shows sometimes feature transgendered women.
According to wikipedia.org, in the homosexual community, drag queens often serve as official or unofficial spokespersons, fundraisers or community leaders.
It is free and open to the public.
'Hedwig' to be performed live
ENTERTAINMENT
NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Rock 'n' roll musical about transgendered singer ends Pride Week
For the conclusion of Gay Pride Week, a transgender woman with a botched sex-change operation will belt rock 'n' roll from the bottom of her "angry inch."
The off-Broadway musical, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," will be performed tonight and tomorrow at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
"Hedwig" tells the story of a man who got a sex change to marry a soldier.
The operation goes awry, and
leaves Hedwig with an inch-long penis.
Hedwig then forms his own band and tries to chase down his ex-flame.
To complicate matters, rock star and ex-lover Tommy Gnosis leaves him and takes all of his songs.
This musical brings two groups together: rockers and musical theatre lovers, said Barbara Eubanks, coproducer.
"It has poignant theatre moments interspersed with great rock music," Eubanks said.
There is some trouble bringing the two together, said Steven Eubanks, director of the musical.
"It's interesting to attract theatre audience to a hard rock show and hard rock lovers to come to a theatre show," he said. "It's a throwback to David Bowie and the glam rock era but the audience has to invest a lot of time into the monologues."
Thanks to word of mouth,
"Hedwig" is gaining a cult following
much like another gender-bending
show, "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Eubanks said.
This event is co-sponsored by Oueers and Allies.
"A lot of that interest came from the group," Eubank said. "They have been getting a lot of buzz for
us."
The musical, which made its debut in 1998, was adapted into a film in 2001 and won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.
"This show is more personalized for Lawrence," she said. "There's adlibbing and Hedwig goes into the audience."
There are more songs in the stage version of Hedwig than in the movie, Eubank said.
audiennes are 8 and 11:30 tonight and 11:30 tomorrow night. Tickets cost $15.
Edited by Kendall Dix
The beat of the East
Takuya Jay Inoue, Countryside graduate student, plays the drums on Wescoe Beach yesterday afternoon. Inoue played for the Asian Student Union's Asian Week 2005.
Frin Droste/KANSAN
STATE
Governor signs bill to increase public schools spending
TOPEKA — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed budget legislation yesterday despite what she said was a "highly disturbing" education funding provision threatening to create future financial problems.
She continued criticizing a plan pushed through the Legislature by Republican leaders that would increase annual spending on public schools by $127 million.
Republican leaders wanted to increase aid to schools without increasing taxes to meet a Kansas Supreme Court mandate. Sebelius and her fellow Democrats contend their plan, relying on existing revenues and tapping the state's cash reserves, is fiscally irresponsible.
Otherwise, much of the budget bill followed Sebelius' spending recommendations, so much that the governor didn't veto any line items.
"There is one major and highly disturbing revision," Sebelius said in a statement, referring to the education funding plan.
She added: "I commend the Legislature for working with me to restore fiscal order to state government. Unfortunately, we may well be at the high water mark of this restoration."
Including the education plan, the bill Sebelius signed would increase spending in fiscal 2006 by $433 million, or about 4 percent.
Work on the fiscal 2006 budget isn't complete. Legislators still must consider one last spending bill after they reconvene Wednesday.
The House Appropriations Committee already has finished its version of the bill, a measure that would add about $105 million to the fiscal 2006 budget.
— John Hanna/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS