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UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Friday, April 26, 1996
3A
Tyler Wirken / KANSAN
Eric Alphrey, Milwaukee freshman; Lee Sheets, Wichita freshman; and Megan Millard, Cleveland freshman, draw on the sidewalk in front of Strong Hall. The chalk writing event, Remember Recess, was sponsored by the group Thelonious. The event took place yesterday on campus from Wescoe Hall to the Kansas Union.
Group chalks up new form of expression
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
T. S. David would have been proud. Even though the sidewalk pulpit now is quiet and he has departed this sinful world, students still are following his example.
Students expressed themselves in chalk from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. yesterday from in front of Wescoe Hall to the Kansas Union. The event was called Remember Recess and was sponsored by an organization, or disorganization, as they prefer to be called, named Thelonious.
The event is named Remember Recess because it was a time when people could do what was important to them, said J. Brown, Atlanta junior and Thelonious member, who declined to give his real name.
The event was designed to introduce the group, which advocates civic responsibility, to the community.
T. Monk, Brookville senior and Thelonious member who also declined to give his real name, named the group after jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
He was an innovator who challenged the status quo, Brown said. He had a personal radical style that became the standard.
Brown said the general notion of challenging the accepted rules was why the name was chosen for the group. It started as a group interested in challenging everyday perceptions that students use to define themselves.
"TV promotes this image that spring break, drinking and getting high are the most important things to students," Brown said. "We can't allow that image to define us."
Allowing people to write down what they dislike about their environment will hopefully inspire them to action, Brown said.
"Our ideas are on everybody's mind," T. Monk said. "We're trying to show people that they don't have to be passive receptors to what the University hands out."
Members of Thelonious handed out 260 jumbosized pieces of chalk so people could write down an expression of themselves, Monk said. Everyone who picks up a piece of chalk is a member of the group.
Women rally, demand safety
Marchers gather to fight violence
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Jeni Schmidt ascended the South Park gazebo staircase at 7 last night. As the sun set behind her, she approached the microphone.
She had come to speak in remembrance of her sister.
"Three years ago, my sister Stephanie was murdered in this state, Kansas," Schmidt said.
Her sister, Stephanie Schmidt, a 19-year-old Pittsburgh State University student, was raped and murdered by a repeat sex offender on July 2, 1993.
Since Stephanie's murder, Schmidt said she had traveled down a dark and lonely path.
Schmidt, Leawood junior, addressed an audience of about 200 people at the Womyn Take Back the Night March and Rally at 7 p.m. in South Park, 1141 Massachusetts St.
"As a survivor, I do not let pain destroy me," Schmidt said.
The women gathered to create a safe space and to demand safety in their homes, on the streets and on their campuses.
Baptiste said she had endured unmerciful beatings as a child, but eventually turned her father in to authorities when she learned he also was beating her brother and sister.
Men also gathered to support them and to contribute to their fight against violence against women.
Elizabeth Baptiste, Lawrence resident, also spoke at the rally.
"I called and reported my father to Child Protective Services," Baptiste said. "My family no longer speaks to me or has any contact with me, but I have no regrets."
"In saving my brother and sister, I saved myself."
Following the rally, the women walked through downtown to Watkins Park, 6th and Kentucky streets.
They formed a circle, chanted and lit candles as women described their experiences with rape, incest, domestic violence and sexual harassment.
At 9:30 p.m. they marched down Massachusetts Street back to South Park, chanting and carrying posters adorned with messages denouncing violence against women.
"I believe it's important that, as women, we support each other and are there for each other as we reclaim the streets together," she said.
Sara Collas, Cleveland graduate student, attended the march and rally.
Amy Pettle and Jennifer Haase-Divine, Lawrence residents, start on their way to Watkins Park, 6th and Kentucky streets, for the Womyn Take Back the Night march last night. Pettle carried her sign along Massachusetts Street to show her support for the war against violence against women.
Take Back the Night includes men
Men and women share experiences
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
At last night's Womyn Take Back the Night rally, one of the featured speakers gave the audience a warning: "Any perpetrator of women who is here — leave. You're not welcome."
No one left, man or woman. And even
though men weren't the focus of the rally, their presence was felt.
About 200 men who attended the rally, were there for support of women and to protest violence against women, children and violence in general.
Terry Heurter, Lake Quivira junior, said men were at the rally to do more than just support women.
"More or less, it's how we as men can live our lives to be a part of this movement, side by side with women," he said.
After the rally at South Park Gazebo,
about 20 of the men who attended stayed in South Park and participated in a men's circle.
In the circle, the men shared experiences they had with violence and discussed men's roles in ending violence towards women.
"We're here so we, as men, can understand that we are the oppressors," he said. "We need to understand this."
Kris Olsen, Overland Park junior, said he attended the event not only in support of women but also to understand men's role in the oppression of women.
"For me it's a personal issue to learn more about my actions — how my actions affect other people," he said.
After the women's and men's circles, the women left the men and marched downtown.
Heurter said that at last year's circle they discussed the reasons why men don't participate in the march.
"The march is for women," said Jason Schreiner, Wakeeney junior. "Time for their space. We don't want to take away from that."
Fulbright scholars celebrate anniversary
Program that began in 1946 encourages understanding
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Fulbright program is holding a reunion today at the Kansas Union.
About 75 Fulbright alumni and the 27 international Fulbright scholars at the University of Kansas will attend the reunion, said Hodgie Bricke, International Studies assistant director and reunion coordinator.
The program includes two panel discussions about international education and the Fulbright experience, a luncheon and a reception.
The Fulbright program, founded in 1946 by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, provides for academic exchange between the United States and several
other countries. The purpose is to increase the understanding of the people of the United States and other nations.
Students and faculty participating in the exchange are chosen on the basis of academic merit, maturity, adaptability, language skills and the significance of their proposal. Bricke said.
"It's very prestigious to have a Fulbright." she said.
Selected students and faculty are awarded the money needed for their studies.
About 900 international students have come to the University as Fulbright Scholars since the program began at the University in the early 1950s.
The program also has sent more than 300 KU students and faculty members abroad.
Guanghuil Chim, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, graduate student and Fulbright scholar, said the program had made a difference in his life.
"In Cambodia, I would never have thought it possible to pursue this high-level education," Chim said. "It's impossible to do graduate studies there."
Chim also said the education at the University taught him to think in a new manner.
Instead of just accepting professors' teachings as he would in Cambodia, he has learned how to think independently and critically, he said.
Donna Luckey, associate professor of architecture and urban planning, did research in Costa Rica as a Fulbright scholar in Fall 1990. She used her sabbatical the following semester for further research.
She said her Fulbright scholarship was important because it enabled her to stay for more than one semester.
"Living in a tropical forest is different than living in Kansas," Luckey said. "If you don't have time to be in a foreign place long enough, you don't get the
"Living in a tropicalforest is different than living in Kansas."
Donna Luckey associate professor architecture and urban planning
same experience."
Luckey said she thought the program fulfilled its purpose of creating a better understanding between people.
"Any opportunity to get out and live in another culture increases your understanding not only of the other culture but also of your own culture," she said.
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