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Thursday, April 18, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bad hair day
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Thanphirom, Shawnee junior, sits outside Robinson Center as yesterday's strong winds whip her hair. The gusty winds are expected to continue today and into the weekend.
Wizard of Oz imagery has haunted Kansans
Lecturer to explain usual associations
By Heather Kirkwood
Kansan staff writer
Tornadoes, Toto and endless fields of wheat have been associated with Kansas ever since L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
But what do these images mean to Kansas?
Karal Ann Marling, a professor of art history and American studies at the University of Minnesota, will speak about the relationship between Kansas and the imagery of the Wizard of Oz at 7 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art.
"All you have to do is go to the bookstore or to an airport gift shop and see the Toto T-shirts and the 50 books on Dorothy to know there is something going on here," Marling said.
The turn of the century children's book has had 13 sequels, was a 1939
M. G.M. musical and was re-written in numerous modern forms such as the all-Black version, The Wiz and Walt Disney's Return to Oz.
Becky Tegtmeier, Topeka freshman, said that when she traveled in Arizona people would smile when she told them she was from Kansas.
"They say, 'Oh, there's no place like home,' Tegtmeyer said.
Dion Jones, a sophomore from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, said he had similar images of Kansas before coming to the University.
"I thought of Kansas as a flat place, full of tornadoes and cornfields where everyone's dog's name is Toto," Jones said.
But Jones was surprised to learn that Kansas was not so sparsely populated, and he was surprised by the number of African-Americans he found here.
Marling's lecture is part of the Murphy Lecture Series honoring Franklin Murphy, chancellor of the University from 1951 to 1959.
The lecture is sponsored by the University of Kansas Kress Founda
Murphy Lecture Series
What: Back to Oz Again: Utopia and Dystopia in Popular (and Unpopular) Images of Kansas, from L. Frank Baum to Walt Disney
When: 7 tonight, Spencer Museum of Art auditorium
tion, the art history department, the Spencer Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Lawrence model for Argentina
Villa Maria leaders glean tips from visit
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence is a town of learning.
For three Argentinean leaders from the city Villa Maria in the middle of Argentina, that learning did not come from the University of Kansas' classrooms. Instead, it came from visiting volunteer organizations and talking to city and University leaders.
Lawrence and Villa Maria both have about 70,000 residents, and Villa Maria will become a university town when its new university opens in March 1997.
Those similarities made it possible for Graciela De Celis-Pérez, director of the secretariat of social development; Ada Zagaglia, city commissioner; and Luis Pérez-Seggiaro, a member of Villa Maria's founding committee, to learn from Lawrence during their week-long visit that ends tomorrow. The visit was sponsored by the Latin-American Studies department.
The three told The University Daily Kansan through a translator that they hoped Lawrence and Villa Maria could create an exchange program for both the universities and the city governments.
"As the university grows, we hope to start an exchange of ideas and information," Pérez-Seggiaro said. "In the future there can may also be an exchange of students and even professors."
In addition to meetings with University officials, the group's agenda included visiting volunteer organizations. De Celis-Perez said she was impressed with the structure of such organizations.
Although volunteering exists in Argentina, it is neither as common nor as institutionalized as in the United States. Zagadia said.
Another difference between Villa Maria and Lawrence is that Lawrence city officials can count on volunteer efforts unlike Villa Maria city officials.
As the new university's opening approaches, leaders and residents of Villa Maria fear that crime rates will rise because of the influx of students. Therefore, the three were interested in learning about Lawrence's crime prevention programs, such as Project Freedom. Villa Maria already has a couple of crime-prevention programs, but the three have gained ideas about how to enrich them during their time in Lawrence, De Celis-Perez said.
"Lawrence is a safe city, and we'd like to imitate that," she said.
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