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Friday, April 21, 1995
KU Weekend
Earth Day turns 25
Parade sponsors hope for larger turnout than last year
If you can clap your hands to a two-four rhythm, you can be in the Earth Day Parade tomorrow.
By Jake Arnold
Clark Jamison, drummer for Eleven-Eleven, is seeking rhythm of any sort for the parade.
"People of all ages, sizes and shapes can bring percussion instruments, pots and pans or two sticks," he said. "I think everybody has rhythm in them. The more the merrier. The important thing is to have fun doing it."
There is no entry fee or sign-up sheet. Those wishing to participate need only show up at 10:45 a.m. at Watson Park at Sixth and Tennessee streets with something they can beat rhythmically.
"Anybody is invited to drum in the parade," he said. "It is a good community effort."
The parade will start at 11 a.m. in Watson Park and will head east on Seventh Street to Massachusetts Street. The route then follows Massachusetts Street south to South Park at 12th and Massachusetts streets.
This year's parade commemorates the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. As usual, no fossil fuel-burning entries will be allowed in the parade. Wagons, bicycles, human-
powered floats and possibly horses will be utilized.
After the parade, Jamison will hold a free drum jam in South Park. He expects it to last from 90 minutes to two hours.
the person marched with him, and about a dozen people participated in the drum jam. Sheer numbers don't really matter though.
"Even if it is only me with my bass drum, I will be happy," he said.
mothballs," Altenbernd said. "This time of year it is nearly impossible to get any sort of music."
Earthday Downtown Lawrence
The organizers had also considered bagpipes, but a national convention the same weekend stole all the bargine players.
Jamison and his volunteer drummers are filling the parade's musical need.
Altenbernd considers the parade the highlight of Lawrence's Earth Day festivities. A parade without music just wouldn't be right.
Kerry Altenbernd, one of the organizers of the parade, said this was a bad time of year to find a marching band because most school bands have called it quits by now.
Altenbern said Jamison would provide some kind of music.
Parade, 11 a.m. tomorrow
Crafts booth, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Music and children's activities, South Park, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
"All the marching bands are in
"Anybody who has anything that can make a drum sound can be in the drum parade," he said. "If anybwant to play a clarinet, they can play that, too." Jamison is a believer in the
special essence of rhythm. He is involved with Rhythm for Life, a group dedicated to community building through drum rhythms and rhythm as a means of healing.
"Rhythms pervade the Earth," Jamison said. "It is in and around us. There is rhythm in the seasons and the tides and the human heartbeat."
Views on the environment
Questions from selected polls on environmental issues:
I think of myself as:
Active environmentalist 23%
Sympathetic, not active 56%
Neutral 16%
Unsympathetic 2%
Have you sorted newspapers, bottles for recycling in the past two years?
Yes 63%
No 36%
Which should be sacrificed?
Which should be sacrificed?
1974 1994
Environmental quality for growth 21% 23%
Economic growth for the environment 38% 53%
Don't know 41% 24%
Have we gone too far with environmental laws, regulations?
regulations?
1974 1994
Gone too far 17% 13%
Not far enouth 25% 47%
Struck right balance 42% 34%
NOTE: Some charts don't equal 100%
because "don't know" category not
included.
SOURCE: "Attitudes Toward the Day, American Enterprise Institute Press"
Knight-Ridder Tribune
VE-Day anniversary planned for KU
By Luisa Flores Kansan staff writer
In March 1945, World War II was almost over.
It was a time to evacuate concentration camps as the Red army approached. Somewhere in an eastern German forest, a group of prisoners of war walked hours without rest while watched by German guards.
It was a time to die.
The German guards shot POWs who were not able to go on in the long, forced walk in the cold toward western Germany.
For Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, it was time to escave.
Piekalkiewicz, now a KU political science professor, was a Polish resistance leader and a POW by the end of World War II.
Piekalkiewicz said that he tried to escape three times. He finally succeeded the third time.
"The last escape was on the west part of Germany," he said. "We
were mostly sleeping in the forest, in the open surrounded by German guards. The German guards permitted us to collect wood for fire.
"Two of us decided to escape, and we asked our colleagues to create a diversion by walking beyond the permitted limit. When the guards shouted for them to go back, we ran away. Eventually, they were liberated. too."
Piekakiewicz was rescued by Allied troops April 1.
Piekalkiewicz will recount his experiences during the "Victory in Europe" conference. This year's conference is today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union and tomorrow at the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
"This conference has historical importance because it is the 50th anniversary, and these kind of conferences are being held everywhere." Piekalkiewicz said.
KU International Studies Office, the department of history, the Hall Center for Humanities and the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Foundation of Abilene are sponsoring the conference.
The conference will cover topics such as how and when VE-Day was supposed to happen; the end of the European war as a case study; eyewitnesses of the war's final days; how and why VE-Day occurred as it did; projections and realities following VE-Day and how the world was changed by VE-Day.
Other panelists include Stitt Robinson, professor emeritus of history who was a US. army officer in Czechoslovakia, and Louis Frydman, associate professor of social welfare who was a prisoner of a concentration camp. Also, Theodore Wilson, professor of history and author and editor of several books about World War II, will discuss the end of the war as a case study.
Wilson said that scholars had given more attention to the end of the war in the Pacific and that this
50th anniversary of the VE-Day was an opportunity to deeply acknowledge what happened.
"Looking at the end and why it ended as it did and what was its significance, is very important," he said. "The end of the war in Europe was the beginning of the Cold War. Could that have been avoided if things had ended differently?"
Piekakiewicz said that it also was important to reflect on the Nazi regime.
During five and a half years, the Nazis killed between 12 and 20 million people. Piekalkiewicz said
"Six millions of them were Jews, and one million were Gypsies," he said. "Many of those people were executed."
Piekalkiewicz said the VE-Day conference was a way to reflect on a period of crisis in Western civilization.
"We should reflect about that to prevent a system like that to exist again," he said.
"The Basketball Diaries" should sit the bench
By Dolores Barcly AP Arts Editor
In 1978, Jim Carroll published his gritty chronicle of adolescent drugtaking and life on the edge. Set in the turbulent 1960s, "The Basketball Diaries" was a "Naked Lunch" for the younger set.
Unfortunately, the makers of the Island Pictures film of the same name decided to set "The Basketball Diaries" in the '90s. Does it hold up? Well, let's just say that Carroll's poetic memories have been reduced to the kind of digestible mush Beavis and Butt-head would have no trouble understanding.
Not only did it capture the lost innocence of troubled youth, it was a mirror of those radical times.
Directed by Scott Kalvert, whose film experience has been limited to music videos, "The Basketball Diaries" is a disjointed montage of hackneyed statements with no real emotional, philosophical, physical
And to make matters even worse, much of the action is centered on a supposed basketball star whose on-screen playing is the worst ever filmed. Indeed, no one in this movie can move a ball very well.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who made such an impression with his Academy Award-nominated role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and in "This Boy's Life," stars as the young Carroll.
or spiritual thread.
When the movie first opens, Jim and his buddies are in a Catholic high school. The scene has the look and sense of the '60s, right down to the gym shorts. But wait, they're now in Times Square and it's ... today.
There's endless patter about drugs and getting even with another basketball team and major fights with mom (Lorraine Bracco) and a subplot about a dying, hospitalized friend.
The kids do a lot of drugs, and
When Jim's sick friend dies, Jim goes into an emotional rage, which Kalvert plays out in a basketball game in the rain. Somehow, it has all the feeling of a music video and not much of anything else.
Bruno Kirby also appears as the basketball coach at the Catholic high school who likes to seduce the boys on his team, and Ernie Hudson plays a basketball buddy who helps Jim through heroin withdrawal.
you're never sure why; they're destructive, but you don't know why. In fact, screenwriter Bryan Goluboff offers little motive or background for most of the behavior in the film, and Kalvert doesn't seem to know how to direct his young actors.
DiCaprio does his best with weak material, but wavers in his portrayal of a sensitive junkie. James Madio gives an edgy but humorous performance as Pedro, but Mark Wahlberg's Mickey is flat. Patrick McGaw is just fine as Neutron.
There's also a romp through a poppy field that at best resembles the old Revlon TV commercials and is not the only scene that evokes a lot of unintentional laughs.
Carroll wrote a compelling and rich portrait of kids on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His world was peopled with street-smart youngsters who may have done the wrong thing but who basically were good kids. But the kids in this movie are not very cool. They come across as dumb little punks.
Juliette Lewis puts in a cameo as prostitute-junkie Diane Moody, doing her best imitation of Juliette Lewis, and Carroll himself has a cameo, as a junkie named Frankie Pinewater.
The soundtrack is uninspiring and could have been a lot tougher and more on the cutting edge.
The New Line Cinema release was produced by Liz Heller and John Bard Manulis, with Chris Blackwell and Dan Genetti as executive producers. It is rated R.
Events
Tonight
SAMIAM, with The Goops and Sense Field, 10 p.m. cover charge, at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Beauoleh, 8 p.m., $13, at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Tomorrow
Ronnie Ward and Cowtown,
9:30 p.m., $3, at Cadillac
Ranch, 2515 W. Sixth St.
Open Blues Jam Session, 5 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe, 803 Massachusetts St.
Billy Goat, 10 p.m., cover charge, at The Bottleneck
Kerl Leigh and the Blue Devils, with 360 Degree Band, 9:30 p.m., $6, at The Grand Emporium, 3832 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Bill Henry and The Shouters,
10 p.m., $3, at Mulligan's,
1016 Massachusetts St.
Dugan Doyle, 10 p.m., $3, at Mulligan's.
Bob Margolin, 10 p.m., $4, at
The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2
Massachusetts St.
The Radiators, 8:30 p.m., $12,
at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
"Lake Jam," featuring Tenderloin and The Millions, 7 p.m., $5, at Clinton State Park.
The Rockafellas, 10 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
Tim Cross Trio, 10 p.m., $2, at Duffy's in the Ramada Inn, Sixth and Iowa streets.
Son Venezuela, 10 p.m., $4, at The Jazzhaus.
Monday
Sunday
Hellcat Trio, 9:30 p.m., $3, at The Grand Emporium.
Beaousoleb featuring Michael
Doucet, with Chubby
Smith 5; 9:30 p.m. $14,
at The Grand Emporium.
Reverend Horton Heat with Wax, 10 p.m., cover charge, at The Bottleneck.
Acid Jazz, 10 p.m., $2, at Mulligan's.
Dung Beetle with Crutch and Methods of Man, 9:30 p.m., $3, at The Grand Emporium.
Tuesday
KJHK Farmer's Ball, 10 p.m.
cover charge, At The Bottleneck.
Mondo Retro, 9:30 p.m. cover charge, at Mulligan's.
Brad Boerger and Joe Camparato, 8 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe
Poetry Jam with Robert Hildrith, 8 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
Wednesday
Habitat for Humanity Benefit, 9:30 p.m., cover charge at Mulligan's.
Minneapolis Reggae All Stars, 9:30 p.m., $5, at the Grand Emporium.
Jazzhaus Jazz Jam, 10 p.m. cover charge, at The Jazzhaus.
KJHK Farmer's Ball, 10 p.m. cover charge, at The Bottleneck.
Thursday
Our Lady Peace, 10 p.m., cover charge, at The Bottleneck.
Chris Blake Band, 9:30 p.m.
cover charge, at Mulligan's.
Karl Ramberg, 9 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
Cycles Acid Jazz, 10 p.m., $2,
at The Jazzhaus.
Reverend Horton Heat, with Wax and Salty Iguanas, 9:30 p.m., $12, at The Grand Emporium.