University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 10, 1988
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Senate money sought Bill would finance student film festival
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
Four bills being considered tonight by Student Senate could bring a bit more culture to the University.
The bills seek financing for a student film makers' festival, a piano concert and two lectures.
romote a "student Film Makers" Night. Tim McMahon, the director of the film society, said the event would serve a dual purpose.
"It would provide a forum for film studies majors and provide an alternate film viewing experience for the community," he said.
DePaepe said student film makers would benefit greatly from a night of film screenings.
an important thing for film makers at an undergraduate level is feedback from an audience of their peers.
Jon Gregor, resident at-large senator, is sponsoring a bill to allocate $8,016 to the University Concert and Chamber Series. He said the money would be used to pay part of the cost of a concert by pianist Andre Watts.
"At this point, the series is under their income projections due to sluggish ticket sales," he said.
projections due to sluggish ticket sales," he said. Gregor the majority of the series' events had not sold as many tickets as hoped, including performances
by Yo-Yo Ma and the National Dance Company of Senegal.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, is sponsoring two bills to bring to the University speakers who might not be well-known, she said, but who are interesting nonetheless.
"They are cheaper than most speakers," she said, and they have messages that have not been heard on camera.
One speaker she hopes to bring to campus is Juan Williams. Williams was the producer and writer of "Eyes on the Prize," a PBS documentary series on the Civil Rights movement.
"But even if you haven't seen it, you will still enjoy hearing him speak," she said.
The bill would allocate $3,001 to bring Williams to KU. Quincy said she wanted Williams to speak during February, which is Black History Month, but that that might not be possible.
But passing the bill in February would at least be a good way to recognize the month, she said.
Quincy also wants to allocate $4,751 to bring author Susan Brownmiller to KU to lecture on feminism.
Brownmiller has written two books dealing with womens' issues.
Lisa Leinarker/KANSAN
Clockwise from top left, Katherine Anderson, Deana Kucza, Allison Covault, Nichole Rapp, and Ashley Quick, two-year-olds at United Child Development Center, 946 Vermont St., dressed as valentines yesterday for a parade around the center.
William Allen White Foundation to honor Greenberg for editorials
Be mine
By a Kansan reporter
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Paul Greenberg will receive the 1988 William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit today at a luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Greenberg, the editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial in Pine Bluff, Ark., and a nationally syndicated columnist, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his book *The Mystery* He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer two other times.
"He was chosen with a view toward advancing and perpetuating the commitment William Allen White had to good journalism," Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said yesterday.
William Allen White won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1923 and was editor of the Emporia Gazette from 1895 to 1944. He was nationally famous for his small-town commentaries about political and
social issues.
Kautsch said Greenberg was chosen because of his well-established background in community journalism and his well-known national and international commentaries.
Davis Merritt Jr., executive editor of the Wichita Eagle-Beacon and president of the William Allen White Foundation, will introduce Greenberg and present the award to him.
"In many respects, he resembles William Allen White as an editorial writer." Kautsch said.
Kautsch will announce the winner of the 1988 Burton W. Marvin Kansas News Enterprise Award. That award is given to a Kansas circulating newspaper for excellence in enterprising news reporting.
Burton W. Marvin was dean of journalism at the University of Kansas from 1948-1965.
Experts advise slow start for novice weightlifters
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
Weightlifting has become a popular form of exercise for many non-athletes.
But health experts at the University of Kansas advise that weightlifting, if not done properly, can be dangerous.
They said weightlifting injuries were often the result of novice weightlifters doing too much too soon.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said injuries were common in people who were lifting weights for the first time in their lives.
"People begin moving too fast and doing too many repetitions when the initial level of conditioning is inappropriate for that level of activity." he said.
He said overuse of the muscles or erratic lifting motions could lead to muscle and tendon inflammation, or even a muscle tear.
Because of the strain normally associated with weightlifting, lifters
Lawrence Magee, sports medicine specialist at Watkins, said improper weight training caused more than 4 percent decrease in his sports medicine clinic at Watkins.
If you are going to start jogging,you don't go out on your first day and run ten miles.'
Athletic Department
Brad Roll
strength and conditioning coach for the
sometimes do not know if they are on the verge of an injury, or if they are just getting a good workout.
Magee said that weightlifting could cause a harmless burning sensation related to muscle fatigue but that a persistent pain could be a warning that the body is doing too much.
"That's not the type of pain you try to work through," he said. "You need to draw the line between discomfort and signs of injury."
Karen Loudon, a physical therapist at Watkins, said that pain related to an injury probably would develop during the workout, although harmless muscle soreness often wouldn't develop until 12 hours after the workout.
Magee said muscle soreness lasted only to three days, while muscle tears could last from four to six
weeks
Brad Roll, strength and conditioning coach for the Athletic Department, said there were safe ways to maximize the benefits of weight training.
He said people should start slow and gradually work into weightlifting. He said that for the first month, the person should lift only three days a week for about 45 minutes at a time.
"You get to know a little bit about your body, and you see how much stress your body can take," he said. "It's something you gradually build into. You need to build a strong endurance and strength base.
"If you are going to start jogging, you don't go out on your first day and run ten miles." Roll said.
Yockey said people could avoid injuries by not expecting to see the benefits of weightlifting too quickly.
"It's not a two-week thing. You don't look like Arnold Schwarzeneger in two weeks," he said."
But even with the risk, the experts said that weightlifting, when used as a companion to cardiovascular exercise, could be a healthy way to keep fit.
Fond memories linger in lounge
Kansan staff writer
Bv Brenda Finnell
Barbara Craig demanded a lot from her students, but her friends said she gave a lot of herself too. Those friends wanted her to be remembered.
"She was everyone's favorite aunt." Kozma-Southall said.
Craig, who was a French instructor at the University of Kansas from 1947 to 1984 and chairman of the French and Italian department from 1977 to 1979, died August 11.
In December, the French and Italian department completed renovation of a room dedicated to Craig. The room contains new furniture and is a place where students and faculty can meet to talk or eat, said Jan Kozma-Southall, chairman of the department.
Kozma-Southall said the renovation was paid for with donations in Craig's memory and with money from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She said she hoped a formal dedication ceremony would take place later this semester.
"She was not an easy teacher, but everyone respected her." Crumrine
Kozma-Southall said she had often asked Craig for notice and that Craig
Colleagues describe Craig as an outdoor person who loved bird watching, horseback riding and attending KU football and basketball games.
Her specialty was medieval French drama. In 1979, she was inducted into the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Kozma-Southall said Craig had a good sense of humor. She said Craig attended a staff member's toga party when she was about 65 years old.
"She showed up in a toga with a cape and everything." Kozna-Southall sat.
David Dinneen, professor of French and Italian, wrote his master's thesis under Craig's guidance in 1962. He said that Craig was considered formidable at first but that when students got to know her, they discovered what a nice person she was.
Mattie Crumrine, a French instructor at KU from 1928 to 1971, said Craig set very high standards for her students and was always carefully prepared.
at stigma faced daily, speaker says
Family, church help black women cope
By Kathleen Faddis
Black women have the dual stigma of being female and black in a society that devalues both. Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said last night.
Ballard described the pressures of being a black woman to about 45 people at a workshop titled "Black Women: Do They Cope Better?" at the Kansas Union. Ballard's comments were based on ideas contained in a book of the same title by Lena Wright Mvers.
The workshop was sponsored by the Women's Resource Center.
Black women have been forced to cope because of the obstacles they face daily by being black and female, Ballard said. The strength to cope comes from a strong base of support from the family and the church, she said.
Black women will seek out support from their family or church before they will seek outside help. Ballard said. That might explain why few minority students take advantage of the help at KU's counseling center.
"What we have to learn is to
Ballard said that to cope, black women needed to have high self esteem. And when black women measure themselves against white standards, it gives them little chance to feel good about themselves.
Lauri Conner, St. Louis freshman, said she learned to cope from her mother and grandmother. The family has passed from one generation to another the things that society has not taught them: the ability to feel good about themselves.
Ballard said the women's movement made people aware of a lot of the problems black women had faced for a long time.
"If you believe you have worth, you can cope with just about anything," Ballard said.
Ballard said black women, especially in a predominantly white environment such as KU, often coped better because they were more determined to succeed.
The will not to fail becomes a strong motivation, she said.
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Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, leads a workshop entitled "Black Women: Do They Cope Better?"
utilize some of those other resources," Ballard said.