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Live at the Apollo
Student show highlights broad range of talent
Marla Keown/KANSAN
Eric Tedder, Wichita sophomore, dances with Emily Copeland, McPherson sophomore, Saturday night in Woodruff Auditorium for Apollo Night. The dancing duo have worked together for a year and are also members of the KU Dance Sport club. The couple will be competing in a ballroom competition this March.
BY BETHANY BUNCH
From Salsa dancing to beatboxing, a wide array of talent was displayed at Saturday's Apollo Night, a student talent show presented by Student Union Activities.
Of the 20 acts that tried out to perform at Apollo Night in late January, only nine were selected for the show.
Barley DeKeus, Des Moines,
Iowa senior, is the president of SUA.
DeKeus said she was pleased with
the outcome of the event.
"I think the talent was amazing." DeReus said. "I'm very impressed with how much talent there is at KU."
Third place winner Rusty Scott; Chillicothe, Mo., sophomore, won a $100 gift card to Hastings. Scott played guitar and harmonica and sang music that he wrote.
"I'm super pumped that I got third." Scott said.
"It's what I live for," he said.
from screeching microphones and volume control problems.
Scott wasn't the only performer to get nervous. Other performers dropped water bottles and suffered
DeReus said she thought the audience turn out to this year's Apollo. Night was a little better than in the past
SUA. Miller said the SUA staff always feels accomplished after
"I think the talent was amazing. I'm very impressed with how much talent there is at KU."
finishing a big event.
BAILEY DEREUS SUA president
Taylor Miller, Colby junior, is the Hawk Nights coordinator for
"We feel like we've contributed to the KU community by providing an alcohol-free option." Taylor said.
The first place winner was Jordy Altman, Overland Park junior Altman's act was guitar improvisation and experiment-
tal acoustic where he, by himself, recorded several parts of music and voice. Altman left the stage to a standing ovation.
Saba dancing, piano and vocal duets and soloists comprised the remaining acts. The top four acts were awarded gift cards descending in denominations from $250 for first place to $50 for fourth place.
Kansan staff writer Bethany Bunch can be contacted at bbunch@kansan.com.
— Edited by Trevan McGee
SCIENCE
Darwin Day to include film
Alumnus's documentary to shed light on evolution-intelligent design debate
BY DANAE DESHAZER
A circus like atmosphere has characterized the debate of intelligent design versus evolution throughout the ages, Randy Olson, KU alumnus and evolutionary ecologist turned filmmaker, said. Scientists even have brought stuffed monkeys to present their cases.
Olson said he had enough of scientists clowning around and decided to put the controversy into a medium that would translate to a mass audience. He added a spice of humor too.
Olson centered his documentary, "Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus", around the idea that scientists might end up extinct, like the dodo bird. The dodo bird did not adapt to its surroundings of human interaction, causing the bird to die out. Similarly, scientists aren't communicating effectively with the media, which is evolving quickly, Olson said. The message of evolution is getting lost.
"It's easy to see that a lot of scientists and researchers are stupid with their behavior, like a bunch of dodos, so that seemed to be an appropriate mascot for the issue," Olson said.
The Lawrence premiere of Olson's documentary will be part of the Natural History Museum's Darwin Day at 7:45 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets to the film are $2 and available at the Natural History Museum gift shop.
Darwin Day is a worldwide celebration of Charles Darwin's 198th birthday. This year, the University is participating in Darwin Day with science centers and other universities for the first time. Events will occur throughout the day, including the documentary premiere and exclusive evolution exhibits displaying the local work of researchers.
The over-arching theme is "We've come a long way since Darwin."
"We've got new tools and 150 years of work since the Origin of Species" was published, Robert Hagen, Kansas Biological Survey research associate, said. "This has allowed us to look at the questions in new ways and with new insights."
There will also be a costume contest that will be judged by Olson's mother in Denver through a telecast Participants can dress as Darwin, a dodo or Muffy Moose, who is the character based on Olson's mother.
Muffy Moose, a central part of the film, lives in Shawnee and is a neighbor to John Calvert, a retired attorney and strong advocate for the intelligent design movement, Olson, who has a background in biology, interviewed Calvert in the film to present a debate between evolution and intelligent design.
Steve Case, Center for Science Education assistant director, also appears in the documentary. In the film, Case talks about how empowering it is for schoolchildren to understand the natural world.
"I was tired of beating my head on the wall. You have these pseudoscientific debates all the time, and they go on and on and they never get anywhere." Case said. "Id like to think knowledge is progressive."
The controversy extends into the classroom in states such as Kansas and Pennsylvania where court cases have debated whether evolution and intelligent design should be taught in the classroom.
Case said he participated in the film because it was a new approach to an age-old issue.
Case said people are naming evolution "Darwin's theory" in order to discredit its scientific validity. If evolution is a theory, opponents argue intelligent design should also be taught as a theory.
"Most people will choose their religion over evolution," Case said. "It doesn't have to be a choice. Science explores the natural world, and religion explores a spiritual world. They're separate areas of
Darwin Dav
Noon —— "Forms Most Beautiful. Ideas of Evolution at the Molecular Level" by Richard Schowen, Kansas distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry, seminar at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union
6-7:30 p.m. — Evolution and the Arts in the Print Study Room, Spencer Museum of Art
6 p.m. — Open House at the Natural History Museum including 10 exclusive evolution exhibits
The documentary gives equal time to both sides of the debate, Case said. Olson said the documentary would generate thoughts on the valuable issue, especially when presented at institutions nationwide.
knowledge that don't have to conflict"
"I hope that every high school kid in America watches it," Olson said. "It's a really fun film for all ages and presents a very complex issue in a fun way."
"Dodos" was first shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2006. The documentary will premiere in more than 50 locations on Darwin Day and will be released on DVD this summer.
7:30 p.m. — Costume judging in Woodruff Auditorium
7:45 p.m. — "Flock of Dodos"
in Woodruff Auditorium
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@kansan.com.
- Edited by Jyl Unruh
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