Friday, May 4, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Festival to feature lesbian films
Proceeds will support search for Lawrence girl
Erin Adamson
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Miranda Film Festival will present five films with lesbian themes tomorrow to raise money to find Miranda Budiman, who was four years old when she was allegedly kidnapped more than two years ago by her father and taken to Indonesia.
Miranda's mother, Tara Budiman, now lives in Lawrence with her partner Tammy O'Shields, and the festival honors the local queer community.
Christine Robinson, graduate teaching assistant in women's studies and Western Civilization, said that February Sisters was able to organize the film festival with the financial support of SUA, the theater and film department, Queers and Allies, Student Senate and Coca-Cola. She said Sharon
MIRANDA FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
3 p.m. Boys Don't Cry
5:15 p.m. The Sex Monsters
7 p.m. Chutney Popcorn
9 p.m. Watermelon Woman
10:30 p.m. Shades of Gray
Tomorrow at 3139 Wescoe
For more information, visit www.geocities.com/feb-
sisters/
Sullivan, graduate teaching assistant in theater and film and women's studies, had come up with the idea of the festival.
Erin Goodison, Mound City senior, said she had met Budiman and O'Shields when she worked at the Vagina Monologues and decided she wanted to help raise money for the couple to find Miranda.
Goodison said the festival had been an opportunity for the queer community to work together to help a member of the community.
"I think that Lawrence has a great and very active queer community." Goodison said. "More
than anything, this is what happens from having a small, tightly knit community."
Goodison made educational promotions at KJHK and helped with public relations for the festival.
"The festival is incredibly important as we consider the queer community and civil rights," Saveed said.
Almas Sayeed, Wichita senior, said the movies were chosen to highlight women's experiences and sexuality in a number of different contexts.
She said the films presented the experiences of many lesbians of color, who often don't have a feminist network to support them.
"Each of these movies gives the queer community a great deal of autonomy, whether you are part of the queer community or not," Sayeed said. "It is for a cause. It's not simply to watch the films, but to think about what happens to out couples."
Sayeed said that Shades of Gray, the last film of the evening, highlighted the experiences of local lesbians.
Edited by Summer Lewis
Used clothing market in the toilet
Mary Nall, Lawrence resident, wades through a sea of clothes at Flush, a new second-hand clothing store. Flush, 13 E. Seventh St., opened next to Java Break in early April. Store hours are noon to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and noon to midnight on Friday and Saturday. Photo by Joshua Richards/KANSAN
The Java Break opens boutique dubbed Flush
By Molly Gise and Mike Gilligan writer@kansan.com
Specials to the Kansan
A toilet sits in the corner of Lawrence's latest rèsale clothing store. Every 10 minutes or so, a pipe suspended above the toilet releases a stream of water into the bowl, resounding the store's name.
Flush!
The Java Break recently added Flush, a resale clothing store attached directly to the coffee shop. Derek Hogan, owner of The Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St., said the store's name came to him one day while he was taking care of some personal business.
"I was sitting on my toilet at home," Hogan said.
Like The Java Break, which is open 24 hours a day. Flush has unusual hours. Its doors are open Sunday through Thursday from noon to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from noon to midnight.
Amy Brady, Topea junior, said she liked the store's hours.
"One advantage of Flush is that it's open so late," Brady said. "So if I wanted to buy a used T-shirt at 11 at night, I could."
Resale stores and coffee shops are two business staples of a typical college town. Though Lawrence has a number of used clothing stores, Don Stanley, assistant manager of The Java Break, said Lawrence had room for another.
It's been a pretty lucrative market here, Stanley said. "Lawrence had no problem supporting Arizona Trading Company and Sugartown."
Jennifer Agniel, Shawnee senior,
said she was happy to see another
used clothing store.
"I think it's good, because if they don't buy your stuff at one store, then maybe they'll take it at another store," she said. "You have more options."
Lawrence's downtown area features the most resale clothing stores, including Arizona Trading Company, Sugartown Traders, Pickadell Square and now Flush.
Jennifer McKnight, owner of Arizona Trading Company, said that used clothing stores didn't involve the same kind of competition as other businesses.
"The market will support whatever it wants to support," McKnight said. "I don't consider the other used clothing stores as competition,
because we all have different things that make us unique."
New York's trendy thrift stores and Diesel's in-store coffee shops inspired him to open Flush, Hogan said.
"I think it turned out pretty cute."
Hogan said. "It's a little more boutique-y than perhaps in some of the other stores."
McKnight said she supported Java Break's latest endeavor.
"I've been around for 10 years, and we keep expanding," McKnight said. "If Java Break does good, that's wonderful, because this is a good business to be in. If you know what you are doing, you will do well for sure, especially in a town like Lawrence."
Hogan said he would eventually expand Flush into the coffee shop. He also plans to produce new clothes like silk screen printed T-shirts and studded jeans to add to the used clothes.
"I want to do something creative with my life," he said. "Clothes are creative."
Hogan said the used clothing business differed from coffee shops, which are more competitive. He said he had never seen a town with as many coffee shops as Lawrence. But the competition doesn't worry him.
"We can't worry about competition." Hogan said. "We have to worry about ourselves and let competition make us a better store."
- Edited by Matt Daugherty
Professor leaves for California job as business dean
By Sarah Warren
Kansan staff writer
It may have been the thought of better weather that drew Henry Butler to a position at Chapman University in Orange. Calif., last week.
But then it could have been the controversy, too.
Butler, professor of business, resigned from his post at the University of Kansas last week to take the dean's job at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman.
The controversy lay in a Wall Street Journal article that questioned the center's relationship with Koch Industries, a Wichita-based family business. That article speculated that a continuing-education program that was sponsored by the center was deliberately set up to influence judges who might rule on future cases in which Koch Industries was a party. Operations for the center were, for the most part, underwritten by a donation from the Koch Foundation. A national headline controversy ensued.
In 1999, Butler was involved in a controversy with the KU Organizational Economics Center. Butler is the director of the center and his wife, Paige Butler, is the current associate director.
In 1999, the Journal broke the story about the center's controversial relationship with Koch. In the same year, the company's oil division was engrossed in a scandal involving the theft of oil from Native-American lands in Oklahoma.
Butter and his wife were unavailable for comment yesterday. However, according to yesterday's Lawrence Journal-World, Butler addressed his business school colleagues on the matter through a staff e-mail.
While I really hate to leave Lawrence and KU, this is a tremendous opportunity for Paige and me." When he travels to Chapman, Butler will take the center with him. He said, in the e-mail, that his wife would be the director of the center and that the program would continue at Chapman.
Edited by Jennifer Valadez
International students adjust to customs of physical contact
By Michelle Ward
Kansan staff writer
Some students try to follow the rules of their religion or culture, but sometimes it is just easier to do what Americans expect them to do.
When men try to shake Fatemah Bahman's and Ilham Al-Azizi's hands, the women sometimes return the physical greeting instead of explaining that it's against their religion — Islam.
open with their affections than Americans, while Japanese and people from the Middle East are more guarded.
American culture has one set of rules for displays of affection, while other cultures and countries vary greatly in their own traditions. South Americans are much more
"We are taught to keep our distance from men," said Al-Azizi, Muscat, Oman, freshman. "It's
Bahman, Kuwait City, Kuwait, sophomore, said if women were friends and had not seen each other for awhile, they would hug and kiss each other. She thought they were more open with one another than American women. However, their religion prevented affection between men and women, unless they were a father, brother, uncle, grandfather or husband.
just not right to touch a man if he can marry you."
But it is much different in Anita Herzfeld's native country of Argentina. Men and women will hug and touch cheeks when they greet one another. When men meet other men, they will even show this affection. Herzfeld, an associate professor in Latin American studies, said that was something new as men grew freer in their expression.
She has adjusted to American culture, but she still wails her students she is "touchy,"
touchy." She said they have to get used to it just like she did with her professors. When she first came to the United States, she would have professors pinned against the wall, she said. As she moved closer, they would continue to back up as they needed their personal space.
She also noticed her friends stiffen as she joined arms to walk with them. She said it was just the way women walked in Argentina. They would walk down the street arm in arm but not in America. Herzfeld said Americans needed a greater amount of space than South Americans.
Herzfeld believed the ability to be close was linked to how the two societies lived. While most Americans move at least five times in their lives, Argentines often stay in the same place they were born. She said Americans didn't form as close of bonds with people because they knew they would leave. But people's close friends in Argentina would be there for life, she said.
"You live and die in the same place you were born," she said. "People develop much closer relationships."
Yoko Numata, Yokohama, Japan, graduate student, said people were much more formal in her homeland. They would shake hands if they were at a business function, but no one really hugged in Japan. When out drinking with friends, people might pat each other on the arm as a sign of affection. But warmth came more in people's expressions and words than outward signs of affection.
Numata said affection was shown in subtle ways in Japan. The formality of the culture is very important in Japan and is tied to a belief that younger generations respect older ones, she said. The formality does make it difficult to communicate sometimes, though.
"When I want to share my feelings with my parents, I feel like I can't really share everything," she said. "I don't feel like they can respond to me fully."
Edited by Doug Pacey
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