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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
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Pride WEEK2001
April 16-21 Events
Monday April 16
Jan Einarson | Comedy
8:00PM KS Union Ballroom
Unity through Community
Tuesday April 17
Skott Freedman | Speech & Concert
4:00PM Spencer Art Museum
8:30PM Hashingher Hall Auditorium
Wednesday April 18
Alix Olson | Slam Poetry
Workshop 3:30PM Woodruff Auditorium
Performance 8:30PM Jazzhaus
Tremors Party | Pride Party
Evening to 2:00AM Tremors
Thursday April 19
Movie Night | But I'm a Cheerleader
9:30PM Woodruff Auditorium
Friday April 20
Drag Show | 8th Annual
Noon KS Union Plaza
Saturday April 21
Rights March | Mass St
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Documentary features North American prairie
The scientists, ranchers, cowboys and American Indians who appear in the documentary come from prairie country, as do Kansas City, Mo-based filmmakers Aimee Guignon Larrabe and John Altman, a cousin of director Robert Altman's and maker of more than two dozen documentary
An audience gathered for a reception recently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History saw a preview of Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie, along with a book and exhibit.
films of his own. Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett hosts and actor Michael Murphy narrates.
By Libby Quaid Associated Press Writer
That is what the makers of a new documentary (airing Friday at 8 p.m. on most PBS stations) say about the tallgrass prairie, North America's most endangered ecosystem. Swaying plumes of native grasses once stretched from Texas to the Canadian province of Manitoba, but today the tallgrass prairie gently rises and falls on only a few million acres in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Nearly 30 years of research by Kansas State University's Konza Prairie Biological Station shows that the cattle industry, along with frequent burning, is critical to the survival of what's left.
WASHINGTON — Walt Whitman found the greatest scenery not in Yosemite, Niagara Falls or Yellowstone, but in the unassuming countryside across America's midsection.
In the 150 years since Europeans settled there — in Manitoba and the Dakotas, in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas — all but 5 percent of the rich, fertile tallgrass soil has given way to row-crop farming, particularly to corn and wheat, domesticated cousins of the wild grasses.
"I am not so sure but the prairies and plains," he wrote in 1879, "while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest and make North America's characteristic landscape."
Ultimately, their film reflects the soil as it lives and breathes. Cattle munch tender new shoots just as buffalo did centuries ago. Streaks of fire zigzag through a black prairie night. The wind rustles grasses with names like little blue stem, prairie smoke, prairie blazing star.
Nature created the tallgrass prairie over millions of years, as the earth shifted and glaciers froze and melted. The Rocky Mountains' emergence created arid land to the east, where grasses began to take root.
Plants on the western plains remained shorter, and the region became home to shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie. Winds from the Pacific combined with moisture from Canada and the Gulf of Mexico helped create the tallgrass prairie, or, as some call it, True Prairie.
Crossword
ACROSS
1  Molten rock
2  Red planet
3  Cassowary kin
4  Animated Fudd
5  Aid a criminal
6  Ripped
7  Violinist Isaac
8 "Moonstruck"
star
9  Seek prey
10  Biblical collection of poets
11  Mr. Baba
12  Retaliatory actions
13  Kampala man
14  Org.of Flames
15  Dine
16  Snoozes
17  Keyboard key
18  New York city
19  Pied
19  Large belly
20  More reasonable
21  Monotonously
22  Flap glues
23  Yard-work tool
24  Neither's partner
25  Cup iron
26  Sergio and Andy
27  Whined tearfully
28  College cheer
29  Hawksbill's carapace
30  Follow closely
31  First name in mysteries
32  Brief role
33  Scads
34  Provoke
35  Carringa & Coit
36  Ballpints
37  Insolent rejoinder
38  Term of tenancy
DOWN
1 Disorderly jumble
2 Palo ___ CA
3 Feds
4 Shieldrake
5 Infamous
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Benedict
6 Apple PCs
7 Detest
8 "__ and Rockin"n
9 Poetic stanza
10 Attitudes of a people
11 Jabal Mosa, by another name
12 Coffee server
13 Solidity
14 Decree
15 Gangsters' gals
15 A-hail
16 Lets live
17 Removes
fearers
18 Make up ground
19 Specter
30 Pester
30 Pester
37 "Alice in
Wonderland"
character
39 Monarch
41 Chasing game
41 Pinball bunglers
46 Naked
50 City on the
Illinois
52 Scamp
54 Electrical units
55 Pickle picks
56 Comprehends
59 Thompson of "Howards End"
60 Marvin and Remick
61 Remick
62 Light knock
63 Plb order
This ad is the film ad for knight ridder that you have??? Or can shoot from art I will send. Thanks, Willie