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/ NEWS / TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
— Oprah Winfrey
FACT OF THE DAY
In a very early draft of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones brass braked knuckles instead of a bullwhip.
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TUESDAY
February 15
The Dole Institute of Politics will host a talk by former Congressman Dennis Moore at 4 p.m. at the Institute.
The Theatre Department will present "Black Box," an undergraduate play, at 7:30 p.m. at the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
What's going on?
WEDNESDAY February 16
John Sullivan, a volunteer and recruiter for the Peace Corps, will talk about his recent trip to Guatemala and life in Latin America from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union.
Former McDonald's vice president Walt Riker will discuss corporate responsibility from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
SATURDAY
February 19
The Lied Center will host the play "Bus Stop" by Pulitzer-prize-winner and KU alumnus William Inge from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Student tickets are $10.
THURSDAY February 17
The School of Music KU Symphony Orchestra will perform from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
As a part of the Campus Movie Series, "Tangled" will be playing at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KUID and $3 for general admission.
The department of visual art will host a reception for the visual art faculty's work in room 302 of the Art and Design Building from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
SUNDAY
February 20
FRIDAY February 18
In honor of Toni Morrison's 80th birthday, the Langston Hughes Center will host a 24-hour reading of her work at Anschutz Library. The reading will begin at noon on Thursday and conclude with birthday cake at noon on Friday.
MONDAY February 21
The KU School of Music will host a recital featuring Jonathan Gregoire, who plays the organ, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Bales Organ Recital Hall. Admission is free.
LOCAL
Jefferson's still dark and still in the red
Almost a week after Jefferson's restaurant was shut down, the bright red "SEIZED" signs still hang on the windows.
The restaurant owed nearly $47,000 in taxes to the state, and owner Jason Franklin said he had expected the restaurant to be open again by last Thursday or Friday. However, the restaurant is still dark.
Jeannine Koranda, public information officer at the Kansas Department of Revenue, said the restaurant's fate is still in the air.
"It's a case-to-case thing on how that particular business is working with the department," Koranda said. "So it's not like if they haven't come up with the money in three days they're shut down."
Koranda also said if the business can't come up with the
money, eventually the assets will go to a public auction. There, the highest bidder will buy the assets, and whatever amount the bidder pays will go to the state to pay back what Jefferson's owes.
Back what SENERS left?
But Jefferson's lovers shouldn't get themselves down. Vermont Street BBQ, previously located at 728 Massachusetts, closed in September 2009 and is looking to re-open.
Shimomura's work brings dark history to light
A representative at the city clerk's office said Brann stopped by to pick up an application to reinstate the restaurant, but no one had filed the papers yet.
The Lawrence Journal-World reported last week that Vermont Street BBQ's former owner, Chris Brann, said he hopes the restaurant will be open again for March Madness, and that the location will definitely be somewhere on Massachusetts street.
—By Laura Sather
Exhibit attendees view "Shimomura Crossing the Delaware" by Roger Shimomura
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
mrothman@kansan.com
It's easy to forget a barbed wire barrier when you weren't behind it. Roger Shimomura, his family and more than 120,000 other Japanese were. Shimomura never forgot.
"Government," he said, "has a very,very short memory."
"We're looking at something
16. Shimomura unveiled "Shadows of Minidoka" Friday night at the Lawrence Arts Center to a bustling crowd of wine sippers, art aficionados and passersby. The two-room gallery, which will be open to the public until March 12, features Shimomura's acrylic paintings and collected artifacts. The works reflect on and resurface the two years he spent at an internment camp for Japanese Americans in Minidoka, Idaho during the second World War.
more than paying lip-service to diversity and history," said Carol Ann Carter, professor of painting and former colleague of Shimomura.
The paintings rely on recurring symbols to imprint their meaning and ensure that the viewer refamiliarizes oneself with this American tragedy. "Shadow of the Enemy" depicts the silhouette of a pigtailed young girl skipping rope — the atypical villain. In most pieces, no matter the mood, barbed wire dangles around the exterior.
"The proliferation of barbed wire represents the confluence of symbolic confinement as well as actual confinement," Shimomura said. "People are not free to live their lives as America promises is their nationalistic right."
Ben Ahlvers, exhibitions director of the Lawrence Arts Center who installed the art, cited the artifacts as "the cornerstone" of the exhibition.
the most gripping evidence of injustice lies within the room of artifacts. Among other items, propaganda, government orders, newspaper clippings, camp artwork and letters on the gallerv's
walls tell the story of the prisoners' plight.
the exhortation.
"The conglomeration of all of those parts make for a personal connection," he said.
conNECTED Richard Thomas Barkosky, Haskell University freshman of Tucscon, AZ, was a youthful outlier in the mostly middle-aged
gathering.
"It reminds me of comic books," Barkosky said of the acrylic works. "It's cartoony."
Though the lucid style of painting may oddly juxtapose such austere subjects, Shimomura is able to remove personal influence from his art.
"The anger, pain and frustration," he said, "stops when I decide what I are going to paint."
Edited by Dave Boyd
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