MANUAL
GET SOME CULTURE // MULTICULTURAL THEATRE
> It's not all about fast food and beer pong.
The Multicultural Theatre Initiative (MTI) opens the stage for diverse plays and student opportunities. The group started at KU in 2008 and has performed subject matter ranging from puppets to teen violence.
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The point of multicultural theater is to involve everyone, says Jackie Koester, group member and Hoisington senior. "If it only had a pool of theater majors, it wouldn't exemplify campus. I've seen computer programmers and engineers who can act."
Not only does the group involve outside majors, but members take on diverse roles. Performing in the puppet act last year, Jenny Curatola, Lansing sophomore, takes on leadership, co-directing their upcoming show, Plains. "It doesn't matter if you have no experience. I'd never directed," she says.
MTI steps away from well-known plots, reading and developing original scripts. Plains, which was written by Harry Meech from Wainuiomata, New Zealand, and received the New Zealand Young Playwright award in 2009, is about the post apocalypse and what people
do with their lives. Meech, who co-directs with Curatola, steps out of the writer role to develop the characters from his script.
Plains will be performed for the first time by the MTI On Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. The free play will be in the William Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"Why pass up free entertainment that applies to your life?" Curatola says.
BRENNA LONG
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Actors all around: The goal of the Multicultural Theatre Initiative is to include members of all backgrounds, even those who aren't used to reading scripts. The group performs Plains this weekend in Murphy Hall.
It's not enough to have tickets to KU basketball games. For good seats, you have to camp.
> In case of emergency, read quickly.
Since the 2005-2006 season, Mark Pacey, Manhattan graduate student, has been in charge of basketball camping. "Camping is mostly habit to me now, and I like my seat."
When you arrive, find Pacey, put your name down and wait for your turn to pick a numbered poker chip. Each group can have a maximum of 30 members. For each five members who show up to lottery, you get one number. So if you have 30 members, you'll get six tries for your number. Your place in line is determined by the highest number you draw. Pacey posts the order on the doors at Allen Fieldhouse. If you don't have five members or miss camping, you can add your name to the bottom of the list.
The first step to getting good seats is to organize a camping group of students. To get on the list, your group needs to go to lottery in Allen Fieldhouse at 6 a.m. the day after every home game.
ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS // BASKETBALL CAMPING
Once you have a spot,you camp. Camping
takes place from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the week, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekends. Someone from your group should be present for roll call at all times. If not, you'll be crossed off the list. Out of a group of 30, Jimmy Caprio, Carmel, Calif., junior, only trusts four members for the 6 a.m. role call. "I'm going to be real mad if we get crossed off, and they get kicked out of the group. I have a zero tolerance policy," he says.
After camping, the groups do a final roll call 30 minutes before doors open for the game, and the groups get their place in line. "I've been in the first couple rows 10 times, and in the front five or six times," Caprio says. "It pays off."
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BY SAMANTHA COLLINS scollins@kansan.com
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
if you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club," Yanker said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
CAMPUS | 3A
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
For an'A,' do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
age - while she was driving her car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim." Strusz said.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
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But search "Lawrence, KS
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
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Kansas lucks out with late foul call
KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a controversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left. Check out our post-game coverage.
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