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TOMS founder addresses students
Since he started TOMS Shoes in 2006, Blake Mycoskie has helped give more than 400,000 pairs of shoes to children in need. And tonight he's coming to the University to give advice on philanthropy.
Tickets became available Jan. 11, and already more than 1,000 people from the Lawrence community have picked up tickets to attend Mycoskie's lecture, said Susan Hoffman, assistant director of Student Union Activities Programs for Student Union Activities. The lecture is part of SUAs 2010 Student Lecture Series.
TOMS is a company that gives one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased, a plan they call "one-for-one." SUAs social issues coordinator Rachel Anderson said Mycoskie will be speaking about social entrepreneurship, or the social aspect of business.
"We felt that this was a really good program to bring to KU because of his business strategy," said Anderson, a junior from Manhattan. "He's changing entrepreneurship."
Anderson said it's important for students to see the social and moral aspect put to the front of business thinking.
"He's putting a human face on how business can affect the world in a positive way," she said.
Hoffman said Mycoskie's message is especially pertinent to students.
"It's important that college students remember to think more about each other than just themselves," she said.
SUA has been involved with bringing speakers like Mycoskie to campus for several years, Hoffman said. She said this year, the young entrepreneur's lecture will be a big event for the group.
"I'm excited to hear his story, and what he has planned for the future," Hoffman said. "He's a young entrepreneur that's caring and giving back to people all over the world."
The TOMS movement, which began in 2006, has become popular across the country, including here at the University.
Cherie Gossett, the campus representative for TOMS Shoes, is also founder of the TOMS Shoes University of Kansas club. Gosett, a junior from Olathe, said the group will have an information table in the Lied Center at the event.
"I support TOMS because it's a strong company with strong values," Gossett said. "They react quickly with natural disasters, like in Haiti, and help people in need."
Besides supporting tonight's lecture, the TOMS Shoes University of Kansas club has several events planned this semester to support the cause, including a documentary viewing in February and an event in April called "Style Your Sole," which allows students to customize their shoes.
Sixth men
— Edited by Kristen Liszewski
(From left) Wille Wilson, a junior from Bonner Springs, Adam Carver, a junior from Shawnee, Matthew Fowler, a freshman from Fredonia, Austin Smith, a freshman from Tonganoxie, David Powell, a freshman from Tonganoxie, Jake Nelson, a junior from Bonner Springs, Matthew Bishop, a sophomore over Overland Park, and Blake Kasselman, a senior from Bonner Springs, stand in the front row at the North end of Allen Fieldhouse prior to the Missouri player introductions. Wilson said he came with three of the letters (O, K, and J), while he just met the other five letters standing in line prior to entering the fieldhouse.
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Sociology Department lecturer Shelley Koch, Associate Professor of Psychology Ric Steele, and Anthropology Professor Don Stull answer and discuss student questions at event "Food For Thought". The presentation and discussion centered around the psychology and culture of food in the American landscape and what the growing rate of obesity means in today's society.
Food culture worries experts
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Faculty members host discussion on rising concern
BY BRENNA LONG
blong@kansan.com
Food does more than sustain the body; it shapes and defines culture, according to a group of KU faculty members wanting to raise awareness of America's troubling food culture.
Yesterday the group of three faculty members hosted "Food For Thought: The Culture of Food In The United States" in the Kansas Union. The event focused on the relationship between food and culture and included discussions on food production, distribution and consumption in the U.S.
"The culture has come to bring us something we take for granted," said Sara Thomas Rosen, associate vice provost for research and graduate studies and the event's moderator. "We don't think about how the shrink-wrapped meat bought at the grocery store came to be."
anthropology, Ric Steele, associate professor of applied behavioral science and Shelley L. Koch, lecturer in sociology, lead the discussion.
The event brought together faculty from different disciplines to talk about the links of food and culture. Don Stull, professor of
Still covered the area of production, having researched multilingual and multicultural work forces at meat packing plants.
"Food is an integral part of culture," Stull said. "It's
essential to life."
Koch looked at social aspect of moving food from the supermarket shelves to homes and where people gather their information about nutrition and the worries they have.
"It involves connecting every day people with the corporate people making decisions," she said.
Her studies focus on the dietary needs of families with children, and specifically, obesity.
Steele examines pediatric obesity with funding from foundations, state and federal sources.
"It's hard to open the newspaper or turn on a news report without hearing about obesity,"
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COMMUNITY
Grant program lets artists develop
BY ALISON CUMBOW alisonc@kansan.com
Mark Cowardin is interested in the connection of people and nature — a connection he tries to show through his sculpture.
Cowardin, a 1998 graduate and professor of sculpture at Johnson County Community College, will exhibit his art in a gallery this fall. What he's hoping to do this spring, however, is bring his sculpture to the streets.
To do that, Cowardin will apply for a new program through The Spencer Museum of Art and Kansas City's Charlotte Street Foundation to be awarded up to $4,000 for his project.
The Rocket Grants program will provide $40,000 to artists within an 80-mile radius originating from downtown Kansas City, which includes Lawrence.
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