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DANCE
VOLUME 121 ISSUE 65
APOLLO BUTTERFLY
Company showcases talent in fall recital
BY ANNA ARCHIBALD aarchibald@kansan.com
The soft, pattering sounds of bare feet and well-worn dance shoes from backstage freeze. The light slowly illuminates the auditorium. Then, as music begins to pour from the speakers, the dancers glide into view.
Tonight at 7:30, the University Dance Company will perform the second night of its annual fall concert, featuring the work of worldrenowned guest choreographer Bill Evans.
This year, Evans, who Hilding said was one of the top tap dancers in the country, visited the University at the beginning of October to choreograph "Jukebox," the show's closing number. Hilding said it brought the fantasy of Hollywood to the stage.
ment and one of the show's five choreographers, said the choreographers have been able to tie all of the dances together with fantastic elements.
Jerel Hilding, associate professor and chair of the dance depart-
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WHO: Department of dance
WHAT: University Dance Company fall concert
WHEN: Friday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m.
A caterpillar's guide to the galaxy
WHERE: Lied Center
TICKET COST: $15 public,
$10 students and seniors.
Call the Lied Center at 785-
864-2787 for additional
ticket information.
BY JUSTIN LEVERETT
jleverett@kansan.com
Three monarch caterpillars bred at the University were on board the space shuttle Atlantis as it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center earlier this week. They were the first of their species to voyage into space.
Chip Taylor, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, traveled to Florida to deliver the three caterpillars to NASA and watch the shuttle take off. Taylor is the director of Monarch Watch, a group of students, professors and volunteers dedicated to the study of monarch butterflies.
Taylor said the goal of sending the caterpillars into space was to test the effects of zero gravity on their development. He said he wanted to test if caterpillars were still capable
developing normally and emerg- as butterflies, even in a
butterflies, even in a low-gravity environ-
The opportunity to involve elementary schools the countr
with the project, he said,
was too good to pass up.
Taylor sent a request to schools to purchase caterpillars to observe along with the caterpillars in space. He said he expected only twenty schools to be interested in the program, but when he sent the request, he received 870 responses.
Jackie Getz, a volunteer for Monarch Watch, said she was impressed with the number of schools who showed interest in participating in the program.
"They had such an overwhelming response that they came up with plan B — They would let everybody do the parallel experiment."
In eight days, Monarch Watch volunteers packed caterpillar kits and shipped them overnight to 425 of the 870 elementary schools that responded.
Taylor and his volunteers devoted the last two weeks to packing and delivering caterpillars. He called it a "monumental effort." He said the spectacle of the lift-off took his mind off caterpillars for the first time in weeks.
"You think of this, and the power that goes
into this, and, I tell you,
I wasn't thinking about
those caterpillars," he
said. "I was thinking
about that crew."
" They weren't even sure they made it through the launch," he said. "It's all cutting edge."
CAMPUS
University's alcohol task force receives new statistics
AlcoholEdu survey confirms problems in drinking habits
BY JESSE RANGEL jrangel@kansan.com
The University's alcohol task force received its first glimpse Thursday of the freshman survey results collected by the AlcoholEdu survey earlier this fall.
The University had a higher percentage of respondents than the national average who binge drink and drink problematically, called double binge drinking. It also had a higher percentage of respondents who drink in bars, restaurants, fraternity and sorority houses and a lower percentage of respondents who abstain from drinking. The University mandated the survey and alcohol
education course to all incoming students under the age of 22 starting in August.
No other data was available at the meeting.
Brandon Busteed, CEO of Outside the Classroom, Inc.,
when producers AlcoholEdu. presented the University's data to the members of the task force at their meeting and also showed them a chart outlining the effectiveness of programs at other schools that
curbing binge drinking.
Busted said there should be a focus not on treating individual cases, but rather on treating a community. He said that in a survey of 25 college campuses there was a lot of student support to
The University had a percentage of students who binge drink and drink problematically that was higher than the national average.
"There is a silent majority of students out there that are indeed going to be supportive of the moves that this task force makes on policies and enforcement," Busteed said. "Unfortunately, you're going
aim to reduce binge drinking.
to hear about the handful of students who are unhappy with those policies more than those who are supportive of it. But I want to give you some comfort that this is a very real trend out there."
recommend specific policy implementations for the University, he presented a chart showing the cost versus the effectiveness of campus initiatives nationally. He
Busteed said that while, he couldn't
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ALCOHOLEDU KU SURVEY STATISTICS
The University mandated for this semester that all incoming students take an online alcohol course, including an anonymous survey component. Brandon Busteed, CEO of Outside The Classroom, released some statistics to the University's Alcohol Task Force Thursday. The Percentage of respondents who:
Said they have done binge drinking
5 drinks for men,4 for women in a two-hour period
44. 7
KU respondents
35 National
Said they abstain from drinking alcohol
National average
and they have done problematic drinking 10 drinks for men,8 for women in a two-hour period
40. 6 KU respondents
respondents
50. 7
average
Said they have drunk in a fraternity or sorority house
12. 9
18.4
KU
respondents
Said they have drunk at a bar or restaurant
19. 1 KU respondent:
13. 6
index
14.9
KU
respondents
s OK to drink on a school night
respondents
National average
7. 8
17. 9 KU
respondents
Classifieds. ...6B Opinion...5A
Crossword...4A Sports...1B
Horoscopes...4A Sudoku...4A
average
12. 6
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