10A NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2000
MUSIC
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009
KJHK hosts eight local bands at annual Farmer's Ball tonight
Final four will play at the Jackpot on Saturday
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
When Richard Gintowt reflects on his musical influences he's quick to mention some of his favorite bands such as Wilco and The Shins. But he knows most of his true musical influences are ghosts of the past — bands he said he listened to growing up.
Gintowt, vocalist for the band Hidden Pictures, will perform tomorrow night at KJHK's annual Farmer's Ball at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
"Green Day was a big influence before they sucked." he said.
Tom Johnson, general manager and program adviser for KJHK. said Farmer's Ball was a station tradition dating back to the early 1990s.
The band Hidden Pictures, from left to right, Nate Holt, Pat Tomek, Richard Gintowt, Michelle Sanders, and Alan Brandsted, will play Farmer's Ball tomorrow night at the Bottleneck. They will be performing alongside eight other Lawrence bands in hopes of taking top prize recording time.
"It's a really good launch pad for new bands," Johnson said.
the Bottleneck and four finalists will advance to Saturday's show at The jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts St.
Eight bands will perform at
Logan Nickles, Stillwater, Okla., senior and JKHK station manager, said the station received 67 entries this year. The KJHK staff picked the top eight entries using a rating scale.
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Bands will advance to round two by a critic vote and the audience will select the winner Saturday.
The winner will receive recording time at Black Lodge Recording, band merchandise from Blue Collar Press and the opening act spot at the KJHK Stop DayEve Party Dec. 10 at the lacknot.
Though this will be a Farmer's Ball debut for Hidden Pictures, Gintowt said he has been a regular at Farmer's Ball since he worked as the music director for KJHK
Read Jayplay's feature for more information on tickets, the bands and the hall.
when he attended the University from 1999 to 2003.
"I've always thought there was a really good music scene here and I still feel that way" he said.
Gintowt graduated with a degree in journalism and currently works as a writer and photographer for Lawrence.com.
The band decided to submit music to reconnect with the KJHK music scene, Gintowt said. He and fellow musician Michelle Sanders played in Lawrence original The Ok Jones from 2000 to 2007 before creating Hidden Pictures last year with band members Alan Brandsted, Nate
Holt and Pat Tomek.
Aside from the publicity and prizes offered to participants in the Farmer's Ball, Gintowt said he was excited to see other bands in the competition.
Katlyn Conrov, vocalist and
keyboard player, will be performing with Wild and Wooly on Friday night. Conroy said she had wanted to play at Farmer's Ball since she started playing in Lawrence bars at age fifteen.
are always very talented and I feel honored to perform," she said. "I've been impressed with everyone who has won in the past."
"The bands in the Farmer's Ball
— Edited by Jonathan Hermes
EDUCATION
Gonzaga University commences hate studies academic program
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. — Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Hutus hate the Tutsis?
Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Morl of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies.
The goal is to explain a condition that has plagued humanity since one caveman looked askance at another.
"What makes hate tick?" Mohr, director of Gonzaga's Institute for Action Against Hate, wondered. "How can we stop it?"
Gonzaga founded the institute a decade ago after some black law students received threatening letters. It has since started a Journal of Hate Studies, hosted a conference and offered its first class on hatred last spring.
The hope is that other universities will follow suit, said Ken Stern of the American Jewish Committee in New York, who has been involved in the effort. "We wanted to approach hate more intelligently," he said.
Stern, who has spent 20 years battling anti-Semitism, said the need for hate studies became obvious when people started fighting groups like the Aryan Nations, which once flourished in this area.
Opponents galvanized against the Aryans, but didn't really know how best to fight them. Stern said.
"We were flying by the seat of our pants," he said. "There was no testable theory."
There is not even a good definition of hate, Stern contends.
Philosophers have offered numerous definitions: Rene Descartes said hate was the urge to withdraw from something that is thought bad. Aristotle saw hate as the incurable desire to annihilate an object.
In psychology, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness.
Gonzaga, a Jesuit university
best known for its basketball team. offered a class on the subject taught by five professors from different disciplines.
Student Kayla De Los Reyes was in that class, and said the information both horrified her and gave her hope.
"Hate is something that is part of the human emotional makeup," she said. "Everyone feels it at one point or another. You have to learn to control it."
The goal is to create an academic home where a variety of disciplines, including history, psychology, religious studies, anthropology and political science, can be brought together to focus on hate. It's the same sort of effort that led
to the creation of disciplines like black studies or women's studies, Mohr said.
Such academic efforts are not without controversy. Some skeptics fear they are little more than attacks on the dominant power structure.
"This stuff tends to be one dimensional and presumes the guilt of an archetypal white male," said Glenn Rickett, spokesman for the National Association of Scholars.
Heather Veeder, a graduate assistant for the institute, said the organization has an important mission
"Hate thrives in areas not illuminated by education," she said.
But Stern said it is too easy to blame ignorance for hate. People
can have plenty of knowledge about something and still hate it, he said. The problem is when one person or group can separate another person or group from their humanity, thinking of them as an "other," Stern said.
"We dehumanize them and justify violence against them," Stern said.
There is no simple answer to why people hate, Mohr said. Hate can be sparked by greed, or fear, or a tribe bonding together in opposition to another. People looking to belong will hate others to fit into a group, he said.
"We can change," Mohr said.
"There has to be hope."
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