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Five coalitions working on campaign strategies for Student Senate race
By Matt Taylor
Kennon staff writer
Some candidates for Student Senate's top two positions already are converting their office-holding aspirations into campaign strategies.
Jeff Morris, student body vice president, said yesterday that five coalitions had told him about their plans to run for office.
Morris said some coalitions had begun campaigning in October. Some candidates said the campaign season started too early this year.
However, all of the candidates in the five coalitions Morris listed said they had not started campaigning, and now name a coalition that had started.
Eleanor Mcnish, Senate elections committee chairman, said candidates for president or vice president could not officially file for office until Feb. 28. Senate will accept applications for president and vice president from Feb. 28 to March 7. Applications for Senate seats will be accepted March 7-21. Elections will be April 11-12.
"Campaigns traditionally don't start until the candidates file," said Alimeh Hall, vice presidential candidate. "But candidates have recently started their campaigns earlier in the year."
Todd Boerger, presidential candidate on the Real Representation coalition, said candidates who started campaigning in the fall were starting too early.
He said he decided to run for office during last semester's final period. Hall said her coalition was put together last month.
"I question their motive," Boerger said. "They are jumping the gun. I don't think that's what the students want."
Jeff Milligan, vice presidential candidate, said the timing of a coalition's campaigning depended on its strategy.
"We're looking at which coalition will peak at the right time," Milligan said. "We don't want to peak too early and haven't done any камень на этом месте, but we ready to do anything until the end of the month."
Greg Hughes, presidential candidate for the Fast Break coalition, said the main campaign thrust would be after Soring Break.
intensity," Huguen said. "The attention span of this election is only about one month, so we want to maintain the intensity closer to the election."
Brad Sanders, presidential candidate for the New Blood coalition,
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"We don't want to start too soon." Sanders said. "There's not a big interest on campus right now. We'll wait until around sorrowing break."
"We want to build momentum and
Boerger said he knew how to organize his campaign.
"You first start on a personal level with students." Boerger said. "You look at the present system and analyze what can be improved. Then you form ideas of change and gather people who agree on those ideas."
Morris said one of the best ways to organize a campaign was to go with a plan.
"It's pretty tough, but you have to campaign by word of mouth," Morris said. "Visit the residence halls, the Greek houses and the clubs."
"Get a good grip on what's going on. Some people say that, the other way around."
Managing the campaign can fall into different hands. Boerger said he chose not to get a campaign manager.
"To do a good job, a president and vice president should manage their own campaigns," Boerger said. "That gives them hands-on experience, and they are not subject to misrepresentation."
Milligan said his coalition had a manager and a support group.
"They do the nuts and bolts of camaigning." he said.
Morris said the majority of the coalitions he was familiar with had campaign managers.
Senate limits candidates' campaign spending. Morris said a coalition could not exceed $1,820 in campaign spending. A ticket comprising only presidential and vice presidential candidates is limited to $700, and an individual running for a Senate seat is limited to $70. Expenses incurred before the filing deadline are included in the spending limit.
Both Milligan and Boerger the highest costs of their campaigns.
Morris said any student taking at least one credit hour was eligible to file for Senate positions. He said candidates could choose to run by themselves or with a coalition.
Mahler to give solo show at KU
Modern dancer also will teach open workshop
By Ines Shuk
Kansan staff writer
Barbara Mahler is conducting a weeklong dance workshop at KU on movement efficiency.
New York modern dancer, choreographer and movement therapist Barbara Mahler will perform tonight at the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre in Robinson Center.
The 7 p.m. recital will be Mahler's only solo presentation during her six-day stay at the University of Kansas.
"I'm looking forward to seeing her performing," said Muriel Cohan, assistant professor of dance.
"Barbars possesses a very strong spirit and a body that has been trained carefully." she said. "She is somebody who is an good as her."
Mahler's first visit to KU began Sunday. She is giving movement technique classes with the dance department until Friday.
At 7 p.m. tomorrow, also at the dance theater in Robinson, she will present a workshop open to the public.
Mahler discovered dance when she was 20 years old while studying to be an elementary teacher at
Cohen said dance students were enthusiastic because of the opportunity to learn Mahler's techniques.
"Working with Mahler is a very empowering experience. She helps people increase their movement efficiency," she said.
Mahler said students planning to attend tomorrow's workshop could expect to learn new ideas about how to work with their bodies and about their physical limitations and strengths.
"I want to teach them how to apply different techniques to their own physical characteristics. They will learn how to work 'from the floor,' that is, how to move using the floor," she said.
"Efficiency comes from the coordination of all the parts of the body, which is an organized machine," she said.
Mahler said her teachings emphasized efficiency, fundamentals of movement and coordination techniques.
Hunter College in New York City.
"I changed majors in junior year," she said. "I thought it was too late to start dancing, but a dance teacher told me." "She believed that everybody could move and dance if they wanted, to no matter their are.
really want to do it, you should move. Talent only has to do with being able to work hard and to be committed."
"If you need to move, if you
Five years ago, Mahler became assistant director of the Susan Klein School of Dance in New York where she teaches classes in Klein Technique.
The technique is a system of repatterning, coordination and injury prevention that helps dancers and athletes prolong their performing lives.
"Mahler is a living example of somebody who started at age 20 and that 17 years later is becoming better and better." Cohan said.
Artist's work captures racism
By Jonathan Plummer
Special to the Kansan
Editor's note: this is the second part in an ongoing series profiling Black leaders.
In his autobiography, "A Choice of Weapons," Gordon Parks says a man's actions and accomplishments choose choices of weapons against history.
In breaking ground for Blacks through his work as a musician, composer, author, film maker and photographer, Parks' choice of weapons — self-respect and pride — have served him well.
Although Parks became the first Black photographer for Life magazine in 1948, his most famous work may be the pictures he took while he was with the Farm Security Administration, a New Deal program that employed photographers. There Parks sought to capture the faces of people suffering the pain of racism.
"You could not photograph him (a bigot) and say, 'This is a bigot,'
Gordon Parks
Born: Nov. 30,
1912, Fort Scott,
Kan.
Occupation: Photographer, Author and Film Director.
because bigots have a way of looking just like everybody else." Parks said in the book "The Photographs of Gordon Pears," by Martin Bush. "What the camera had to do was expose the evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the discrimination and the bigotry by showing the people who suffered most under it."
Contribution: Innovator in music, literature, film and photography. One of the most famous Black Kansans.
Homeless count for '90 census
According to Contemporary Authors, Parks also has worked in the moving picture medium and has directed five movies, including the adaptation of his novel "The Learning Tree."
Bv Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
Editor's note: This is the second of two articles about the 1990 federal census.
Census workers nationwide will peer under bridges, under boxes and into abandoned buildings next month to find those who have no homes.
March 20 and 21 are designated T-nights, or transient nights, when workers will try to count the homeless population, said Vicki Meredith, special places supervisor for the 1990 federal census. Census workers never before have counted homeless people.
In Lawrence, about a dozen federal census workers will take to the streets in pairs from 6 p.m. to midnight to count the homeless, said Ben Arzu, coordinator of the government's census awareness program. He will visit homeless shelters and places frequented by homeless people.
From a.4.m, to 6.a.m., workers will count people leaving abandoned
buildings, Arzu said. Workers will not be sent into those buildings because of liability concerns.
"We will gather as much information as we can," Arzu said. "Even if we can't get a name, we will at least get a head count."
Jeannie Blankenkhip, director for the Salvation Army Safehouse in Lawrence, said she intended to do more with the children and would not force residents to comply.
She said she would not let census officers visit if residents were burglary suspects.
The safehouse, which typically houses between 29 and 26 guests, is now more of a transitional shelter than it has been in the past. Blankenship said. Many families whose members are trying to find work and more permanent housing use the shelter, she said.
On March 31, census workers will check local hotels and motels for temporary residents. Arzu said.
"We are not talking about the Holiday Inn-type hotels," Arzu said.
"We'll be looking at relatively cheap places, flophouses, where people can stay for a week at a time."
Barb Smith, executive director of United Way of Douglas County, is working as a volunteer to ensure that special populations, those who do not live in regular family-type housing, are included in the census.
"To ignore the special populations is to ignore a significant portion of the population," said Smith, who estimated that between 40 and 100 people in Lawrence fell into this category.
The Complete Count Committee, appointed by the Lawrence City Commission to ensure an accurate count of the Douglas County population, helped census workers gather a record of homeless people could be found.
"We think we isolated any pockets where there might be lost souls," said Steve Lopes, committee worker. "We're all pretty zealous about this. An accurate count serves the interest of everyone in the community."
Fire causes evacuations
Kansan staff writer
By Christine Reinolds
Two fires last night in the trash chute at Ellsworth Hall twice caused the evacuation of residents.
Fire alarms failed during the first fire, which was extinguished by sprinklers before firefighters arrived. The alarms were repaired and were activated by the second fire.
Three fire trucks responded to the first call at 8:28 p.m., said Mjq. Dan Morrow of the Lawrence Fire Department. No damage was reported at Ellsworth, 1734 Engel Road.
The cause of the first fire is unknown, Morrow said.
and resident of Ellsworth, said the alarm boxes pulled during the first fire did not work.
"The elevator alarms were turned on after everyone was evacuated." Burditt said. "I was running up and down the hall knocking on doors."
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