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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 13, 1993
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Don't hit that zit!
Although acne is generally caused by genetic tendencies and normal hormonal changes, there are a few basic steps that may reduce the risk of developing acne.
oUse fairly mild soap.
- Wash affected area gently with hands, instead of a rough or abrasive material, once a day.
o Some nonprescription medicines that contain benzoll-peroxide may be helpful.
*Reduce stress level.
Source: Lee Bittenbender, dermatologist
Dave Campbell / KAN3AN
Zits zap self-image but can be cured
Proper treatment clears skin best; picking does not
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Although Corey Taylor is never thrilled to get a pimple, she doesn't let it bother her a great deal.
"I guess it's just a nuisance," said Taylor, Overland Park junior. "They don't bother me to the point that I'll stay home for the day."
Taylor is one of many students with acne. Lawrence dermatologist Lee Bittenbender said acne was the result of genetics and normal hormonal changes. Although acne is often associated with teenagers, Bittenbender said it was not uncommon to experience acne as an adult. Acne can even affect infants and senior citizens.
Acne also can play a role in self image.
"Everyone's concerned about their appearance, and when there is something right there on your face, that can be disconcerting to say the least," Bittenbender said.
There are ways to make the pimples disappear.
"There are good, effective treatments for acne," he said. "It isn't something you live with or outgrow."
Bittenbender said that, in the first stage of acne, hormones affect the cells around the openings of pores and tend to stick together and plug the pores, which results in black and white marks.
When the pores are clogged, oil produced from glands cannot get out, and the bacteria normally present starts to act on the oil, forming red, inflamed bumps.
Acne is not the result of improper skin care or oily skin, Bittenbender said. Although washing the skin will remove surface oil and provide a clean feeling, the idea that frequent washing will prevent acne is misleading.
"You could wash five times a day with abrasive scrub or Borax or whatever you use and still have acne," Bittenbender said.
Popping pimples, a procedure Bittenbender calls "bathroom surgery," is not recommended because it may cause scarring or worsen the situation.
"There's a world of difference between what I do here with the right instruments and light and what people do with their fingernails in front of bathroom mirrors," he said.
Darren Alexander, Missoula, Mont,
freshman, said he tried to avoid acne
by washing his face two or three times
a day.
*Acme is just annoying.* Alexander said. "It makes you self-conscious."
ON CAMPUS
The Kansan prints a daily calendar of campus events as a service to the University community. Announcements must be submitted on form provided by 5 p.m. two days prior to desired day of publication at 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. No submissions will be taken by telephone.
OAKS—Nontraditional student organization will hold a brown bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove G in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Gerry Vernon at 864-7317.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold a forum, "Russia and Eastern Europe: Current Trends and the Legacy of Communism," from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today in Danforth Chanel.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold an informational meeting for students interested in studying in French-speaking countries at 4 p.m. today in 4010 Wesco Hall. For more information, call 864-3742.
KU Gamers and Role players will meet at 5:30 p.m. today on the third floor of the Burge Union. For more information, call 864-7316.
Soapbox, sponsored by KJHK, will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today in front of Wescoe Hall. For more information, call Jenny Schwab at 749-7684.
Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Amy Trainer at 841-4484.
Latin American Solidarity will sponsor a rice and beans dinner and lecture at 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
■ Middle East Club and The Association of the United States Army will sponsor a lecture at 4 p.m. today at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Travis Carlisle at 749-0560.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6 p.m. today in 207 Robinson Center. For more information, call Jacob Wright at 749-2084 or Jason Anishanslian at 843-3099.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a Catholic student discussion group and sack lunch at 1:10 p.m. today (directly following 12:30 Mass) at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
- Women's Student Union will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Kansas Union. Ask at the candy counter for exact location. For more information, call the WSU Workspace at 864-7337.
The Office of New Student Orientation will sponsor Re-Orientation form 6:30 to 7:30 tonight in Oliver Hall. For more information, call Keith at 864-4270.
KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International
Pre-Physical Therapy will meet at 7 tonight at the first floor conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center. For more information, call Tamara Fiter at 749-1786.
Watkins Memorial Health Center will sponsor an eating-disorders support group meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the second floor conference room in Watkins. For more information, call Sarah Kirk at 864-4121.
KU Kempo will meet at 7 tonight in 1130 Robinson Center. For more information, call Mandana Ershadi at 842-4713.
KU Sail Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Tom Connard at 841-4597.
KU Ad Club will meet at 7 tonight in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. For more information, call Wade Baxter at 749-7487 or Ed Schager at 864-4358.
KU Hemp Club will meet at 7:30 onnight on the third floor in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Kenda Sessions at 843-2566.
FACTS (Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students) will meet at 8 tonight at the first floor conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Butoh dance to grace Lied
Japanese artists perform style full of imagery
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
Five masculine bodies, painted in white, will slowly contort to create images symbolic of nature for an audience at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lied Center.
Sankai Juku, a Japanese Butoh Dance Company of five men, will present "The Darkness Calms Down in Space," as part of its fourth U.S. tour since the group began dancing together in the 1970s.
Bonnie Sue Stein, Butoh expert,
said the Butoh style of dance was unique and unlike any form of modern, ballet or jazz dancing. She said it was important for the audience to view the performance with an open mind.
"What you'll see will be both shocking and provocative at certain points," Stein said. "But much of it is
Butoh was a post-modern dance form that became popular after World War II, Stein said. An urban movement that began in the late 1950s in Tokyo, Japan, Butoh was developed as a type of protest against Western world cultures by Japanese dance student Tatsuhi Hiikata.
very elegant and beautiful to watch."
"The Japanese felt they were going to be absorbed in the Western culture after the war so they created this renegade style of dance largely in protest." Stein said.
Butoh is a style of dance distinguished by the portrayal of images of nature through slow gestures and movements of the body. Animals, rain and trees are examples of the imagery portrayed by the Butoh dancers. Stein said the different metamorphoses of the body in the Butoh style of dance represented symbols of birth and death.
The dancers, led by Ushio Amagatsu, are covered in white paint for their performances. The paint accentuates their movements and expressions to bring out the imagery they create, Stein said.
"Nothing is more striking than seeing a white body coiled up in the fetal position," Stein said. "People must come with a clean slate, ready to watch and enjoy the images instead of coming to name and analyze them."
Besides operating her own dance company, Stein works with the Japanese in America and abroad translating and writing articles about Butoh. She will conduct a discussion and slide presentation before and after the show to orientate the audience to Butoh.
Because Butoh is unlike any other style of dance, many of the motions are not taught, but rather are felt by the Butoh dancers and learned through repetition, Stein said. She said that each dancer had his own style of expression.
Stein, who owns her own dance company in New York, became interested in Butoh when she studied classical Japanese theater in 1975.
"When I saw Butch for the first time, it really stuck me," she said.
Patrick Suzeau, dance instructor in the school of music and dance, said he was unfamiliar with Butoh, but he said he had seen Butoh performances
Tonight's show
Japanese Butoh Dance Company in Shijima presents:
Discussion after the performance
Pre-performance discussion, slide show and orientation with Bonnie Sue Stein, Butoh expert 6:30 p.m. in the Lied Center dance rehearsal studio
"The Darkness Calms Down in Space" — 8 tonight at the Lied Center
Tickets on sale at the Lied Center Box Office and Murphy Box Office Student tickets available at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union for $8
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in the past. He said it was a unique style unlike anything he had seen, and a style that was difficult to describe.
Students petition for human rights
"Butoh is a fascinating theater, and it can be very powerful to watch," Suzeau said.
Amnesty group seeks to increase rights awareness
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Calling on students to help ensure the right to life, liberty and security of people around the world, the KU group of Amnesty International spoke on the steps of Wescoe Hall yesterday.
Through a series of real-life examples and poems, the group marked Amnesty International's Day of Action by citing reported human rights violations of native peoples worldwide, said Danielle Myron, Vermillon, S.D., senior and president of the KU chapter.
Group members also encouraged listeners to sign two petitions calling for investigations into alleged human rights violations against natives of Botswana and Venezuela.
"Amnesty wants people to realize the violations committed against indigenous people," Myron said. "The Amnesty groups around the country are all going to send the same petitions to the same governments. That's hard for them ignore."
Melissa Lacey / KANSAN
Gurpal Hundal, Olathe freshman, right, solicits signatures for Amnesty International petitions in front of Wescoe Hall. Matt Brown, Overland Park junior, left, and John Becker, Boulder, Colo., senior, signed the petitions yesterday along with about 100 others
Because of the reportedly high number of human rights abuses against native peoples, Myron said, Amnesty could have had at least 100 petitions for students to sign.
Colleen O'Leary, acting director of the Amnesty International Midwest regional office, said yesterday's event by the organization coincided with the Oct. 12 Columbus Day date.
"For Amnesty, every violation is a pressing issue," Myron said. "We have just two to sign to give students some focus on the issues."
Members of the human rights group gave similar speeches in 70 countries around the world yesterday, Myron said.
"I agree with the whole premise of this," said Chris Johnson, Lawrence senior. "We need to take a look at the laws of these different countries. Something like this doesn't get much press. The feeling is that it's so insignificant."
"The idea is to have Amnesty's people all over the world reach other people all over the world." O'Leary said.
Some KU students said that they signed the two petitions to show their support for finding the truth of what violations might have occurred.
Johnson's roommate, Brad Farkar.
Wichita senior, said he hoped that by signing the petition, he could express his concern for the issue of human rights.
"I did it to demand an investigation," Farkar said. "It's not asking for people to be put in jail, but just to find out what happened."
Farkar said he had signed similar petitions in the past.
"I don't know the exact number," Farkar said. "But I hope the dictators of the world have come to fear my name by now."
"For Amnesty every violation is a pressing issue."
Danielle Myron President of the KU group for Amnesty International
KJHK apology for show sent to LesBiGays
CAMPUS in brief
In a letter directed to the co-directors of Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Services of Kansas, KJHK apologized Tuesday for a last-minute program change on the "Talk Radio with Russ Johnson" show, which aired Monday.
The show featured Eric Moore, a member of LesBiGay S OK, and Rev. Fred Phelps, a Topeka minister and outspoken anti-gay protester. Moore said that he and Jennifer Papanek, co director of LesBiGay S OK, were originally scheduled to speak on the show in regards to National Coming Out Day and campus lesbizgay issues.
Chris Beurman, graduate teaching assistant at KJHK, said in the letter that it was KJHK's responsibility to provide all sides of every issue, and that it was also an obligation and newsworthy to provide a forum to all opinions which may be deemed unpopular.
Beurman said time restraints before the show prevented proper notification to Moore and Papanek. He said that LesBiGays had been well represented on KJHK in the past and the station pledged continued service.
Papanek would not comment on the letter Tuesday evening because she said she had not yet seen it. She said LesBiGaySOK had a written response to Monday's show which would be released today.
Hispanic engineers win academic contest
KU's Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, or S.H.P.E., won first place in the S.H.P.E. Academic Olympic Tournament during the regional conference in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday.
KU's team defeated representatives from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; New Mexico State University; University of Colorado, Boulder; the Colorado School of Mines and the University of New Mexico.
The four students who attended the conference were Gerardo Prado, Rosario, Argentina, senior; Herman Lucke, Santa Cruz, Chile, senior; Marcelo Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
junior; and Pedro Echeverria,
Quito, Ecuador, junior.
In February, six members of S.H.P.E attended the national conference in Chicago. Prado and Echeverria sat together and watched the finals of the academic tournament.
Echeveria said he told Prado then they would compete next year.
"When we won Gerardo came up to me and said, 'you were right Pedro, we're here now."
The students drove nonstop for about 15 hours and arrived in Albuquerque at 8 a.m. Saturday. The tournament began at 3 p.m.
"We hardly had any sleep," he said.
Echeverria said he and the other students studied for the tournament at night by flashlight.
"We hardly had any sleep," he said. KU's chapter will compete against the winners from the other five S.H.P.E. regions at the national conference Feb. 4-5, 1994, in Austin, Texas.
Echeverria said he was confident
about KU's chances at the national conference.
"I wouldn't hesitate in saying that we might win," he said.
KU graduate student first to win scholarship
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Lawrence graduate student Lisa Dorrill was recently named the first recipient of the Ewell L. Newman Prize for scholarship in American historical prints. Dorrill, a doctoral candidate in art history, was selected based on her essay, "Illustrating the Ideal City: 19th-Century Bird's-Eye Views of American Cities." The essay will be reprinted in the fall issue of "Imprin," the scholarly journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society of Worcester, Mass. The society sponsored the nationwide competition.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.