UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Friday, January 31, 1997
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Parenting workshop planned
Program designed to help children deal with violence
By Sarah Chadwick Special to the Kansan
Founders of a group called the Institute for Peace and Justice will make a presentation and hold a workshop about families and nonviolence this Friday and Saturday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
Jim and Kathy McGinnis of St. Louis, authors of *Parenting for Peace and Safety*, started the Institute for Peace and Justice in 1970.
"The initiation came out of the Vietnam War, civil rights — we were very influenced by Martin Luther King and also Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent social change," Kathy McGinnis said. "It's a real belief that things can change nonviolently."
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The couple also started the Parenting for Peace and Justice Network, which Kathy McGinnis said was the most important thing they did.
"It's how to look at peace in the family.
Jim and Kathy McGinnis, co-authors of Parenting for Peace and Safety, will present a workshop tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
Holcombe said the most important thing about the workshop was that it addressed a cultural influences that could affect families detrimentally.
Registration for tomorrow's workshop begins at 9 a.m. The workshop is from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and costs $10 per person and $20 per couple or family. The price includes a soup-and-bread lunch. Child care is provided for $7 per child for the day. For more information, call Rod Stafford at 841-8614.
The presentation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight and is free.
ROTC prepared for meet
"Friday's presentation is for families and children to learn how to develop an atmosphere of nonviolence and how to help children deal with violence in the media, toys and in the real world," Kathy McGinnis said. "Saturday is an intergenerational workshop, where we will do things such as self-esteem building, family meetings and nonviolent toys and play."
It has to be a part of what we do as a parent," Kathy McGinnis said. "It's not just for parents but also for other people who work with children. It is a strategy to implement peace and justice in your everyday life. We have a newsletter that comes out six times a year, which is our biggest source of communication."
Team has high expectations for competition in Colorado
The Rev. Thad Holcombe, campus pastor at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said he and his wife used some of the strategies with their daughters.
"Some of the strategies and suggestions they made we've used in our family, and they work," Holcombe said. "One is a family meeting. You don't necessarily schedule them, but call them as needed. One person talks at a time, using the 'I feel' or 'I think' instead of 'you did.' This gives everyone time to express ideas and hopefully come to a conclusion."
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By Chris Dye Special to the Kansan
Expectations are high for the KU Navy and Marine ROTC drill team as they leave today for Colorado to compete in the University of Colorado Drill Meet.
"I think we can finish in the top three," said Staff Sgt. Donn Dunkle. "We have a lot of talent, and we are well-prepared."
$ ^{8} $ The team placed fourth in a meet at Iowa State University in November.
The ROTC competitions have two parts. One is the squad section, made up of nine students. The other is the platoon section, with 14 students.
"Both the Nebraska and Colorado teams that beat us will be here this weekend," Dunkle said. "We were very close to beating them last time. If we had done one move differently, we could have won."
The two sections do not perform different drills; the only difference is in the number of people involved.
Matt Chambliss
d St Louis junior
Both sections are judged by active duty officers, and they compete against Navy and Marine ROTCs from eight other universities.
The groups will be judged on the accuracy and precision of their drills. This includes how well they march and their rifle techniques. Guidelines for these drills come from the Marine Corps Guide to Movement.
"The judges can be really picky, but that's fine because this teaches us discipline and teamwork," said platoon commander Matt Chamb-
Matt Chambles
platoon commander and St. Louis junior
"The judges can be really picky, but that's fine because it teaches us discipline and teamwork."
"What we do is kind of like what goes on at the very beginning of the Tom Cruise movie, a *Few Good Men*, where they do all the rifle work," said midshun Beth Mulvenon, Lenexa freshman.
liss, St. Louis junior.
Participants are judged on where their hands are on the rifle and how clean their movements are in commands such as right-shoulder arms.
Judges will ask participants questions about such things as their rifles and who is the acting secretary of defense. They also must know general orders, code of conduct and the leadership traits and principals of the Navy.
Preparation for the meets is not easy. ROTC members practice at 6 a.m. every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in Robinson Center.
"It is really hard work practicing that early for three days a week, especially when most of us are up until 2 in the morning doing homework," Chamblliss said. "It is very demanding, but it pays off."
Ex-employee,wife leave KU $1 million
Paying for college just became a little easier for some KU students.
A former KU employee and his wife left $1 million to the University for scholarships. Clyde and Una Babb established two trusts, each for $500,000, that will provide students with scholarships.
By Kevin Bates
After Clyde Babb died in April of 1995, the first half of the money became available, and the University just began doling the money out to students for next semester.
"These kind of trusts are popular," said John Scarffe, director of communications for the KU Endowment Association. "People can make a gift to the Endowment Association and receive a tax deduction. They continue to receive payments, but after they die, the payments go to the Endowment Association."
The Babb Scholarship Fund is an endowed scholarship fund, Scarffe said, which means that the income generated from the $500,000 is available for scholarships. The Endowment Association gives 5 percent of the princip al to the University, so about $25,000 will go to students next semester.
Kansan staff writer
"This is an unrestricted scholarship," Scarfe said. "These generally go to a quite few students."
The University Scholarship Center will award money as it sees fit as part of financial aid packages that include other scholarships, loans and grants.
Clyde Babb worked at the University for 25 years and retired in 1973 as the assistant to the dean of continuing education.
As a lieutenant colonel in the Army, Babb and his wife were stationed in several states. His wife worked as a substitute teacher at local schools, and in 1949 the Babbs returned to Lawrence.
John Pattinson, director of academic and professional programs at continuing education, said he worked with Babb for 17 years.
"They didn't have any children of their own, and they were interested in young people," Pattinson said. "They were fond of the University. That's why they did what they did."
Museum throws ceramics show
Other objects in the show were designed specifically as art and luxury items.
"Some of the teapots, plates and things were used, and I think that's interesting because it connects the people in a way that paintings or sculptures don't," she said.
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Earle said that the cross section of pieces in the show illustrated the relationship between utility and luxury.
Special to the Kansan
The exhibit, Ceramics From the Collection, showcases selected pieces of the museum's European and American permanent ceramic collection.
That coffee cup you drank from at breakfast could end up in a museum in a few hundred years, as have the many ceramic pieces at the Spencer Museum of Art this month.
The pieces range from the early 16th century to 1991.
pean and American art for the museum.
"The objects themselves are interesting because some of them were designed to be used," said Susan Earle, curator of the show and acting curator of Euro-
The show includes a 1982 metallic earthenware chalice by Beatrice Wood, an 18th century cauliflower teapot and a 1919 teapot in the shape of a skull bearing an anti-war message.
The show was put together in part to complement A Centennial Celebration, a ceramics show at the Art and Design Building.
"The objects themselves are interesting because some of them were designed to be used."
Susan Earle
curator, Spencer Museum of Art
The show at the Art and Design building was organized by the American Ceramic Society to celebrate its first 100 years.
The exhibition kicks off 12 months of lectures, tributes and exhibitions around the country.
Artists from around the country sent in entries last November. A jury of three professors from universities around the country chose the entries that appear in the show.
Jonathan Chiarella, Lawrence junior, said the pieces in the show varied greatly.
"There's anything from formal sculpture to gestural to abstracts," he said.
Gale Carter, the design department's office specialist, created a green teapot, simply titled Teapot, which won a place in the show.
"It's nice to show in the gallery in the department I work in," Carter said. "I don't think a lot of people know I do this. I don't submit work very often."
Ceramics From the Collection is in the North Balcony Gallery of the art museum and runs until Feb. 23.
A Centennial Celebration is at the gallery, Room 301 in the Art and Design Building, room 301.
It runs until Feb. 7.
Chinese Students & Scholars Friendship Association and
Hong Kong & Macau Students Association invite you to attend an evening of traditional Chinese performances in celebration of Chinese New Year, 1997. Live on stage: Acrobats, Chinese Traditional Lion Dance Beijing Opera, Martial Arts, Folk Songs ... Come and enjoy the special night with us.
Place: Lied Center at The University of Kansas
Place: Lied Center at The University of Kansas
Time: Saturday, Feb. 1, 1997 - 8:00pm
Ticket: $6 available at Lied center box office,
S.U.A. box office also at Murphy Hall box office
Tickets can be redeemed as 20% coupon at Magax wok. Baby sitting service is provided on the
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