UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 8, 1993
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Smithsonian exhibit comes to KU
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
Five hundred years after Europeans set foot on uncharted lands, an exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute will come to KU's Museum of Natural History to examine the consequences of their arrival.
"This exhibit might prove to be the most popular exhibit in the Museum's history," said Kathryn Morton, program assistant for the Museum of Natural History.
The traveling exhibit will open Monday on the fifth floor of the Museum where it will remain until Dec. 26.
Morton said the exhibit, "Seeds of Change," was one of the Smithsonian's most popular exhibits touring the nation.
Morton said the exhibit focused on the five major exchanges made between European cultures and those of America and Africa: corn,
potatoes, sugar, the horse and disease.
"The exhibit evokes thoughts about our lives and the origination of our cultural heritage," she said. "It's an exhibit that works perfectly for the KU academic community."
Morton said the Museum's exhibit selection committee worked to get the exhibit as long ago as last year. She said the committee judged different traveling exhibits on their prestige, timeliness, size and the committee's budget.
"We had to take the dimensions of the Museum into consideration when we scheduled for the exhibit," Morton said.
Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits, said the exhibit was a smaller version of the original exhibit, which is much larger and costs $25,000 to $30,000 to schedule. He said this exhibit was funded by a
small grant through the University.
"It's a very interesting exhibit that tells not only what's happened in America in the past 500 years but what happened in Europe and the rest of the world too," Swearingen said.
"A lot of the situations are sad stories about threatened cultures," he said.
He said that the exhibit showed situations and hardships that different cultures had to endure such as the Irish potato famine and the spread of smallpox. The exhibit also demonstrates the impact that the introduction of the horse had on America.
The exhibit would be good for KU students to see, said Melanie Johnson, Lawrence junior. It tells a chronological story that takes you through 500 years of history, she said.
"It makes you realize a lot about why our culture evolved the way it did," Johnson said.
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
Clinton commits more troops, sets pullout deadline in Somalia
President Clinton told divided lawmakers yesterday that he is sending 1,700 fresh ground troops to Somalia — backed up by 3,600 Marines and sailors offshore — then plans to withdraw all U.S. forces by March 31.
But his session with congressional leaders turned contentious as many members demanded a quick pullout.
Competing views of various lawmakers voiced at yesterday's session did not alter Clinton's plans for the new troops nor the withdrawal timetable, a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Members of Congress briefed by Clinton at a White House session also said that the president would name Robert Oakley, who was President Bush's envoy to Somalia, to go to the region to try to oversee a political settlement to the strife.
Clinton's plan to send in 1,700 more ground troops is in addition to the 650 fresh troops he ordered to the region earlier in the week after Sunday's bloodshed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
The number of U.S. troops now in Somalia once numbered 28,000 but is currently down to 4,700. The reinforcements planned by Clinton, together with the 3,600-member
Marine amphibious group to be stationed offshore, would bring the total U.S. force in the region to over 10,000.
Clinton, trying to quiet congressional calls for immediate withdrawal, declared on Tuesday: "We are anxious to conclude our role there honorably, but we do not want to see a reversion to the absolute chaos and the terrible misery which existed before."
Novelist Morrison wins Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
American novelist and essayist Toni Morrison, cited for writing prose "with the luster of poetry," won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature today for her lyrical accounts of the African-American experience.
She is the first African American to win the prize and only the eighth woman to win since it first was awarded in 1901.
the eighth woman to win since it first was awarded in 1801. The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Morrison "who, in novels, characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."
She won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a year after publishing "Beloved," in which she widened her themes of the black world in life and legend, first described in the 1978 "Song of Solomon."
Morrison, who was keeping to her teaching schedule today at Princeton University, said she found out about the prize this morning from a university colleague who called her after seeing a television report.
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