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Friday, January 19, 1996
KU students can help children
Darcy Coles / KANSAN
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Lorraine Claassen, co-director for the Community Outreach Center and Amy Turnbull, project coordinator for the center, plan events for Children's Issues Awareness Week.
Most students know that there are needy children in every community, but some may not know how to help.
In an effort to get students involved in volunteer programs that assist needy children, the Center for Community Outreach is sponsoring Children's Issues Awareness Week Jan. 22-26.
The week will feature several events, including lectures and volunteer opportunities.
"Our entire nation is dependent on the health, education and welfare of children," said Amy Turnbull, project coordinator for the center. "All of us should have a vested interest in children's issues."
Jim Caccamo, a children's advocate at the Partnership for Children in Kansas City, will deliver a speech entitled "Stories from a Children's Advocate" at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
"He will provide a perspective from someone who works as an advocate for children," said Lorraine Claassen, co-director of the center.
Caccamo will discuss many different problems that children face, such as poverty, child abuse, violence and the unavailability of immunizations, she said.
A second lecture, entitled "Children's Poverty & Hunger Issues," will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Pine Room in the Union.
Students will have an opportunity to work with children at the Children's Educational Fun Fest, a volunteer project with the Boys and Girls Club. The Fun Fest will begin at 4 p.m. Friday. Informational tables will be set up in the Union lobby throughout next week. Students interested in volunteering can sign up at the Union tables.
students become aware of the issues, but once students become aware, it is also the center's responsibility to motivate them to action. Tumblr said.
Not only is it the center's responsibility to help
"When students have a volunteering experience with children, then they're going to feel like they're making a difference and they're going to make a commitment to volunteer with children again," Turnbull said.
Though the program co-coordinators are targeting students in the schools of education and social welfare, they stressed that they need volunteers of all majors and backgrounds.
It's going to take all types of people in various professions to solve the children's problems. Turnbull said. For more information, contact the center at 864-3710.
Festival takes two KU plays
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Two University Theatre productions, one an original script by a KU student, were selected to perform in a regional festival Jan. 23-28 in St. Louis.
The Adding Machine, directed by Ronald Willis, professor of theater and film, with technology designed by Mark Reaney, associate professor of theater and film, is one of the first productions in the world to combine live theater with virtual reality, and will be the only virtual reality project at the competition.
The play, originally staged in April 1995, focuses on accountant Mr. Zero, who ultimately loses his job to technology. After dying, Mr. Zero learns it wasn't technology's fault but his own lack of imagination and inability to adapt to change, Reaney said.
"The Adding Machine:" A Virtual Reality Project and The Devil's Game, a short play by Bo Price, Wichita junior, will compete in Region V (of eight) of the Kennedy Center-American College Theatre Festival. Out of the eight regions, six to eight productions will then be chosen to compete in the national festival, also held by the Kennedy Center.
The uniqueness of the project puts it in the category of experimental theater, which may hinder rather than help the project's chances, Reaney said.
If selected to compete at the national competition, The Devil's Game will be the first original script by a KU student to advance since Conspersonas, by Paul Lim, associate professor of English, in 1976.
"Typically judges like original scripts, which we don't have," Reaney said. "This project is too new of an idea to have any precedent in the competition, so it's hard to say we're going to do."
The Devil's Game marks the third consecutive year an original script by the English Alternative Theatre has advanced to the regional competition.
The original play, which was written for a playwriting class taught by LIM, is a comedy featuring two foul-mouthed, gangster-film quoting tough guys punishing a third man for an unnamed infraction.
"It's a dark comedy about the indoctrination into an organization." Lim said.
The Devil's Game will perform a final dress rehearsal at 8 p.m. on Monday in 3139 Wescoe. The dress rehearsal is free.
Singer to grace Lied Center stage
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
This evening, lyric soprano Kathleen Battle will add Lawrence to her repertoire of cities in which she has performed.
Appearing at the Lied Center as part of the University of Kansas's Concert Series, Battle will bring her blend of traditional arias, songs sung within the storyline of an opera, and spirituals to a sold-out crowd at 9 p.m.
With her reputation preceding her from performances with luminaries such as the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, tickets have been hard to come by. Karen Christilles, director of public relations for the Lied Center, said those still interested in attending should contact the Lied Center since season ticket holders often will turn in tickets they can't use for resale.
"It's no surprise to us she sold so well," Christilles said.
The success of Battle has had a major impact on students aspiring for a career in singing, said John Stephens, professor of music of dance.
"I think it's good for American students to see an American singer achieve that level of excellence and notoriety," he said.
"In her category of colatura soprano, she's one of the top singers in roles that require rapid singing," said Wendy Zaro-Fisher, associate professor of music and dance. Colatura soprans must have the ability to sing very
rapidly and very high, Zaro-Fisher said.
Battle, a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, studied at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory. Battle has received five Grammy awards and an Emmy in 1991 for her appearance in the Metropolitan Opera's season opener, shown on PBS.
Local fans of her work are looking forward to tonight's performance.
"Unquestionably, she is one of the most important living artists in our time," said Jacqueline Davis, executive director of the Lied Center.
Davis, who saw Battle at Carnegie Hall in 1995, said she hoped that Battle could repeat the response she received from the audience during that performance.
"It's the place to be," Davis said. For ticket availability, call the Lied Center box office at 864- ARTS
Emotional intelligence is key to success
Dealing with frustration motivation and moodiness are important part of EQ
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
Good grades, involvement in a couple of organizations, a few civic duties, preferably some experience and a nice interview suit.
For a long time,studer where the factors that would be the key to success.
But a few months ago, yet another factor was added.
Emotional intelligence.
faster than others.
He said that it is not the children who can learn the multiplication tables fastest that will succeed in life.
Shannon Ikerd, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said she had heard about emotional intelligence.
"I don't think one is better than the other," she said, comparing emotional intelligence with traditional intelligence. "You've got to have a mix of both."
Ikerd said grades could reflect the emotional intelligence, because they included how students deal with stress.
"Students who crash, burn or die the first time they have four assignments due at the
"Students who crash, burn or die the first time they have four assignments due at the same time don't do well."
Shannon Ikerd Kansas City, Kan., senior
Emotional intelligence is the ability to withstand frustration, motivate oneself, control impulse, delay gratification, and to regulate one's moods, Goleman writes.
And data from research suggests that it is more important then IQ. He claims that emotionally intelligent people get promoted
same time don't do well," she said
To develop her emotional intelligence, Ikerd tries to stay on top of things.
"I try to get a framework of time," she said. "I'm real big on calendars."
By writing down all of her assignments, she said, she knows ahead of time if she has several assignments due at once and can do a couple ahead of time.
Jana Rittenhouse, Temple, Texas, senior, said she thought the theory of emotional intelligence had some valid points.
"It's a useful tool when you get into dealing with your co-workers or your
bosses," she said. "But I wouldn't change my life according to it."
However, several KU students said they had never heard of the term emotional intelligence.
James Wear, Shawnee freshman, is one of them.
"I've never really heard of it," he said. "But it probably is more important than IQ."
Test Yourself
Unlike IQ, emotional intelligence cannot be tested easily. It is too multifaceted to be expressed by simple tests. But some aspects of it, such as optimism, can be quantified. The following test, published in Time magazine on Oct. 2, 1995, is part of a test used to screen applicants for insurance salesperson positions. The applicants were asked to imagine different situations and choose their hypothetical reactions from two options.
You forget your boyfriend's or girlfriend's birthday.
A. I am not good at remembering birthdays.
B. I was preoccupied with other things.
- You owe the library $10 for an overdue book.
- A. When I'm really involved in what I'm reading, I often forget when it's due.
BI was so involved in writing the report, I forgot to return the book.
You are penalized for returning your income-tax forms late.
A. I always put off doing my taxes.
B. I was lazy about getting my taxes done this year.
You've been feeling run-down.
A. I never get a chance to relax.
B. I was exceptionally busy this week.
A friend says something that hurts your feelings.
A. She always blurs things out without thinking of others.
B. My friend was in a bad mood and took it out on me.
You fall down in a great deal while skiing.
8. The trails were icy.
You gain weight over the holidays, and you can't lose it.
A. Diets don't work in the long run.
B. The diet I tried didn't work.
People who answer with more B's than A's are more optimistic, according to the test, which was developed by psychologist Martin Seligman. The B-answers describe the reasons for why something goes bad as temporary. Therefore, optimists view the problems as something they can overcome.
Pessimists, who generally answer with more A's than B's, view their problems as permanent.
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