University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 14, 1988
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KU alumnus receives OZZI award
Johnson says KU experience still influences his career
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
A 1978 KU graduate last night received the 1988 Grand OZZI award for his work in national and international film-making.
Stephen Johnson, who directed the award-winning Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" video, the first season of "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and a video to illustrate the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, accepted the award as part of the 1988 Kansas Film Institute Film and Video Festival.
About 100 people attended the ceremony in Downs Auditorium at Dvche Hall.
Johnson said that his experiences in Kansas helped him with his career.
"I've come to appreciate the background I was given both in Kansas and back here at KU," he said.
Johnson, who was a radio-TVfilm major, recalled that his last experience at the University of Kansas was probably the one that contributed the most to his recent success.
"I had about $200 in parking tickets that were unpaid." he said.
tickets that were unpaid, "ne said. Johnson said he talked officials into letting him pay for half of them, which was all he could afford, and they released his transcript, allowing him to go to graduate school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Before presenting Johnson with the Grand OZZI, Roger Holden, president of the Kansas Film Institute, showed examples of Johns work and read a congratulatory program from Wee Wee Herman.
Then, Holden said, there was another surprise. The lights went down, and a short film announced the award.
Johnson was relieved.
Johnson was relieved.
"I was terrified that you had gotten one of my student films," he said.
Holden also presented the Life Achievement OZZI to two Lawrence filmmakers, Herk Harvey and John Clifford. Together, they directed a 1982 film that has become a cult classic.
While accepting his award, Clifford said, "In Steven Johnson, you met someone in the avant garde of a group of very young boys in the back of the caboose."
Holden presented 11 OZIZs to student filmmakers in the areas of narrative videos, long nonfiction, short nonfiction, long promotions, short promotions and public service announcements, commercial video films, short narrative films, short narrative films and music videos.
University of Kansas graduate Stephen R. Johnson discusses his directing career before receiving the "Grand Ozzi" award. Johnson was honored by the Kansas Film Institute last night for his work in film and video.
Portrayals sexist, feminist says
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
Although Sara Paretsky, novelist and feminist, joked at a dare during her speech on women's roles in detective stories, the seriousness of the journey for equal rights showed through.
"Women are often portrayed as species of monsters wanting to strip men of their rights," she said.
Paretsky, author of five mystery novels and MS magazine's 1987 woman of the year, spoke Friday afternoon in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The speech, "From Angel to Witch: The Moral Decline of American Women in 20th-Century Detective Fiction," was sponsored by the department of women's studies.
A KU student in the 1960s, Parestyk dedicated the speech to the memory of Elizabeth M. Watkins.
Paretsky said that women characters in detective fiction almost always were mutilated and
destroyed or portrayed as destroyers.
"The women are not central to the action," she said.
Paretsky spoke of the history of inequality for women back to the time of women's suffrage in the 1920s.
"It was thought that chivalry would end if women were given the right to vote," she said.
And she gave some modern examples
In 1984, Pareksey said, a division of the Baptist Church declared that women could not serve as clerics.
"They have declared women as the servants of men," she said.
A Lawrence native and KU graduate, Paretsky served on KU's Commission on the Status of Women in the 1960s.
She recently organized Sisters in Crime, a women's caucus within the Mystery Writers of America. The caucus wants to make readers
aware of the male bias in mystery writing
In a January 1988 interview in MS, Paretsky said that about 40 percent of the mysteries published were produced by women but weren't as distinguished as men's works in the genre.
Angel Kwolek-Folland, lecturer in women's
health, introduced Parishes, she had
been introduced to a new form of
motion.
"She's addressed the troubling issues of our time: toxic waste, the violence against women," Follhardt said.
Paretsky called on the movie "Fatal Attraction" to illustrate today's violence against women.
In the movie, actress Glenn Close has an affair with the male character, Michael Douglas, who is married. The movie depicts a raged woman who stalks her ex-lover. Douglas finally kills Close, Paretsky said, and is portrayed as the movie's hero. Close is portrayed as the "bad guy."
"It is a sobering thought for feminists.' Parettsky said of such a depiction of women.
Zoologist fights for Agnes' descendants, gives suggestions for enhancing habitat
By Cindy Harger Kansan staff writer
Agnes the Frog may have lost the race for Douglas County commissioner two years ago, but she won't lose a habitat that she can thrive in if Joe Collins gets his way.
Collins, zoologist at the KU Museum of Natural History, recently sent a letter on ways to enhance the crawfish frog habitat to reviewers of the prophecy southwest Lawrence and nearby wildlife and county agencies.
"I'm just making sure the kind of habitat that is created would be the kind that is used by the crawfish frog and not a waste of the city's money." Collins said.
Collins has been concerned about
Agnes ran for office to protest development of the proposed trafficway that would be next to the Baker Wetlands, an area designated as critical habitat for the threatened frog species.
the brothers and sisters of Agnes the Frog, a fictitious northern crawfish frog who gained national attention when she ran for the commission.
"Wet, open prairies with groundwater close to the surface that are annually flooded, represents the type of soil most commonly used for frogs for breeding." Collins said.
Collins' letter described the ideal crawfish frog habitat.
"Ultimately, the water must dry up by mid-July so no fish are able to live in the water," he said.
He said that most importantly, the frogs would not breed in permanent ponds.
Frank Hempen, director of Douglas County Public Works, said that Collins' suggestions would aid engineers as they followed through with whatever mitigation procedures were accepted.
The county, in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Transportation, is drafting an environmental impact statement on the trafficway. Hempen said the statement was close
"It is good to have important information, such as this, in advance so we don't have to go back and fix things later." Hempen said.
Bob Wood, terrestrial ecologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said some proposals existed that would help make up for frog habitat lost from the trafficway's construction.
to being ready to go through the final approval process, which would be complete in 60 to 90 days.
Wood said the city and the trafficway developers could acquire new land near the Baker Wetlands and develop it into a wetland area. The lake provides an existing wetlands, making it easier for the crawfish frog to survive.
The wildlife department issues the final construction permit for the traffiway because of the critical habitat designation.
'Last Temptation hits in Lawrence
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
Theater sees peaceful protests
Controversy over director Martin Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ" has been renewed in Lawrence with the movie's Friday opening at Liberty Hall.
Protesters have gathered in front of the movie theater for every showing, said Tim Griffith, manager of Liberty Hall. 642 Massachusetts St. protestors has grown since Friday, from four people to about 20 yesterday.
"The Last Temptation of Christ," based on Nikos Kanzakatz's novel about Christ's life, evoked controversy from fundamentalist Christians because it portrayed Christ being tempted by lust.
Griffith said the theater was neutral about the film, and the protesters were welcome as long as they weren't violent.
Griffith said the movie theater decided to show the movie because Liberty Hall traditionally chose movies that other剧院 didn't run it. The movie was averaging about 100 people a showing. The movie will run until Dec. 3.
"We don't particularly endorse any of the movie's thoughts," Griffith said. "People have the right to see
what they want to see. (The protesters) are welcome to express their opinions as long as they don't bodily stop anyone from getting in."
Two protesters, John Wintrey, assistant professor of Army ROTC, and his wife, Marietta, stayed for all of Sunday afternoon's showing and said they would protest throughout the movie's run.
"We're here for a peaceful protest," Marietta Wintrey said. "I don't want to stop anyone from seeing it. Everyone has a right to see it."
"I think if that's what they believe, that's fine." Deeds said.
Kent Deeds, Lawrence senior who saw the movie yesterday, said the protesters didn't hinder his curiosity to see the movie.
Deeds said he enjoyed the movie although he said it was too long, running almost three hours. Annette Marks, Topeka resident, disagreed with Deeds about the quality of the movie.
"I thought it was a dreadful movie, in every sense," she said.
But Marks said she didn't see the movie for its cinematic quality.
"I only came to express my freedom of speech," she said. "If it hadn't been for the controversy, I wouldn't have come."
Courts may order garnishing of rent after tenants' suits
Kansan staff writer
By Jeremy Kohn
Tenants can receive court-ordered damages from their landlords more quickly by garnishing other tenants' rent payments, a consumer affairs specialist said last week.
Camille Dalager, director of the Consumer Affairs Association, said such a situation occurred in June when a student won a $333 judgment against the Moseley Management Group, which manages Boardwalk Apartments, 524 Frontier Road.
Todd Lower, former Boardwalk resident and Topeka sophomore, said he filed a suit against Moseley in June because it hadn't returned his security deposit within the required 30 days after Lower vacated his apartment at the end of hisApril.
Lower requested through the court that another Boardwalk tenant send rent payments directly to the court until the damages were paid. The rent would be counted as money owed to Lower by Moseley.
Dalager said that method of garnishment, which is payment by the defendant to the plaintiff, had been used once before several years ago in Lawrence. She said Moseley paid the money to avoid embarrassment with the garnished tenant.
"It it the garnishm order) doesn't give you a feeling of confidence in the business person," Dalager said.
She said that tenants might doubt their landlord's honesty or business methods if they discover that former tenants had taken
Garnishing another tenant's rent is an effective way to get court-ordered money, she said, because monthly rents are a constant source of income for apartment owners or managers.
Sheryl Sampson, court clerk,
said that winning a small claims
case was't difficult but that get-
ting money from the defendant
was.
"If they don't have any assets, it's hard to get your money." Sampson said.
Barbara Berry, vice president of Moseley, said the request for garnishment had nothing to do with the company's decision to pay Lower.
"It may encourage other people, but it didn't encourage us," Berry said last week.
She said that the garnished tenant had contacted Boardwalk's management in October about the impairment orders from the court.
According to court records,
garnishment orders were dropped.
Oct. 18, and the court received
Jack's payment to Lower
Oct. 31.
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"If you can successfully garnish somebody, that is a quicker access than other options," she said.
But Dalager said many plaintiffs never received their money because some people disregarded the law and didn't return the asset.
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