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Sexual assault awareness advocate says rape culture a problem worldwide
MANHATTAN -- April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but Kansas State Uni-versity's Donna Potts thinks every month should focus on the problem -- especially on college campuses throughout the world.
Potts, professor of English, served on the subcommittee of the American Associa-tion of University Professors that drafted a statement on sexual assault. The associa-tion's report, adopted in 2012, details the widespread problem of sexual assault on campuses, and includes proposed policies to curb instances of sexual assault and provide greater support to victims of as-sault. The report also explains current law and proposes an increased faculty role in ending campus sexual assault.
According to the report, up to 25 percent of females and 4 percent of males on U.S. college campuses are victims of sexual assault. Getting society to recognize the seriousness of the problem and to stop blaming the victim are among the reasons Potts is a strong advocate for sexual as-sault awareness.
"It's time to end the culture of rape," she said. "All too often we load potential vic-tims with the entire burden for preventing this crime -- which means that they blame themselves when they're raped, whereas their rapists are never made to feel any re-sponsibility for their actions. As a society, we need to teach men to respect women, and we need to work to reduce the level of inequity between males and females, so females who are victims of rape feel that they have a voice."
When it comes to sexual assault on campus, Potts said people in positions of power are more likely to be perpetrators and that relatively powerless people are the easier targets.
"We saw recently at Penn State how easy it is for people in positions of power, such as coaches, to target victims, commit serial rape and avoid detection for years," she said.
But Potts thinks the national reaction to the rapes at Penn State was more extreme
because of the victims' sex.
"For one thing, our society has normalized rapes of postpubescent females, though we have not done so for boys," she said. "If society would muster the same level of horror about a crime directed overwhelm-ingly at college-age girls, the rape rate would certainly drop. But many people are too busy blaming the victims to make the issue a high priority."
Another recent high-profile rape case -- in Steubenville, Ohio, where two high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl -- also raises an ugly aspect of the rape culture, Potts said.
"In the Steubenville case, it was deplor-able that so many bystanders simply took pictures on their cellphones and posted them on YouTube or Facebook," she said. "Bystanders have opportunities to change the outcomes for rape victims."
The culture of rape is not just limited to U.S. college campuses. Potts recently re-turned from presenting a lecture series on her specialty, Irish literature, at Osmania University and the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. While there, she offered to give a lecture about sexual violence in response to the December 2012 gang rape in New Delhi that made headlines across the world.
After talking with Indian students, includ-ing some who are writing dissertations on rape and rape narratives, Potts found vic-tim blaming was just as common in India as in the U.S. She said she was told it can take years for sexual assault cases to go to trial in India, and that because the country lacks resources to support rape victims, like rape crisis centers, there is a deeper sense of hopelessness about the outcome of pressing charges.
"Many victims in India -- I was given estimates of 14 to 16 percent -- respond by committing suicide," Potts said. "Victims are led to believe that their defilements have shamed their families, and because women are regarded as more inferior in India than they are in the U.S., the shame they presumably bring to their families is more likely to outweigh the victims' own sense of personal indignation, rage and
suffering."
Taking every sexual assault report seri-ously is an important first step, whether in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world, Potts said.
"If someone tells you she or he has been raped, do not dismiss, discount or trivial-ize his or her words," she said. "Rape is the only serious crime in which victims' stories are routinely dismissed. For all crimes, there is a tiny percentage of false reports, but it's no higher for rape than anything else. Discounting a rape victim's story is, to the victim, like being raped all over again."
Potts said she advised the students in India to promote the American Associa-tion of University Professors' statement on sexual assault, available at http://www.aaup.org/news/statement-sexual-assault.
"The AAUP defends academic freedom, and I strongly feel that academic freedom is an impossible dream if we do not heed the large percentage of students who are victims of rape," she said. "If they're silenced when they attempt to report rape, they will never really feel they have a voice in the classroom."
Potts knows firsthand the power of giving sexual assault victims a voice firsthand.
"I recall a sullen, silent student in my class who, when we started discussing J.M. Coe-tzee's novel, 'Disgrace,' which deals with the subject of rape, began talking about her own assault," Potts said. "She was suddenly transformed into an enthusiastic student who was eager to participate in class. And when the course was over, she gave me a beautiful sketch of a lion she'd made. It seemed to be her way of showing her gratitude for finally feeling empowered to talk about what happened to her."
Potts serves as chair of the Assembly of State Conferences and has served two terms on the National Council of the American Association of University Profes-sors. She also has written about sexual assault awareness for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
K-STATE STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS HOST PANCAKE FEED
The KSU Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) and American Society of Agricultural Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers will be hosting a Pan-cake and Sausage Feed at the K-State Open House Saturday, April 20, 2013.
Fluffy pancakes and savory sausage will be served from 7 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. in Seaton 142 (follow the signs on campus).Prices are $5/adult, $4/student, $2/child for all you can eat. Tickets can be
Members of the Flint Hills Renewable Energy & Efficiency Cooperative Invite you
to a Community Sun Raiser This Saturday, Apr 6th, at At Jim & Bonnie Sherow’s House (well, the garage around back actually), Daughter’s House Bed & Breakfast, 617 Colorado Street, Manhattan, KS 66502 Modeled after a “barn-raising” following the tradition of neighbor helping neigh-bor, Bill & Tamara Dorsett have invited a group of volunteers to help install a solar electric (PV) system on their home..
Several other volunteers will be hosting their own Sun Raiser and the Dorsett’s will be “Paying the favor forward” to other families who want to do the same. Others are looking to learn the skills so they can install it themselves or are volunteering simply to help out. We’ll be putting up a 3,000 watt solar electric system with 15 solar modules and microinverters on the south-facing garage roof next to the alley.
Jim and I put the rails up last week and on this day, we will start with an explanation of what we’ll be doing at 8:30 and arrange for teams to install first the bolts, clips, inverters, cabling and system grounding, followed by the 245 watt Solar modules. It is a steep roof, so everyone up there will have to be wearing a safety harness. If you have one of your own, please bring it.
Bring a mug and enjoy coffee and rolls. We share the concern that our community needs to reduce our use of fossil fuels and start preparing for a lower energy world. Our goal is to make renewable energy and efficiency, affordable and available to as many people as possible in our region of the Flint Hills.
Free Coffee and Doughnuts.
Anyone curious is welcome for as long as you like.
And if you’d like to be included on future events, to be on our email list: [email protected]
purchased from members of either club in advance or at the door.
The monies raised will benefit both clubs as they travel to conferences and competi-tions across the country.
Questions may be directed to Casey Droddy at 785-418-2500 or [email protected] or Dr. Lauri Baker at 785-532-1140 or [email protected].
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SPRING DANCE 2013 at MCCAINthe talents of the KSU School of music, Theatreand Dance looking their best!From Keegan D. Hudspeth
photos by terry szel
I know, I know. It’s spring, you’d rather be out on a Friday or Saturday night, shaking your thing to the latest dubstep wubs. Sadly, I have something to tell you about that: You can do it next week, and the week after if you so choose. In the meantime, this weekend only the KSU School of Music, Theatre, and Dance will feature the KSU Spring Dance 2013. Sure, sure, you say, and why should I go?
Firstly, it’s a showcase highlight-ing the talented performers within the KSU Dance department, but also brings the spot light in on the works of many talented musicians, choreographers, lighting designers, and costume designers between the Music and Theatre depart-ments. These people have chops ladies and gentlemen, these people are future movers and shakers in their particular id-
ioms. Whether you see them on stage or not, those who pro-vide material for the Spring Dance work arduously to create a beauti-ful and highly entertaining time. So drop your wubs and gather round for a peek into what these virtuosos have to offer.
Starting my preview I will apolo-gize to everyone who worked so hard on the Diamonds performance at the beginning of Act 1. I am a timely person, but I am also easily discouraged. When arriving at McCain auditorium I sadly found all of the main front doors, which I am used to using, locked. So I had to
putter around for a bit and find a back way into the Auditorium in order to catch the show, which I caught a few minutes into...
Emoticon Choir II and the Sorry Madrigal When I began attending col-lege, years ago in Kansas City, there was a “cheer leading” group at my school called Rah Booty. A performance art/cheerleading team that would run around the first friday art galleries in downtown
“The harlequin-esque costuming highlighted the purposeful absurdity of the dancer’s
behavior creating an altogether hilarious performance.”
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Kansas City in diapers and pink leotards. The dancers featured in this piece took me back to that singular point in my life when I was 18 or so. The entire group was led by a young lady, a master of ceremonies sort with a lovely stage magician’s sort of out-fit accented with matching tuxedo jacket. She cavorts and poses about the group, ordering them around while gesticulating grandly in all directions.
The “Sorry Madrigal” portion of the piece was a near ridiculous sing-song chant with movements organized within
three groups and tonal variations on how everyone said the word sorry. Sometimes
catty, sometimes pathetic, sometimes whatever, sometimes childish. The chorus of dancers followed their MC like a clutch of ducklings all confused and bewildered. The harle-quin-esque costuming highlighted the purposeful absurdity of the dancer’s behavior creating an al-together hilarious perfor-mance.
Handles Two women appeared on stage with three folding chairs. They moved in sets of poses. Powerful stance, balance on one leg and extending in a complex al-most yoga like pose. Both young women held poise, expressing power and strength as well as femi-ninity through their move-ment. I couldn’t help but infer a narrative to their dance. To me it seemed they were searching across the stage, as if they were somehow philosophic, and exploring or tampering with the meaning of why they were there.
Swing This (2006) The beginning music, with scat lyrics befitting a Bill Cosby Jello commercial, broke quickly into a great rendition of “It Don’t Mean a Thing, If It Ain’t Got That Swing”. The dance was almost goofy, capturing the feel of a large cast dance number in a Gene Kelly musical. The dance begins with two of the young men dancers hop-ping and skipping about, completely surrounded by a metric ton of young women in lovely spring sundresses. Throughout the men are swallowed and supplanted as the four color grouped troupes of women take over the dance. The spring theme was captured well in the lovely tints of pink, purple, yellow and green, spinning around the stage in so many flowing skirts as if they were flower heads float-ing over the stage. The whole perfor-mance was energetic and vibrant fun, every single dancer in the piece showed great skill and coordination with one
another.
Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope is the climax of the first act and is it ever a treat for
the eyes and ears. First up is the Pas de Quatre performance, a ballet piece that features some excellent costuming and some of the better ballet choreography I’ve seen come out of McCain. The danc-ers play off each other, circling the stage, flocking to and fro, and eventually reform back into their original posing. It took a special pleasure in this last moment for the young women in Pas de Quatre, because as the performers of Isadora entered, they looked askance, if not scan-dalized for a brief instant all as one. As if to say, “Hey wait a minute...” Isadora took on a Grecian theme, or at least that is what I chose to discern from the cos-tuming. There was a classic Greek chorus look to the young women as they filed between the curtains back stage crossing in and out. They eventually made way for Salome, a dance of the seven veils. This was something I’ve only seen in movies, so it was a real treat to actually see it in person. Nothing quite surprises me more about dance that the quality of becom-ing both sensual and intensely beautiful all at the same time. The veils move into Orchesis, which sports even larger veils and fabrics, even integrating the veils that Salome left on stage. Ain’t Misbehavin’ follows, a swanky number with ladies in flapper style dresses and the men on stage with tophats and tuxes. This piece involved a lot of kicking and sidelong looks that bespoke of the naughty nature of the roar-ing twenties. Indeed the dances seemed
“it seemed they were searching across the stage, as if they were somehow philosophic”
truly historic in a sense as the next piece was taken from West Side Story, Cool. You know, the one with all the snap-ping that we’ve all at least seen in a Gap commercial (heaven forgive you if that’s all). A marimba is brought on stage next, played by Bryce Craig as the program tells me. This piece, Can You Think? was out of the park. I never knew that it was specifically the marimba that captured tones that I always assumed were synth or electronic tones, but all the same it is very beautiful. The dancers who accompanied swayed and fluttered to the echoes and bubbles of sound cascading through the auditorium.
Frankly, I don’t want to spoil the finale of Act one for you. It is both stunning and incredibly humorous. If you take a friend or significant other along who is, shall we say less than cultured, elbow them in the ribs roughly and wake them up for this moment. I won’t spoil the rest, you’ll just need to see it for yourself, suffice to say there will be some traditional African music and dance, as well as an amazing tap dance piece. Sup-port the arts ladies and gentlemen, it’s all we’ll have left to show for when the aliens come down and replace all our ipads and cellphones with mind control brain worms.
Spring Dance 2013KSU Department of Music, Theatre, and dance presents
7:30 pmapril 5-6 2013
McCain AuditoriumTickets available at the McCain box office
(785) 532-6428
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And the last shall be firstA Manhattan memory from Frank Siegle
My intent to do columns called “Manhat-tan Memories” were, in my mind, a way to share with people more or less new to Manhattan, what the city was like and events that shaped it over the years from 1940, when I was born, to the fairly recent. They started off that way, but they seem not to stop there, but slide back further. In short, in a very, very small way I’m doing what the late Lowell Jack did in chroni-cling the history of the area. In a very personal way I’m choosing what interests me and, sometimes, giving my own takes on it. Others are digging more deeply and thoroughly. More about that later, prob-ably.
But to the story.
The building at the SW corner of 4th and Pierre is slated for demolition soon. For a number of years it’s been a business of one sort or another. It was erected in 1938 as Manhattan’s fourth movie theater, the Carlton.
In September 1st., when it opened, it was called state of the art. The other three theaters were in buildings much older. This was a reinforced concrete building in a striped down and stark art deco style. It seems rather unique. I’ve googled others and it certainly is among the plainest. It was squat with a rounded front on the cor-ner and a tower with the word “Carlton” done vertically over the corner entrance,
but it did have a balcony.
There was much else afoot in 1938. The Aggieville theater, the Sosna, had been renovated and re-opened in March. Dur-ing the summer the Wareham was closed for renovations, so for part of the year, the town had two functioning theatres, the Sosna and the Dickenson, to be joined by the Carlton and, later in the year, the renewed Wareham. Once the renova-tions were completed on the Wareham, all three were essentially within around a block of the other. Gives you a sense of the nature of the town and countryside vis-à-vis the college. The bulk of business centered on downtown and the surrounding territory. Most of that flowed over the eastern viaduct or 24 coming down south on the east edge of the city or in from the east from St. George.
As always there was great to-do about a new business opening. The Mercury/Daily Nationalist began printing articles and no-tices throughout the week before the open-ing, including a synopsis of its opening film, a Bob Hope movie: ‘’Give Me a Sailor” with Martha Raye and that rising starlet, Betty Grable. During the week, an ad ap-peared that gave the upcoming movies to
be shown through Sept. 24th. In those days, movies did not have long runs. Two to three days was the norm.
The Carlton was the second theater owned by Glen Dickenson, a local businessman here, the other being, obviously, the Dicken-son. He had a chain of theaters that eventu-ally grew throughout the lower Plains, MO, AK, and the Southwest. This theater was named for his youngest son.
There were articles and
ads and a full-page of congratulations from Harry Wareham. There was a pictorial introduction to the staff and, of course, an article about the grand opening on Sep-tember 1, and the dignitaries that attended and the flower arrangements sent by other theater entrepreneurs.
I might note that the picture of the staff didn’t include pictures of Paul Griffin, the door boy and Ed Starnes, the jani-tor. Which brings up seating policy. The balcony was considered overflow. It was
also reserved for “Negroes,” in the polite parlance of that day. Not that whites couldn’t and didn’t go up there, at least when I was a kid. Many did. As I understand it, this wasn’t limited to the Carlton. Racism, we know, was not, and is not, a Southern disease. Anyway, the Carlton was
written up in a rather glow-ing article in “Box Office” magazine in 1939, praising its style, efficient layout and acoustics.
So it joined Manhattan’s stable of movie houses and remained until May 25th, 1959, when it was writ-ten in an ad that it would close for the summer. But it never reopened. It quietly became the Co-ed on March 7 1952, and remained so until its end. It wasn’t the first to close. The State was the first, closing, it said, for the Holiday season on Dec. 15, 1957. It never reopened, either. It’s a story unto itself, as are the other early theaters.
Thus, Manhattan was left with two movie houses for years, except the Skyview and, briefly, the Edge-wood for outdoor summer Drive-in viewing. Why did
this happen? To paraphrase the Buggles: “TV killed the one screener house.” Movie audiences dwindled to sit in front of shows at home – for free.
But the point of this piece is that the old building is being razed, a fate unlikely anytime soon for the other three. The Campus (first Miller, then Sosna) was in-corporated into Varney’s Books. The State building (originally the Marshall, then the Dickenson) is still in use and probably will continue, for I’m certain it’s on the historical register, as is the Wareham, the only one that still has entertainment. Just not Hollywood movies. So the last of the four main movie theaters created before WWII, will be the first to pass not only into the past and into memory but also in total physical reality.
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a few of my favorite thingsthe columbian brings another classic musicalto wamego and you!From Keegan D. Hudspeth
Time and again it seems that I find my-self into promoting musicals. A lesser man would complain, loudly, of the torture he has received at the hands of Meredith Willson and Frank Loesser. Oddly enough, I still love them. There’s a rush, a thrill, a high, perhaps even a spiri-tual connection that follows. Something to do with that bizarre tingly sensation that travels up your spine and around your shoulders when you hear “Maria” sung for the tril-lionth time. There’s something pleasant and comforting in this sort of entertainment, and in these tumultuous times, everyone needs comfort. I assume we’re all familiar with Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s clas-sic musical “The Sound of Music”, made famous worldwide by the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It’s thrilling to note, whether you’ve heard it
or not, that “The Sound of Music” relates a sentimental telling of an otherwise true story. There really was a Maria, though her maiden name was Kutschera instead of Rainer, and a Captain Von Trapp, and seven children initially, though she and the captain had three more. Regardless, it’s the fictional story we care about, as we are after all seeking entertainment. Firstly, I would like to commend Heath-er Branham-Green, whose years of direction experience lends a great deal of character to the already fantastic venue that is the Columbian Theatre. Heather has worked as a theatre artist for Jenny Wiley Theatre, The Mountain Arts Center, The Phoenix Theatre, Lexington Children’s Theatre and has headed up community theatre projects and classes at Eastern Kentucky University and Morehead University. I was thrilled to see how she used the entire auditorium as a set in certain
scenes without disrupting the audience. Specifically I refer to the opening scene in the abbey as the nuns are filing in. The lighting direction is excellent as the rest of the auditorium dims but the spotlights stay on the six paintings that line the theatre’s walls, giving the illusion of stained glass windows and the interior of a church navel. Many scenes use the two doors outside of the stage for transitions, and I was particularly im-
pressed with the use of a projection screen as a variable backdrop to switch between scenes quickly. I also need to give big props to the music director Steve Brenn. The difficulty of switch-ing between conducting the musicians in the pit and the vocalists on stage in a show with such a large cast is a feat in itself. I was par-ticularly impressed with the vocal talent in the show, Steve has really made the young actors and actresses in the pro-duction shine. Par-ticularly moments of group vocals were very strong in the show. The young actors and actresses portraying the Von Trapp children (Mary Payne, Cale Hupe, Lydia Spears, Nick Jones, Aubrey Hildebrand, Beth Land, and Piper Pad-dock) shine in songs like “Do Re Mi” and “The Lonely Goatherd”. I will make note of how the songs aren’t quite in the format of how they are presented in the film for what I assume is brevity’s sake. Don’t expect to hear “My Favorite Things” the customary ten times or so throughout the production. Of course it would be obtuse of me not to mention the talents of the leads, Stephanie Bowker (Maria Rainer) and Drew Horton (Captain Georg Von Trapp). Stephanie por-trays the awkwardly sweet Maria with both grace and sensitivity to the role giving us the plucky heroine with doubts that we expect. Her opening scene in the meadow where she gives us the title song is lovely, Heather’s di-rection shines again through the minimal set with an artful use in lighting that surrounds Stephanie as a halo of light. Drew Horton’s treatment of Captain Von Trapp is commend-able. We can see through the course of the show how his stern heart melts into a warm and lovable character through the beauty of
his children’s song. The rest of the cast is wonderful, with veterans from past Columbian shows shining through. Brad Voth captures the unctuous and snarky Max Detwieler to an art, and cer-tainly, even the nuns vocals are magnificent in the talents of Christy Collette and Natasha Gibbons. The Hype’s own Sarah Sullivan
and Matt Thornburrow are some of the faces you’ll see in minor roles, Matt seen early in the production as a vocal coach and later as a menacing nazi Herr Zeller. Sarah Sullivan provided the costumes for the show,with the assistance of Kara Holle, Molly Ledeboer, and Marny Debarde-leben. As I’m sure you’ll see the work speaks for itself. It was astounding to note how quickly the entire cast went through set and costume changes, which should go much to their credit.
Once again the Columbian Theatre has brought together an impressive cast and crew to bring a production of a classic musi-cal to life locally, right on your doorstep in Wamego. You have three sets of chances to go and see it throughout the month, so see it once or twice. This rendition of Roger and Hammerstein’s last classic work is nothing to sneeze at and certainly one you shouldn’t miss.
photos by sarah sullivan
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THIS WEEK IN MHK...
Open Oil Painting Studio MAC AnnexOpen to any and all levels of talent and enthusiasm for oil painting. Come and meet some new friends and practice your art!
6:30PM
friday 5
Thursday 4
Sunday Jazz Brunch Bluestem BistroLive jazz every Sunday morning dur-ing brunch.
11:00AM
Coffee Hour Manhattan Church Of ChristCoffee hour, and by “coffee,” we mean a smorgasbord of pastries, fruit, juice and coffee. Our Sunday School classes take turns hosting coffee hour and it’s a great op-portunity to meet new people and connect with old friends.
9:30AM
Meditation Practice, Tallgrass Zen Center (UFM, Solar Addition, 1221 Thurston) Questions? You can find us on Facebook or visit www.tallgrasszen.blogspot.com.
3:00PM
Dr. Goins Jazz Quartet della Voce KSU Jazz Prof. Guitarist Wayne Goins and the della Voce Jazz Quartet play every Sunday evening from 6:00 to 8:00.
6:00PM
Monday 8Love Your Library - Winter Reading for Adults (Manhattan Public Library)It’s the perfect time of year to cozy up with a good book. (See Saturday for full description)
9:00AM
Nearly Flightless w/ The Travel Guide(Aggie Central Station)
Local rockers Nearly Flightless with new album in hand will be gracing our stage with The Travel Guide from Wichita warming the stage for them! Not to miss!
$3 Cover. 21+ 10pm
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Friday Night Magic The Gathering (Game Hounds Video Games & Gifts 1620 Fort Riley Boulevard #111 Man)Game Hounds offers Booster Draft and Standard Play tournaments. Booster Draft is $13 and includes 3 packs of cards and 1 pack into a prize pool.
6:30PM
Pianist Scott Senn (The Veldt Lounge)Scott Senn has been a professional musician for over 30 years, special-izing in Jazz, Contemporary and pop Idioms.
7:00PM
Amy LaVere w/ The Kyle Sexton Band(Aggie Central Station)The Kyle Sexton Band brings blues rock featuring the stylings of Jimi and Stevie Ray Vaughn! Amy LaVere will finish you off with her Ameri-cana awesome! $3 Cover 10pm 21+
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Sunday 7Sunday Contemporary Worship Service (First United Methodist Church)Our contemporary service offers a relaxed atmosphere with praise band and inspiring opportunities for connecting with God and each other. Children of all ages are encouraged to attend and sing, clap, and dance in the aisles. Bags of things to do and stuffed animals are available as you enter.
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Love Your Library - Winter Reading for Adults (Manhattan Public Library)It’s the perfect time of year to cozy up with a good book. (See Saturday for full description)
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Pagan Coffee Bluestem BistroPagan? Pagan-curious? Pagan-friendly? Come join Manhattan’s longest running pan-pagan social group.
6:00PM
Hi-Energy Thursday w/ DJ Pizzle Bobby T’s Grill and BarManhattan’s King of the Old School, DJ Pizzle, mixing music videos from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today, with 10000+ Music Videos.
9:00PM
Trivia Night @ Pat’s Pat’s Blue Rib’n BarBe QueGo get you some!
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Clay Open Studio MAC AnnexOpen to any and all levels of talent and enthusiasm for clay. Come and meet some new friends and practice your art!
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saturday 6Yu Gi Oh Weekly Tournament (Game Hounds Video Games & Gifts 1620 Fort Riley Boulevard Manhattan)$5 to receive and Astro Pack. Money gooes into a prize pool.
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The Grisly Hand w/ Dead Voices(Auntie Mae’s Parlor)$3.
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Scratch Track w/ Tyler Gregory(Aggie Central Station)An acoustic band that mixes driving guitars and explosive percussive vocals to their rich musical gumbo. SCRATCH TRACK blends funk, folk, hip hop, rock, and gospel to create one of the most refreshing and unique sounds to hit the music industry in many years. $3 Cover
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Around the World for $5 Bluestem BistroThis week try some new and tasty food from a different country!
5:00PM
Bingo @ Bobby T’s! Bobby T’sNot your Grandma’s bingo parlor!
6:00PM
Happy Hour 405 della VoceHappy Hour 405 is the place to be every Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day at dellaVoce! Enjoy a variety of wine, beer and cocktails as well as original tapas and “pork wings” . All drinks and tapas are $4.05. Best light dinner in Downtown Manhat-tan!
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The Hype Weekly Open Pitch Meeting Auntie Mae’s ParlorOpen Pitch Meeting. Bring your ideas and opinions and trade them for a drink.
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Sing-a-Long with Mr. Steve Bluestem BistroIf you want to bring your kids in for a fun activity, come join us in our meet-ing room as our manager, Mr. Steve, plays silly kid’s songs!
9:30AM
Love Your Library - Winter Reading for Adults (Manhattan Public Library)It’s the perfect time of year to cozy up with a good book. (See Saturday for full description)
9:00AM
Team Trivia @ Bobby T’s Bobby T’sGrab some buddies and hit Bobby T’s to flex your trivia muscles and have a beer!
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Watercolor Studio @ MAC MAC East AnnexLocation: MAC East AnnexThe MAC Watercolor Studio meets weekly to paint, critique, and encourage one another in an effort to improve their painting skills. They also invite guest speakers and host workshops open to the community. Email [email protected] to learn more.
9:00AM
Love Your Library - Winter Reading for Adults (Manhattan Public Library)It’s the perfect time of year to cozy up with a good book. (See Saturday for full description)
9:00AM
Happy Hour 405 della VoceHappy Hour 405 is the place to be every Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day at dellaVoce! Enjoy a variety of wine, beer and cocktails as well as original tapas and “pork wings” . All drinks and tapas are $4.05. Best light dinner in Downtown Manhat-tan!
4:05PM
Auntie Mae’s Trivia Smackdown!Auntie Mae’s ParlorGrab some buddies and go see your Auntie about some awesome trivia!
8:00PM
Happy Hour 405 della VoceHappy Hour 405 is the place to be every Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day at dellaVoce! Enjoy a variety of wine, beer and cocktails as well as original tapas and “pork wings” . All drinks and tapas are $4.05. Best light dinner in Downtown Manhat-tan!
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Local Love!(Aggie Central Station)The Hype Weekly, the Manhattan Music Coalition, the Wildcat 91.9 and NueWave Studios are partner-ing with Aggie Central Station to get a live mu-sic open mic up and running again in MHK. From 8-10pm at Central Station, local songsters can come strut their stuff in hopes of winning $150 cash and recording time, and afterwards settle in for what we’re calling the Local Love, a weekly show featuring local bands.
8:00PM
Warhammer Fantasy: Week-ly Free Demo & Play (Game Hounds Video Games & Gifts 1620 Fort Riley Boulevard Manhattan)Curious about Warhammer Fantasy? Check out this weekly free demo and play test!
5:30PM
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY READINGAPRIL 7, 2013 AT 7:00PM
NICHOLS THEATRE FREE ADMISSION
K-STATE THEATRE PRESENTS
www.k-state.edu/theatre
Open Mic Comedy Night(Auntie Mae’s Parlor)Get your giggle on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Auntie Mae’s with some of Manhattan’s funiest peoples evar! No cover, good com-edy, stiff drinks!
8:00PM
Auntie Mae’s Trivia Smackdown!Auntie Mae’s ParlorGrab some buddies and go see your Auntie about some awesome trivia!
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Ongoing AttractionsMonday Through Friday9AM-5PM
Weekend Hours May Vary
The Big Picture ShowStrecker-Nelson GalleryFor the first exhibit of 2013, a selec-tion of large scale photographs by Tim Forcade, George Jerkovich and Tom Parish will be featured in the main gal-lery. In addition, there will be ceramics by Sheldon Ganstrom, as well as interior paintings by Lisa Calzavara, abstracts of Venice by Bev Gegen, paintings by Kath-leen Kuchar, and lighthearted paintings by Marie Mason.
Konza: Sculpture by John Douglas PowersBeach Museum of ArtA site-specific, kinetic sculpture evokes the Konza Prairie outside Manhattan. Powers’ work is constructed of brass, aluminum, and stainless steel. When set into motion by an electric motor, the piece’s over 1,100 vertical brass rods sway rhythmically like tall grass in the wind. July 9, 2012 - May 31, 2013
FORCES: The Shaping of Man-hattan, Fort Riley and Kansas State University Flint Hills Discovery CenterThis exhibit is a partnership between the Riley County Historical Museum; the U.S. Cavalry Museum, Fort Riley; Conserva-tion and Restoration Branch, Fort Riley; the Costume and Textile Museum, KSU; and the KSU archives. The exhibit explores the period between 1853 and 1914: our pioneer beginnings, the transition to building a community, and growth into the 20th century.
Museum of WonderBeach Museum of ArtThe Museum of Wonder presented by Beach...In this special exhibition honoring Kansas State University's 150th An-niversary, we invite you to explore an eclectic mix of objects representing K-State's past, present, and future. The Museum of Wonder offers an opportunity to explore objects in nonconventional ways.
The Museum of Wonder contains ob-jects that highlight the diverse fields of research and knowledge pursued at K-State such as and wheat-related products, machines, models and hand-held equipment, books, maps and drawings, prints and paintings, carvings and castings, useful and decorative items, furniture and other household items, clothing and textiles, and animal fossils and skeletons.
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MAC Oil Painting studionew series of 25 paintings from macos to be hung at radinas starting april 5th!from ken matthiesenOur MACOS Artists (MAC Oil Studio) painters are having an art showingin April at Radina's in Aggieville, with an opening the evening of Friday, April 5th. Our artists meet every Thursday at 6:30 pm in the studios located at the MAC.
This is an open themed show allowing art-ists that are part of the MACOil Studio to show and sell works that cover a variety of subjects:landscapes, abstracts, allegorical, street scenes, portraits, etc.
Our artists meet every Thursday at 6:30 pm in the studios located at the MAC. “Moro at 12th” by Mark Athrens
Mark Athrens
“Girl with Short Hair” by Ken Matthiesen
“Dog at Bar” by Groce
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with THE KYLE SEXTON BANDAGGIE CENTRAL STATION$3 cover10pmSaturday April 6th
Nearly Flightless
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big dam foolishnessa series celebrating 50 years of history and controversy for tuttle creek damfrom The kansas historical societyEditor’s Note:
The Corps of Engineers will celebrate Tuttle Creek Lake's 50th anniversary on June 1, 2013. With the help of the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, and the US Army Corps of Engineers at the lake, The Hype Weekly is publishing a series of short articles dealing with the lake’s history, with an emphasis on the controversy concerning its construction.
Other articles will deal with the Flood of 1993, and the recently completed dam safety assur-ance program, which strengthened the dam to better withstand earthquakes. Readers are invited to share their remembrances as the series unfolds.
The Beginning: Flood Control for the Missouri River Basin
Missouri River basin
The Missouri River, the longest river in North America, drains two thirds of the
Great Plains east of the Rocky Moun-tains including parts of 10 states and two Canadian provinces. Many cities with large populations lie along the Missouri River including Kansas City and St. Louis. Dams have been built throughout the system in an attempt to control flooding on the Missouri.
The Kansas River is one of the major tributaries of the Missouri. The Kan-sas and its tributaries drain more than 60,000 square miles of land through Kansas, southern Nebraska, and eastern Colorado. The major tributaries of the Kansas River are the Republican, Big Blue, and Smoky Hill rivers.
Throughout history the Kansas River Val-ley has experienced major flooding. Kansa and Osage villages along with some Indian missions were affected in the 1844 flood.
The next major flood didn’t occur until 1903. By this time many cities had been established along the river. This flood severely impacted the citizens of Manhattan, Topeka, Law-rence, and Kansas City.Kansas River system.
The first official mention of building a dam near the mouth of the Big Blue River north of Manhattan occurred in 1928.
The stated purpose was flood control and conservation of water. No appropriations (provision of money) for building the dam were included, so the project stayed on the drawing board. In 1935 the Kansas River once again flooded. By this time the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers had become the lead federal flood control agency. The Corps recommended the building of seven dams and reservoirs throughout the Mis-souri River, including Tuttle Creek.
These flood control dams would protect residents and businesses along the river as well as provide work for the hundreds of unemployed workers during the Great De-pression. Still no money was appropriated.
In 1944 the Pick-Sloan Plan of the Flood Control Act authorized a gigantic mul-tipurpose civil works project for the Missouri River Basin which once again
included Tuttle Creek. Without financial authorization from Congress the Corps drilled an exploratory core hole at the site that would eventually become the spillway area.
The citizens of the Blue River Valley began their campaign to save their farms and way of life. Many of these families had lived in the valley for generations. They were Kansans who seldom became involved in political action or controversial issues. The prospect of a large reservoir, which would destroy some of the most fertile farm land in Kansas and the way of life for hundreds of families, influenced them to organize and take action.
The catastrophic flood of 1951 was the beginning of the end for the Blue River Valley.
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In Response to readersby Ben ShieldsI think you underestimate the power of both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. The Tea Party may be a bit of a laughingstock, but they have a large num-ber of representatives that made it into Congress, and more importantly, have successfully almost destroyed the GOP from within. Occupy changed the way we talk about inequality in this country, forcing politicians to address it upfront in a way they hadn't before. Bob Thanks for an astute response to my off-handed remarks. Your assessment is correct: both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements have had lasting impact on our political system that won't disappear any time soon. What I meant to get across (somewhat less success-fully than I thought) is that mainstream Americans normally have negative or even condescending views of both movements, and our political system bears nearly all the blame for it. Special interests hijacked the Tea Party almost immediately, and Oc-cupiers never really got any candidates to run on their behalf.You are right about the Tea Party destroy-ing the GOP from within. I saw the CEO of FreedomWorks, Matt Kibbe, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and the man is absolutely blind to the real world. Steve LaTourette, former Republican congress-man, sat right next to him and perfectly articulated the problems of the Tea Party and the Republican establishment (it's un-fortunate such an intelligent, true Ameri-can conservative left congress). Yet LaTo-urette may as well have been Nietzsche lecturing in German outside the classroom window, his back to the students, because Kibbe is totally convinced the Tea Party has presented viable ideas and a diverse field of candidates. That the movement has come to this is symptomatic of the cancer that is wealthy special interests hijacking the political system in this country. I am a lesbian who lives in Kansas, which is a struggle enough in and of itself. Though a relatively conservative person, I am afraid my disillusionment with the GOP will never disappear due to their refusal to see that people like myself have rights. Our governor, for example, doesn't believe that LGBTs have the same right to hate crime protection as other
demographics. But at the same time, the Democratic Party turns me off with their sudden mass endorsements of same-sex marriage, as if the thought just occurred to them. I am grateful this issue is finally seeing light, but can no one else see that Dems are obviously just doing what's most fashionable politically? Instead of feeling empowered, I feel like a pawn in a scheme to earn the most votes. This is why I am a registered Independent. What are your thoughts on this? Sharon You nail exactly what is wrong with mod-ern American liberalism. The Democratic Party is a stale institution playing the same game as Republicans. Right-wingers use the strategy of scaring their base: Obama is a “radical leftist” creating a nation of “takers.” The left tends to propel less dangerous rhetoric, yet the problem you bring up is sickening. Not dissimilar to the way health insurance companies profit off the sick, the Democrats spotlight the op-pressed as a political move.
Take Hillary Clinton for example. I've criticized her before in these pages, and she irked me yet again this month when I watched her endorsement of gay marriage on YouTube. I can't be the only one who had a flashback to 2003 when she spoke of gay marriage as “something most people can't agree with” (that elegant sidestep - “most people”), instead citing her prefer-ence for civil unions. Either Hillary has seen some sort of divine light, or she is like the rest of her party: susceptible to chic.Liberals have been laughing at Rob Port-man for weeks after he came out in sup-port for marriage equality two years after his son revealed he is a homosexual. As if that invalidates his new viewpoint! Only an American liberal could have some sort of criteria for how to evolve your think-ing. I counter, as I'm sure you would, that it is far nobler to endorse homosexual marriage upon discovering it matters to someone you love (especially when it's a risky political move) than when it is simply the current trend in your party.
At this point, Sharon, I am like you, cri-tiquing the Democrats and Republicans from the outside. I turned 18 just days ago and have not yet registered my party affili-ation. Choosing to identify as Independent
is a respectable choice, though I plan to officially become a disgruntled Democrat. As a writer and citizen, I will feel more of use if I am attacking from within. First off, let me say I know this isn't an advice column. But I decided to write to you with an ethical quandary. I enjoy reading your column, so don't take this the wrong way, but you speak (write) in a way that implies you know EVERYTHING about the subject being discussed. At first this bugged me, but I got over it once I realized I agree with nearly all your opin-ions. Maybe you do know a thing or two.So here's the dilemma. I work at a grocery store. Not a locally owned one - a big corporate one, like Wal-Mart, Dillons, etc (I am withholding my real place of em-ployment, however). There's a guy I work with that everybody loves. He's hilarious, charming, and generous too. Sometimes girls who work here ask him for advice on life and he listens patiently and gives his take on it. I like him too. But the thing is, he steals stuff from the store. Paper tow-els, apples, Band-Aids, you name it. He doesn't know that I know, but I've seen him sneak stuff outside multiple times. I can't be the only one who has noticed, because he ain't subtle. Am I ethically obligated to report him and get everyone's BFF ousted? Name Withheld Thank you for this email. I am thrilled at the opportunity to impart my ethical wisdom.Yes, you are. I know it is tempting to excuse yourself because you're work-ing for a corpora-tion - the bad guys, right? Well, maybe so, but that view is limited of whom you are affecting here by letting this yoyo
slide through. I have no idea the number or kind of folks who have lost money from this man's theft. But neither do you. It's safe to assume that more than just the CEO has lost cash. Logically, it's going to take many sales to make up for the stealth of just one item.
From what you've told me, it sounds like this guy has possibly taken dozens of items. That's a lot different than one or two. This is enough to really impact someone's paycheck. Since this is an ethical question, that technically doesn't change anything (you are equally ethically obligated to say something whether he has done this once or 100 times), but it will give you a greater sense of purpose when you handle it. Report him anonymously and no one has to know - especially since you say it can't only be you that knows what's going on.
Alison Balsom and the Scottish EnsembleTrumpet superstar performs Vivaldi, Albinoni and more.7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 9
Itzhak PerlmanThe undeniable reigning virtuoso of the violin.4 p.m., Sunday, April 21
Russian National Ballet Theatre Swan Lake A timeless tale of love and betrayal.4 p.m., Sunday, April 28
McCain box office785-532-6428k-state.edu/mccainDates and artists are subject to change.
K-State students and kids 18 and under half price. K-State faculty/staff and military discounts available.
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Happy April!
Time to shake off the cold, stretch those stiff muscles and head down to Aggieville and enjoy some patio weather!
This time of year is great! Family, friends, BBQ, live music...which of course means the return of Chappie and his Motown sounds every Tuesday night on O’Malley’s patio!
Keep up with us on Twitter, http://twit-ter.com/aggieville where we post events, daily specials, job listings, and available spaces.
Nothing else to say, really...time to head outside!
Tugg.com launched to some fanfare this year, proclaiming that it allowed users to bring “the movies you want at your local theater.” In other words, rather than rely-ing on towns building their own second-run, repertory or revival movie theaters, Tugg would house one-off showings in the towns of it users. In short, it’s social media meets moviegoing.
I decided the only way to properly write about Tugg.com was to try it myself and then write about it. So, I set about organizing the first Tugg.com screening in Manhattan. And I was in immediate luck: part of what makes Tugg a potential suc-cess is that it hit the market with a number of partners, including Carmike Cinemas.
While the theater was an easy choice, the film was anything but. Tugg.com offers thousands of choices, ranging from classic comedies like Spaceballs and Three Ami-gos to current independent offerings like Sound City and A Place at the Table. No matter your taste in film, there’s poten-tially something for everyone.
Finally, I had to choose a date. If Tugg has a particular failing, this is it: since they
generally rely on first-run theaters to make their space available to Tugg users, those users need to work within the confines of those theaters. What that means is weekend screenings are impossible: after all, your screening of Battle Royale can’t compete with Iron Man 3. But the weekdays are often flexible for theaters, so there is cer-tainly space for Tugg and its users to operate.
Those are the only choices I needed to make in order to start a screening. From there, the Tugg staff runs with it, contacting the theater and the film’s distributors to try and nail down the details. The Tugg team is prompt and responsive: they responded to me the same day I made my request. In fact, they were only slowed down by the bureaucracy of the Hollywood studios.
In less than two weeks, my screening was set: THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN … KANSAS. Of course, the screening right now is merely an idea: Tugg screenings are special because they need to sell a certain
number of tickets. If the demand is there, the screening is held. In my case, the magic number is 84. If 84 guests reserve tickets by April 23, the Carmike 12 on Seth Childs will host a screening of The Mup-
pets Take Manhattan on April 30 at 7:30 pm.
Would you like to see how Tugg works, both online and in-person? Want to see a Muppets classic on the big screen? If so, you should visit www.tugg.com/events/3545 and reserve a ticket. Share it with your friends, and meet fellow film lovers
from the Manhattan area.
One final perk of the Tugg.com process is that the person who goes to the effort of organizing the film screening gets to col-lect 5% of the profits. Since I set about or-ganizing this screening for fun and for The Hype Weekly, I’ll be donating any profits I receive (again, promoters only receive money if the screening meets its minimum guest total and is held) to Special Olympics Kansas.
Tugg.com is diy repertory cinemaon demand screening of muppets take manhattan at carmike hangs in the balance!from john carroll
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