Spring Break
Red and yellow lights highlighted the piano, bass and drum set on stage. The walls were an indescribable deep blue and on these walls were the faces of Charlie Parker and others who had played their hearts out here many years before. On Friday, Oct. 5, the Activities and Program Council made it possible for UMKC students to experience a part of Kansas City history.
Latino culture, a suicidal father and home cooking were all topics for discussion during a recent celebration of women authors. Listeners gathered Oct. 4 at the Plaza Branch of the Library to hear four authors read selections of their works. These women included Maria Vasquez Boyd, Judith Fertig, Barbara Robinette Moss and Christie Hodgen.
I am not a morning person, but bake me a scone, serve it freshly hot from the oven, and even I will awake cheerfully for such a treat. The scone originated in Scotland as a hearty quick bread before being borrowed by the British and served as a genteel version with tea.
What grade would Creative Writing professor Michael Pritchett's students give his new book? Pritchett, Ph.D., spends much of his time grading stories his students write. There are rules to writing in his class, which he tosses at you the first day. Then he says you can break them, but you better have a good reason.
"Is there anybody going to listen to my story?" Jude asks the audience. This question at the beginning of "Across the Universe" is deceptive. It masks what the film is truly going to be. In a movie musical based on the work of The Beatles, "listen" would seem to be the operative term.
CHAAAEENNNGGGGG!!!!! That's the first thing you hear as The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens, a massive guitar chord from George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker. It's more like a holy muezzin though, a clarion call urging the faithful to worship. The '60s picked up speed when the movie came out as millions of small town kids across the world got a glimpse of life as it could be, not as their parents told them it was.
An old psychiatric hospital sounds like the setting for a horror movie. But on Saturday, Oct. 6, Psi Chi, the fraternity for psychology majors and minors, and the UMKC Psychology Club took a trip to Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Mo. The museum currently sits adjacent to a prison, but it was once located in a ward of the St.
One of the many free groups at UMKC, a psychotherapy group, hopes to give students a place to go to make positive changes in their lives. Psychotherapy is a form of therapy involving a small group of people and facilitators. Group therapy gives people a chance to take a good look at themselves.
UMKC employs some vibrant and talented artists at the School of Fine Arts. Currently, the Department of Art and Art History is holding an exhibition to showcase the faculty. The small gallery, housed within the Fine Arts building, usually contains the work of one artist at a time or works focused on a single theme.
Andy Daughty drives with drunk driving goggles. To promote seat belt safety and sobriety, the UMKC Police Department put on Drive Safe, Drive Smart; Seat Belts and Sobriety. UMKC is competing with 11 other Missouri schools to see which school's students and staff wear the most seat belts.
pledge against violence - The UMKC Women's Center and Men Against Violence student group hosted "These Hands Don't Hurt" last week. By stamping their handprints on a white banner and making a visual statement against violence, they are declaring they will never use their hands to hurt another person.
Tuesday, Oct. 9 Thesis and Dissertation Workshop: Learn the tricks of the trade 7-9 p.m. in room 303 of the Miller Nichols Library. Kansas City Gay History Tour:LGBT sponsored bus tour of Kansas City's gay history. 3 p.m. at University Center. A Public and Private Death: Eleanor Clift will be lecturing on how she cared for her dying husband and continued to report on the Terri Schiavo case at 7 p.
