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See more Halloween photos on the antelope pages 5, 6 & 7 Volume 117, Issue 8 | 11.4.15 | www.unkantelope.com Pumpkin carving, decorating an annual success A sneak peek into Photo by Jessica Nichols On Thursday in the FAB, art students designed their selected Communication Day pumpkins. There were a wide variety of pumpkins that were Games and a live broadcast carved and painted. The pumpkins were lined along the added to this year’s event hallway and students were allowed MARIA PICKERING to vote for different categories. Antelope Staff Along with the pumpkin carving contest, there were paint filled Students in Lambda Pi Eta, in pumpkins that could be shot at a collaboration with the Department of white sheet using a slingshot, and Communication, are diligently planning a photo booth put on by the UNK this year’s Communication Day on Nov. Photography Club. 13, a day planned to showcase what it has to offer to the Kearney community and the UNK campus. See more photos on page 5. Students from across campus can meet and learn from professionals who work in the fields of communication through panels of: senior students, faculty and Starita details Standing Bear’s journey for justice working professionals. Holdrege junior Jaimee Silver, an organizational and relational Landmark civil rights case decrees “an Indian is a person under the meaning of the law” communications major, said communication students are excited about KORI HIXSON Hub urged readers to learn about this piece the panels. Antelope Staff of Nebraska history saying, “Hundreds of “There are three Poncas died during the arduous journey different panels this “I am a Man” author Joe Starita will and after they reached their reservation. year that each service a speak on campus Thursday at 7 p.m., in As Standing Bear’s son lay dying, the chief different purpose. The Copeland 142. promised he would bury him back home in student panel is a group Starita, former reporter for the Miami Nebraska.” of seniors talking about Herald, wrote this story of Chief Standing The small group of Poncas set the major, what they Bear and the Ponca tribe as they sought to out for treacherous home, but the U.S. have learned and where JAIMEE SILVER co-exist with European settlers in the late Army corralled them in Omaha where they see the major taking 1800s. newspapers told the tragic story. Though they were a peaceful tribe, the Later sympathizers “organized and COMMUNICATION DAY, PAGE 10 Poncas were forced to relocate in 1877 from launched a trial to free the Poncas and, Nebraska to “Indian Territory” (present- more importantly, to determine whether day Oklahoma) where they had little U.S. law ought to recognize the natives as means of sustenance and were decimated human beings,” the Hub editorial said. Courtesy Guest speaker postponed by disease. As the trial for justice proceeded, Lincoln author Joe Starita has been In this book, “I Am a Man,” (2009) Standing Bear argued “that his blood was critically acclaimed for his book “I am LAURIE VENTEICHER Starita details the years-long struggle as red as a white man’s putting forth the a Man” crafted around the story of Asst. Editor/Copy Editor of Ponca Chief Standing Bear’s journey argument, ‘I am a man.’” Standing Bear, a Ponca Native American walking from Oklahoma and finally Starita’s book recounts the tale of chief who argued in U.S. District Court in Tim Schlattmann’s Monday, Nov. 2 battling legalities through the Nebraska the court case, which sought to answer 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans appearance at the University of Nebraska at Court system. are "persons within the meaning of the Kearney was postponed until possibly next An editorial Oct. 17 in the Kearney STANDING BEAR, PAGE 10 law" and have the right of habeas corpus. semester. news Nebraska a Portal to Korean Pride Untold Kearney-Korea connection began in 1900s JAKE KIM Reader opinion FREAKY About the Author Jake Kim is thrilled to be sustaining Kearney’s monumental connection with Korea. A grandson of Kim Dae-jung, president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003 and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Kim joined the UNK Staff in the fall of 2015 and is committed to promoting the university and Kearney to Korea and the rest of Asia. On a farm roughly a mile west of the A historian cannot talk about Buffalo County Courthouse in Kearney, FAST Korea without alluding to its citizens’ Park founded The Young Korean Military prolonged, profound, and disheartening School in June 1909, four years after yet triumphant history of defending the establishment of the Nebraska State the country from thousands of years of Normal School at Kearney. SANDWICHES invasions. Consequently, Korean natives their native land to bring freedom and innately hold fast to a deep sense of pride independence from Japan. and patriotism and show no boundaries in In 1908, Yong-man Park, one of the protecting the nation over which millions pioneering Koreans to set foot in Kearney of our ancestors sacrificed their own lives. and all of America, enrolled in the Reserve Out of America’s fifty states, most Officers’ Training Corps while studying larger than South Korea, who could have political and military science at the thought Kearney, Nebraska, “in the middle University of Nebraska–Lincoln. On a farm of nowhere” would coauthor Korea’s roughly a mile west of the Buffalo County prestigious history? Courthouse in Kearney, Park founded The Fast-forwarding to the twentieth Young Korean Military School in June 1909, century, from 1910 to 1945, Japan overtook four years after the establishment of the and ruled Korea, a process that was initiated Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney, with the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1876. The now called the University of Nebraska passionately nation-loving Koreans were at Kearney (UNK); he is highlighted in forced and hidden behind the Japanese flag Korean history and war museums for this and prohibited from speaking Korean or accomplishment. learning about Korea in public, and Korean His school offered courses in English, history became deliberately distorted; TM Korean, history, and agriculture in addition those who disobeyed or retaliated were to army training to Korean Americans SERIOUS DELIVERY! inevitably tortured or even murdered. willing to fight for the preservation of their ★ JIMMYJOHNS.COM ★ Anticipating this merciless and roots. The following year, Hastings College, intolerable domination following the where he went to school before temporarily Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905, reuniting with his uncle in Denver, Korean families who lost hope immigrated Colorado prior to the latter’s assassination, to the United States in the early 1900s. granted Park access to Ringland Hall TO FIND THE LOCATION NEAREST Aware of the Kearney Military Academy for the summer for additional twenty and Kearney High School Cadet Company, acres of college farm on which to train a handful of prideful Korean men, working YOU VISIT JIMMYJOHNS.COM thirteen incoming soldiers. William Kim, as houseboys in exchange for room an employee of the Industrial School in and board, entered Kearney to receive Kearney, escorted the trainees. ©2014 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. education in English and army training in preparation for the eventual return to MORE @ unkantelope.com 2 November 4, 2015 the antelope by Austin Gabehart news ‘Evil of feminism’ sentiment thwarts gender rights Speaker Irvine strives to liberate women from unfair system of rights ANTHONY M. HUNKE her presentation, “Exporting the Culture opinion, national or social origin, property, Doctor Irvine moved on to talk about Antelope Staff Wars: Global Organizing and Gender birth or other status.” the different phases that women’s rights Equality.” This event was sponsored by the She said, despite this breakthrough, have endured throughout history. Capable of taking International Studies and Women’s and the original draft left out the word, “sex,” PHASE ONE (1975-85) remarkable steps, able to Gender Studies programs of UNK. and it took a figure like Eleanor Roosevelt The first phase examined cultural drift to the background Doctor Irvine began by talking about to have it brought back into inclusion. relativeness and how the United States’ or fly to the foreground the conference in Beijing in 1995 as a HISTORY OF EMPOWERMENT definition of the violation of women might and help where needed, landmark in women rights history. In the 1950s and 1960s, declarations be different from a different country’s desirous to change the world for the She said over 30,000 people attended, passed on behalf of the world’s women. definition. Doctor Irvine gave the example better and lead the fight for equality. Is with an additional couple of thousand Women gained some forms of equality: of India petitioning for American girls to she the spokeswoman women need or the turned away due to a shortage of seating 1. The right of choice in a marriage stop cosmetic surgery because they viewed spokeswoman women deserve? space. This was, and still remains, the 2. The right for child support that as the desecration of women. At this point, readers might be largest gathering of people to talk about 3. The right to maintain their own PHASE TWO (1985-95) scanning the sky for the Bat-signal, but I gender equality and women’s rights. name within the constructs of marriage am not referring to Batman. I am talking Irvine outlined events leading up to This phase focused on blurring the In 1979, the Women’s Bill of Rights, lines between public and private affairs. At about Dr. Jill A. Irvine, the co-director this momentous rallying cry for women.