News Brief: March 30, 2007

A group of students at the University of Kansas will perform a talent show tonight to benefit abused women and children.

The show, “Genius of Women,” will be held at 8:30 p.m at the choir room in Murphy Hall. It is free and open to the public. Donations will go to the Salvation Army.

Maria Thorson, Milwaukee graduate student, helped organize the show. She said the show was designed to celebrate womanhood and promote the dignity of women.

“It’s not aimed just at women,” she said. “We’re trying to bring men into the process of honoring women.”

Several original musical compositions, vocal performances, monologues, poetry and a baton twirler will be featured.

“When you see the show, you see it and you feel it and you understand it,” Thorson said.

— Brian Lewis-Jones

 

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