We're all familiar with the inner rumblings of bowling centers, the thunder of rolling balls across conditioned lanes, the sound of setting pins like deus ex machina — cacophonous to some, cathartic to Lonnie Waliczek ’96.
For 17 days, the world watched 2,526 athletes from 77 countries go for the gold in the 19th Winter Olympics staged in Salt Lake City. Americans were filled with pride as U.S. athletes won 34 medals in 10 of 15 sports, far more than the 20 originally hoped for. The 70,000-80,000 people who daily packed the sport venues for a thrill-packed view included some 18,000 volunteers — and among them were six students from Wichita State University.
The tribal peoples known as the Asmat are influenced, simultaneously, by three interwoven yet distinctly different realms: the spirit world of their recently dead, the sacred world of their omnipresent ancestors and their real, physical world of people, trees, water and mud.
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