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The Battalion
Monday, January 17,1994
No 'dudes' allowed at dude ranch
Founder says all-female
retreat allows women
to experience ranch life
The Associated Press
MATF1ELD GREEN, Kan. — Lisa Ribar pulls a
long plastic glove over her arm, yanks it in place
and looks at the cow standing in the chute.
She slides her arm inside the cow and, gazing
upward, listens as the veterinarian tells her to poke
around gently and find a spot that responds to her
touch.
"Oh! Awesome. I feel it. A baby cow. Awe
some."
Ribar, 35, an office worker from Rogers, Ark.,
paid for the experience as a weekend guest at
Prairie Women Adven- —
tures And Retreat.
On this clear autumn
Saturday, about 40 cows
wait to be run through the
chute so the vet can learn
if they're pregnant. Cattle
also will be vaccinated,
and some will have their
horns cut.
The work is done by the
dozen or so guests, three ranch hands, the vet and
Jane Koger, who operates the retreat out of her
6,000-acre ranch in the Flint Flills of southeast
Kansas.
Koger notes after Ribar does her pregnancy
check that the guest has what's called "the prairie
woman look."
"That's the look that says, 'T just caught the
cow's head as it came through the chute, and I'd
never touched a cow before and didn't know what
a chute was, and yet I just did this/" she said.
That's what life is about at Roger's ranch:
women feeling courageous and capable, like there
isn't much that can stop them from doing what
they want — especially when they're driving a 2-
ton hay bailer.
It's also what Pulitzer-Prize winning author
William Least Heat Moon may have seen in Koger
when he wrote about her and the rest of Chase
County in his latest book, "PrairyErth.”
Koger, 40, a fourth-generation Chase County
rancher, left the region briefly for college and re
turned home in 1979 to get into the family busi
ness. But she defies the stereotypes of a cattle
rancher.
She drives a four-door Mazda, loves Broadway
and travels to New York City for the shows. And,
although she grew up eating meat twice a day, she
"The women who come here
get to do non-traditional jobs,
and it is empowering."
now limits that to about two times a week.
"The truth is that I wanted to prove to myself,
and to others, that I can play this game of ranch
ing. And, 1 have done that. I can do this, and I can
do it well. But what I'm about now is education
and women, and the good ol' boys can't d 3 that."
Koger started Prairie Women Advent ires and
Retreat in 1986 because she felt a need among
women to experience ranch life and do chores that
meant getting smelly, dirty and sore.
Female-only guests stay in the bunkhouse,
which was designed by women and built by an all
women crew in about two months last year. Guests
start the day about 8 a.m and spend their time
herding, branding, castrating and vaccinating cat
tle depending on the season. Meals are served in
the bunkhouse, which also has a deck and a hot
tub, where guests often linger long into the night.
Why only women?
"Men have so many more opportunities in life,
. and ranching is so tradi
tionally male anyway, that
we're here to help women
understand ranching and
let them take from it what
they can, which I happen
to think is a lot," Koger
Jane Koger, founder of Prairie sa} ^ nce
Women Adventures and Retreat
PrairyErth"
chronicles the past and
present of Chase County,
Koger said she knew there would be a surge of in
terest in the area and in her ranch. She was right.
Prairie Women Adventures and Retreat costs
about $200 for a weekend and has become a popu
lar draw for women from New York to Kansas
City to Washington willing to trade their suits,
heels and Volvos for jeans, boots and horses.
"Prairie Women is really about three things, ed
ucation, environment and empowerment," Koger
said. "The women who come nere get to do non-
traditional jobs, and it is empowering."
Many come not so much for what they can learn
about ranching but rather for what ranching can
teach them about themselves.
"I got here, and I just felt: 'Ah. At last. A place I
can be comfortable," said ranch hand Jessica
Panko, 24, of Boston.
Panko, who recently graduated from Harvard
with a degree in comparative religions, had been
working at the ranch for about a month and
planned to stay for a year.
"It's so exciting. They come from all walks of
life," said Prairie Women director Rhea Miller, a
longtime friend of Roger's.
"When the ranch hands first see the guests, they
think, 'Oh no, they'll never get along or that they'll
never be able to do this work.' But by the end of
two days they are pushing up cattle and getting
each other's addresses," she said.
Two earthquakes
hit southeastern
Pennsylvania
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Two light
earthquakes shook southeastern
Pennsylvania Saturday night.
There were no immediate reports
of injuries or damages.
The first quake measured 4.0
on the Richter scale and hit at 7:43
p.m. EST, said John Minsch,a
spokesman for the National
Earthquake Information Center in
Golden, Colo. The second quake
measured 4.6 on the Richter scale
and hit at 8:49 p.m., he said.
"It probably shook pretty vio
lently for 10 or 20 seconds," Min-
sch said. "You'd have to be there
to really feel it."
The earthquakes' epicenters
were near Wyomissing Hills, just
west of Reading, Minsch said.
Reading is 50 miles northwest of
Philadelphia.
Both quakes were classified as
light, but the second one could
have been felt as far away as New
York City, which is 105 miles
away, Minsch said.
No injuries had been reported
in Reading as of 10:35 p.m., a po
lice dispatcher said.
"The room just shook. It was
hard to explain. I've never experi
enced one before," said city po
lice Officer Fred Brossman.
"It wasn't that extensive, but it
shook really good. I was watch
ing and my soda can started
trembling," he said.
In Philadelphia suburbs, police
departments said they were del
uged with phone calls. Residents
of West Chester, about 25 miles
from Reading, said they felt the
ground shake, KYW-AM reported.
The Richter scale is a measure
of the strength of an earthquake
as recorded by the ground mo
tion. Each increase of one whole
number indicates a ten-fold in
crease in the strength of the
quake.
The great San Francisco earth
quake of 1906 has been estimated
at 8.3 on the Richter scale. An
earthquake with a magnitude be
tween 6 and 7 can cause severe
damage.
Officials plan to tear down 25-year-old HemisFair Arena
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — City officials say they
are hoping to tear down the 25-year-old Hem
isFair Arena to clear space for a $140 million
expansion of the city's convention facilities.
The 16,057-seat arena, which opened for the
1968 World's Fair, lost one of its main tenants
when the NBA's San Antonio Spurs moved
this season into the Alamodome, a new state-
of-the-art stadium that anchors the city's hopes
for luring major conventions.
Converting the HemisFair site into an addi
tional 192,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit
space to the 240,000-square-foot Convention
Center could be another drawing card, officials
say.
"The Arena has got to come down," said
Mayor Nelson Wolff, who has taken an active
role in preliminary plans to expand the Con
vention Center. "That is the only option."
"We tried to save it, but we
couldn't work around it."
Roland Lozano,
Dome Development director
The city council is expected to begin re
viewing and discussing an expansion plan
within a few weeks.
If plans are approved this spring, construc
tion would begin in mid-1996 and would fin
ish by the end of the decade, officials said.
Wolff said using the arena site would help
ease some of the problems associated with ex
panding the center, while continuing to use it
for conventions.
"We tried to save it, but we couldn't work
around it," said Dome Development Director
Roland Lozano, the team leader for all conven
tion-related activities. "We're talking contigu
ous space, not a 50-foot corridor."
Added councilman Roger Perez, whose dis
trict covers the downtown area: "There is no
doubt that when the plan is discussed and de
bated, it will be a difficult decision, but we
need to address the needs of the Convention
Center for the next 25 years."
Jack Orbin, president and owner of Stone
City Attractions, which has booked road
shows and concerts in San Antonio since 1972,
said demolishing the Arena "would be a disas
ter."
The arena is the only facility in the city that
can accommodate concerts in the 5,000-to-
14,000 attendance range, he said. The arena
has 16,000 seats suitable for sporting events
and about 14,000 for concerts.
Keeping the arena also could prove costly
to the city. It already needs as much as $2.5
million in repairs.
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