CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 20,1995
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Greeks shake a leg for lost children
Fundraiser brings in thousands for charity
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
For about 300 KU students, this weekend was John Travolta meets Charles Darwin — "Saturday Night Fever" versus the survival of the fittest.
The students put their "Soul Train" stamina to the test for a 24-hour dance-a-thon in the conference room of the Ramada Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St., to raise money for the Lost Child Network, which helps to locate missing or runaway children.
Sean R. Crosier / KANSAN
Dancers were grouped into teams of four. At least one dancer from each team was required to be on the floor from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday.
But by 11 a.m. Sunday, the dance floor looked more like a refugee camp than a sock-hop. Instead of gyrating students, blankets, pillows and empty McDonald's sacks littered the floor.
The students had lost their will to do the watusi.
Kip Hall, Overland Park freshman; Bobby Riss, Shawnee freshman; Bruce Johnson, Red Oak, Iowa, freshman; and Al Jackson, St Joseph, Mo., freshman, rest at the end of a 24-hour dance marathon.
Holly Heckathorn, Columbia, Maryland, senior, said she danced all through the night but quit when everyone else left the floor.
"I saw that no one was dancing so I said, 'Screw this,' she said. "You can't
have a good attitude about it when no one else is doing it."
Some participants said that part of the problem was bad music selections. The beat wasn't good and you just couldn't dance to it.
"At 4 or 5 in the morning, they are playing slow jams," Heckathorn said. "You don't need slow music when it's 4:30 a.m. and it's all girls."
Other participants said the dance-a-thon started going downhill when the DJs began repeating songs.
"It was fun until you heard 'Regulator' for the fifth time," said Sarah Carson, Tula, Okla, sophomore.
But despite the lack of disco drive, the event was a successful fund raiser. The event was sponsored by the Delta Chi fraternity and the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
Matt Prentis, an organizer of the event, said that Delta Chi and Gamma Phi Beta expected to present the Lost Child Network a check for between $12,000 and $13,000 after all donations were tabulated.
Participants were supposed to get five sponsors per team to pledge a certain amount of money for each hour the队 danced, Prentis said. Money also came from area businesses and alumni of Delta Chi and Gamma Phi Beta.
The mostly greek participants also received Rock Chalk Revue community service hours for being at the dance-a-thon for 24 hours. Rock Chalk Revue is an annual variety show that raises money for Douglas County United Wav.
Organizers of Rock Chalk Revue give gold, silver and bronze medals to the greek houses that accumulate the most community service hours before the Rock Chalk
show.
Amy Monson, Leawood sophomore, said her tired dancing feet were worth the Rock Chalk hours.
"This sucks," she said. "But we need the hours."
By Teresa Veazey
Kansan staff writer
The license plate on a yellow BMW seen in the Lawrence area said, "No Fear."
But James Law thought the BMW was something to fear after he reported the vehicle to KU police for reckless driving.
Law, Western Springs, Ill., sophomore, told KU police he was traveling north on Iowa Street and turned west onto 19th Street when a yellow BMW came up behind him. The car's Douglas County license tag said, "No Fear."
Law said that the BMW backed off and then came up close again. After doing this, the car quickly passed Law and then cut him off, he said.
The BMW went ahead a short distance and stopped. As Law approached, the car took off again, swerving back and forth.
When Law reached Ellsworth Hall, the driver of the BMW confronted him.
Law told police he asked the driver what he was yelling about. The driver replied, "You made a wide turn," and began cussing at Law and his girlfriend, Gretchen Guerrieri, Lake Forest, Ill., freshman. Words were exchanged as they
all entered Ellsworth. Law told police.
According to the report, Jason May, Peabody junior and resident assistant at Ellsworth, overheard the driver of the BMW say to a friend, "Next time I see them, I will blow them off the road."
Jonathan Koch, Overland Park freshman, was with Law and Guerrieri at the time of the incident. He told KU police he had a run-in with the BMW in mid-January.
Koch observed the car at the I-435/ K-10 interchange as it was weaving through traffic at a speed guessed to be near 100 mph.
Koch said he had contacted Kansas Highway Patrol by cellular phone, but no action was taken. The BMW was spotted by a highway-patrol unit, but it had slowed down.
KU police advised Law and the others that their option was to file a complaint with the district attorney's office. They might have a greater chance of satisfaction if they all would file complaints about each incident, KU police said.
Law and the others said they would do so because they thought something needed to be done to stop this behavior.
CAMPUS in brief
Kansan staff report
Watkins fills two million prescriptions
The pharmacy filled its one millionth prescription January 1975, about 30 years after opening. But it only took 20 years to fill the second million.
Cathy Thrasher, chief pharmacist at Watkins, said that at 12:10 on Friday a student had purchased the prescription. The student, whose name was not released, was given a certificate for $25 of non-prescription items, redeemable at Watkins. Also, students who purchased the five prescriptions before and the five prescriptions after the two millionth were given $5 certificates.
A KU student won a prize Friday for purchasing the two millionth prescription from the Watkins Memorial Health Center pharmacy.
Thrasher said that increases in enrollment at the University of Kansas had accelerated the prescription rate.
The names of the students who won prizes were not released to protect their privacy.
KU women win pageant
Chasmi Brigans, Dodge City junior, was crowned Miss Crimson and Blue, and Randi Johnson, Tulsa, Okla, senior, became Miss KU-Lawrence at the Miss KU-Lawrence scholarship pageant.
The event took place Saturday at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital auditorium.
The two women were selected from six contestants after participating in talent, swimsuit, evening wear and interview competitions. Both winners received $300 scholarships and will advance to the Miss Kansas competition in Pratt in June.
"I feel great about the winners," said Jocelyn Drennon, executive director of the pageant. "The women are just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside."
Drennon said the judges looked for intelligence, personality, talent and physical fitness when selecting the winners of the contest. The purpose of the contest was to give women scholarship money, she said.
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