UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 24, 1995
5A
Black fraternity pulls out of Rock Chalk performance
By Julie Howe
Kansan staff writer
This was supposed to be the year that Rock Chalk Revue shed its all-white image.
Alpha Gamma Delta, a predominately white sorority, had teamed with Alpha Epsilon Pi, a predominately Jewish fraternity, and Kappa Alpha Psi, a Black fraternity, to perform a skit for the show. The group was one of five chosen to perform in the annual campus-wide variety show. The show is a fund raiser for the Douglas County United Way.
But members of Kappa Alpha Psi won't be performing after all, members of the three greek organizations said.
Haile Sims, Lawrence junior and member of Kappa Alpha Psi, said members of the fraternity had planned to perform in the show but didn't anticipate the amount of time needed for practices.
Instead, members of the fraternity will help the other two houses with fund raising and ticket sales for the show. Sims said.
This is only the second time that a Black fraternity has participated in the revue.
Dana Hess, Pleasanton, Calif., junior and director for Alpha Gamma Delta, said that because Kappa Alpha Psi is a philanthropic organization, members spent more time doing community-service work than members of social Greek organizations.
"They do a lot of work in the community charity-wise," she said. "Their whole purpose is philanthropic."
Kappa Alpha Psi community service includes gathering and donating food to the needy and playing bingo with the elderly in nursing homes, Sims said.
Todd Schwartzberg, Dallas sophomore and Alpha Epsilon Pi community-service and fund-raising chairman, said he was glad that Kappa Alpha Psi members would at least be able to do their part in fund raising.
"We tried to place them in the show," he said. "But they have other commitments. They decided that fund raising and community-service work would be more beneficial to everyone."
kandy Weinstein, Skokie, Ill., sophomore and an Alpha Epsilon Pi assistant director, said both fraternities understood that the small number of Kappa Alpha Psi members made it difficult for them to keep up with all of their commitments. "There are only 13 of them and they are being pulled in many different directions," he said.
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