Students play elite game to relieve pressure
By BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Writer
Backgammon has long been a status symbol among the socially elite, but KU students and Lawrence residents say they are just playing it to relieve pressures.
"Backgammon is a real relaxing and spontaneous game," Evelyn Cape, Lawrence graduate professor at the University of California, said of the mood because it's also very intellectual and competitive."
more inviting than many of her friends were playing several years ago, but they have not impressed.
"THEN ONE boring Christmas break I sat down with Marge Thompson and played, I loved it and have been playing ever since," she said.
Thompson, who attended KU last year, has played in Lawrence and Kansas City backgammon tournaments. She said the team often to play was to play with someone better.
"Knowing your odds is necessary, too," she said. "There are really three people playing—two players and the realice."
A backgammon board consists of 24 triangular cells. Two people play, each player having 15 men-or counters.
The object of the game is to get all of the counters across the board and then off it, passing the other player's counters coming from the other side. Moves are determined by throw in dice of dice.
IF ONE player's counter lands in a cell
that is occupied by only one of the opponent's counters, the opponent's marker is sent back to start over.
The first player to get all his counters off the board wins.
"But back game is the secret to being a good player," Thompson said.
"But if you're really good, there are a lot of ways to win," Thompson said.
Back game is when two or more of a player's counters are in the opponent's home court and it is evident that the opponent is winning.
THE TOUWAMENTS Thompson has
said she offer prize money but she
has not won any way.
She said a group of her friends usually played in beds or in their homes about once a week. But because Kansas laws prohibit, most bars don't have boards or tables.
with the incarnate "M" of the SAU has sponsored a backgammon club for Mark Hazelrigg, this year's coordinator, said attendance at tournaments this semester has been low.
But Hazeirig said tournaments would continue to be scheduled at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Union, in hopes that more people would become interested.
"I have a small magnetic set that I carry
"EVERYONE SEEMS to play in them, they really need a place to play, he said.
Allen Johnson, Lawrence graduate student, said he had been playing for about three years but was unaware SUA sponsored a club.
"But you have to be in the right frame of mind to play." Johnson said, "Rather than to fit it into a scheduled time, I'd rather just pick it up when I want."
"I's a great way to release pressure" he
talks, "think it's very exciting and mind-
expanding."
Dole, Talmadge sponsor emergency farm relief bill
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate's ranking Democratic and Republican farm leaders yesterday joined in sponsoring an emergency bill designed to offer federal payments to growers who die 33 million acres of croplands.
The two farm bloc leaders—Sen. Hern Talmadge, D-Ga., Senate agriculture committee chairman, and Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., ranking GOP agriculture committee member—said at a news conference they hoped to rush the bill to President Jimmy Carter's desk within two or three weeks.
Talmadge he intended to call for a vote on the measure in his committee next Wednesday. After that said he would take action, but he has not reached the Panama Canal treaties to pass the farm bill.
and speed it to the House of Representatives.
Talmadge said if the new bill works as planned, market prices for wheat would rise from about $2 to $5 bushel to $3.50 and corn from about $2 to $3.00 a bushel. Cotton prices could go up to 60 cents a pound and soybeans to $6 a bushel, he said.
University Daily Kansan
The Senate Agriculture Committee currently is approaching the end of two weeks of public hearings on the issue and a new Congress must move now to alert灾事.
Both Talmadge and Dole quick action was needed to improve the farm economy because farmers-plagued by low grain prices, the grip of a growing economic crisis.
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