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Friday, November 4, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Orange juice, soda entertain stars
Staff Writer
Limousines, caviar, meditation rooms,
private telephones and various stage
equipment are among the special items
requested by entertainers who perform at
University of Kansas, according to Mark
Woodman, SUA special events board member.
"There's no telling what a performer will ask for," Woodman said. "It just depends on the various performers and what they've specified in their contracts."
Woodman said the Beach Boys, who performed at KU last month, requested caviar, quiche Lourraine, large quantities of seaweed and a crayfish soup, a van for luggage and a meditation room.
"When you're working in a finite building, it's impossible to obtain everything a performer requests," Woodman said. "We couldn't build a meditation room on a hill."
Field House just because the Beach Boys requested it."
WOODMAN SAID comedian George Carlin, who performed at KU last Friday, was one of the easiest performers he's dealt with.
"Carlin is a very low-key, very down-home person," Woodman said. "All he requested were two six-packs of club soda, two six-packs of Coke and a bowl of fruit."
Woodman said that Carlin stayed at the lawrence in Lawrence when he performed at KU.
"Carlin is just a different animal," Woodman said. "Some promoters insist on their art arriving in town from the airport, but we wouldn't have anything to do with that."
Woodman said the Beach Boys stayed in a hotel in Kensington City.
'Oftentimes, since a group flies between
dates, they stay overnight in a hotel by the airport." Woodman said.
Woodman said all performers have security specifications written in their
Members of a private security firm in Kansas City and SUA security volunteers are employed to watch the entertainers, Woodman said.
"USALLY WE have nine uniformed and nine armed patrolmen guarding the dressing rooms and backstage areas," Woodman said. "I'm usually backstage stopping people from crawling in windows. Something is constantly on."
ZZ Top, a group that canceled a performance at KU last spring, requested specifically that no cameras, no bottles and no guns be allowed in the concert. Woodman said. These restrictions were printed on the tickets.
"They also wanted locked dressing rooms
Teachers to discuss preschooling
Local preschool and public school kindergarten problems next week to teacher problems.
Evelyn Swartz, director of the School of Education's Early Education and Development Program, said Thursday that because preschools are not public, there hasn't always been full communication between teachers and public school kindergarten teachers.
The need to avoid duplicating activities in
preschools and kindergarten classes will be one of the topics the teachers will discuss in class.
She said she did not think the function of prekindergarten programs was to prepare children for kindergarten, but that they were to give children an orientation to school that helps them when they enter kindergarten.
"Unfortunately," Swetz said, "some of the prekindergarten programs are involved
House bill requires labels on saccharin foods, drinks
in teaching children some skills that may not be appropriate for their age, namely math.
The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Lawrence Room at the Community Center.
U.N. to call for arms embargo
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill that would require cancer warning labels on diet food and soft drinks containing saccharin was approved by the House last night and sent to the Senate.
The bill, approved by voice vote, was expected to be adopted by the Senate today.
The legislation would block for 18 months a Food and Drug Administration ban on the artificial sweetener. The FDA wants to prohibit saccharin as an additive to food and beverages, but permit its sale as a non-prescription drug.
Under the compromise, the label on saccharin food and drink products shipped from the US were issued.
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—The U.N. Security Council has agreed to meet at 11 a.m. today for immediate adoption of a Western resolution clamping a permanent mandatory arms embargo on South Africa, council diplomats reported.
SENATE AND HOUSE conferees worked out the bill as a compromise to two different resolutions.
"Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals."
THE HEALTH, Education and Welfare secretary would be authorized to require vending machines dispensing food or beverages containing saccharin to bear a statement warning of the health risks that could be caused by the sweetener.
UNDER THE BILL, grocery and other retail stores that sell sachinar products must display signs warning customers of the risk of food requirement would not apply to restaurants.
They said agreement came last night after more than two hours of private consultations in which the 15 council members negotiated minor changes.
Saccharin, the only artificial sweetener left on the market, has been linked in Canadian studies to bladder cancer in laboratory rats.
The labeling requirement would not affect saccharin food products that are made and shipped within state boundaries. That would be left to state governments.
Retail establishments would have to make available in the store literature on the pros and cons of each.
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and telephones in the dressing rooms," Woodman said.
Woodman said promoters usually sent
diagrams and lightings to the entertainers want the
diagram and lighting.
Singer Jimmie Sphreis wanted a piano on stage that had an A-440 pitch. Carlin wanted a stool, a pitcher of water and a folding chair.
THE BEACH BOYS wanted eight spot lights for their show.
They requested the most lights of any show I know about," Woodman said.
Woodman said SUA stage crew volunteers build and set the stage the night before the show. He said they were scheduled to start that morning. The stage crew the light crew is then supposed to start work.
"If something is thrown off schedule, and invariably something is, the best thing is to remain calm," Woodman said. "You just have to know what to complain, careful planning is the key."
Woodman said performers sometimes ask or certain things too late for SUA to support.
He said that Spheris requested that plants be put on stage the day of the show.
"WE JUST couldn't do it," Woodman said. "There just weren't any spare plants hanging around and we couldn't go out and buv any."
He said that Jerry Jeff Walker requested nurtus sandos and salad for dinner. He also served a variety of sushi.
Woodman said performers often ask for chicken dishes rather than steak.
"It's just too hard to have steak prepared
itself." He asked. "The Woodman said,
'Chicken must be coated with oil.'
"It all depends on their tastes are," Woodman said.
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