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Kansan Weekend Edition
Friday
March 12, 1999
Section:
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Vol. 109 • No. 112
WWW.KANSAN.COM
(USPS 650-640)
This week's trip through the Web focuses on the history and customs of Ireland's most famous holiday. St. Patrick's Day is Wednesday, and anyone found not wearing green is fair game for being pinched. These links will make sure that students find the luck o' the Irish spirit.
■ www.patswebgraphics.com/
stmat/stnat.html
This Web site is devoted to Web graphics, borders and backgrounds. Come here to download green wallpaper for your computer, and retrieve things such as shamrocks, lepechauns, pots of gold and other assorted holiday goodies.
■ www.serve.com/iaf/links
html
This Web site is full of links related to Irish and Celtic culture and history. Find out why people really started celebrating St Patrick's Day.
■ www.xenus.com/postcard/
spatricks.htm
Come here to send virtual St. Patrick's Day cards to friends and family. As if it weren't enough that the holiday has been exploited for lapel buttons and green beer.
www.geocities.com/~alphabetsound/sto.htm
This Web site, although written with children in mind, is a great source of all things Irish that have to do with St. Patrick's Day. There are links to music and food sites, as well as Irish history and culture, and the origins of St. Patrick's Day. It also has links to great clip art sites for Web site design.
CONCERTCALENDAR
Tonight:
Brown Bear Brewing Co.
729 Massachusetts St. — Simplexity
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. — Mudhoney, Dragqueen, Creature Comforts
Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. — Mike Hosty Trio
Tomorrow:
The Bottleneck — Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, Kim Lenz and Her Jaguars;
Brown Bear Brewing Co. Fast Johnny Ricker
Jazzhaus — Majestics Rhythm Revue
Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. — Stabbing Westward, Placebo, Slick
Sunday:
The Bottleneck — Swing Set
Index
News ...2A
Movies ...5A
Feature ...8A
Coupons ...3B
NCAA scores ...2B
Horoscopes ...2B
Classifieds ...6-7B
Sport of the week. 8B
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Student variety show celebrates 50 years of service musical skits
By Jamie Knodei
jknodei@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Last night, for the 50th consecutive year, Rock Chalk Revue performers sang and danced their way into thousands of dollars for charity.
Ten living groups have written, directed and produced musical skits to coincide with this year's theme "Wonders Never Cease." The production opened last night at the Lied Center and will continue with shows at 7 tonight and tomorrow night.
"I don't know how the directors do it each year — they keep coming up with bigger and better ideas," said Julie Hanson, Rock Chalk Revue executive producer and Minneapolis senior.
ducel and minicorporations
The skits were performed by sorority and fraternity pairs Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Kappa Sigma sigma sorority, Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Gamma sorority and Delta Chi fraternity, Delta Delta Delta sorority
and Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Skits take the audience from a funeral, to a casino, to a downtown apartment building, to a World War II army base and to a party in the sky on judgment day.
or a petty in the sky. The theme is, "We make the theme broad so the groups can interpret it anyway they like," Hanson said.
Performers said that it took a large commitment for the performance to be successful.
Katie Till, Wichita senior and Rock Chalk performer, said that since the end of January her group had practiced every night and on the weekends.
night ahead on the weekend.
"I didn't understand the difficulty of organizing 50 people into two straight lines," she said.
Students said that this year's productions were impressive.
Cara Gugat, Colorado Springs, Colo.. senior, said the costumes and scenery were outstanding.
"Every year it just keeps getting better and better," she said.
Living groups were recognized last night for the average number of community service hours each member had participated in within the last year.
The gold award was given to groups that averaged 13 or more hours of community service per member.
service per member.
Winners included the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Kappa Sigma fraternity, Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, Alpha Xi Delta sorority, Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Kappa Delta sorority and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Sigma Chi fraternity and Sigma Delta Tau sorority.
The student-produced variety show is one of the country's largest and longest running student-run philanthropies, Hanson said.
See REVUE on page 2A
Alpha Chi Omega sorority women dance the "Booie Woogie" during their performance of "Swinging to Victory" at the Lied Center. Alpha Chi Omega teamed with Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity for the 50th anniversary of the Rock Chalk Revue. Photo by Rana Cline/KANSAN
Faculty express dissatisfaction with procedures, pay and benefits
By Kristi Reimer
kreimer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
About 80 percent of faculty members are unhappy with the amount they are being paid, according to a University of Kansas survey measuring work satisfaction.
"Results of the survey indicate that faculty at the University of Kansas do not feel valued by their employer," states the report, which was prepared and released by the Faculty Compensation Committee at the request of University Governance.
In addition, 60 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with benefits, raises and the way pay was administered.
The survey was mailed to about 1,500 faculty who were tenured or working towards tenure, and 559,or 37 percent, responded.
About 70 percent of faculty said they were slightly dissatisfied with operating procedures, which refers to rules, regulations and paperwork. More than half were slightly dissatisfied with their degree of influence on policies and procedures.
Besides pay issues, the Faculty Work Satisfaction Survey evaluated faculty members' attitude toward promotion, supervision, operating procedures, co-workers, nature of work and communication at the University.
But the survey indicates that most faculty are content with the people they work with and the nature of their work. About 75 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their department chair, dean or director. More than 80 percent were satisfied with their co-workers, while
See UNIVERSITY on page 3A
Shall we Dance?
The Kansas men's basketball team faces shooting prowess of the Evansville Purple Aces today in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
See page 1B
Pinning the competition
The KU wrestling club heads to its second national tournament in only its second year of existence.
See page 8B
Celebrating agriculture
A Lawrence farming family will travel to Washington D.C. next week to discuss their trade to inner-city children as part of National Agriculture Week.
See page3A