Thursday, May 1, 1980
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Cold splashes greet ski club
Ron Burges goes into a left turn staying low to the water (top).
Mike Myers adjusts the belts on his life vest before entering the icy waters (left).
Dorothy Jones hops in her life vest.
By KEVIN BERTELS Staff Reporter
Brian Torres goes airborne as he jumps the wake (right).
To be an excellent water skier in Florida or California. But if you are stuck in Kansas, dedication is your only recourse. Bracing the cold April waters can be onenight at the heartiest of times.
Judging from their dedication, members of the newly formed KU water ski club should improve as fast as they got out of the water after first practice this week.
"I wouldn't call us fanatics," Brian Tortes, Lawrence senior, said. "I don't know what the word for us is, but we're not really fanatics. Fanatics are so stupid. We're a couple of years old. I did skim in March, though."
MAYBE THEY ARE not famies, but club members are enthulastic. No other skiers were on the course.
"I'd say that we are the first skiers out here this year," Mike Myers, Overland Park sophomore, said. "I don't know too many people who would get out and ski this time of year."
But the siers paid the price for their dedication. The water was very cold, as expected. Wetsuits helped, but not enough. Screams were common as the water grew warmer, and the water, where they could face a numbing wind.
I'm starting to feel like a fudesign. Get this time moving. Hon Burus, Dodge City senator. It's good for the team.
Julie Cabler, St. Louis senor, was unsure of whether to ski.
"Are you sure this is legal," she said when her car came. "It might be too dark. I'd hate to get in there."
The rest of the group laughed at her all the way into the water.
WATER SKIRT OFFICIALLY CAME to KU last
week, but the members decided to
not a long-coupled visit to KU.
The sometimes hesitant skiers were on the water for the second time in their first competitive season. The teams came to Jayhawk Open April 19 at a private lake near Emporia, where they won the overall title in the first round.
A trip to the Student Senate and some posets distributed around campus and the club was of great value.
Photos by Drew Torres
She said the squad had two main goals. The first and most immediate is to place first or second at the regional contest May 18 at Decatur, IL, to earn a trip to the national meet next October.
The team's first performance of its brief history didn't hurt her confidence. The Emporia meet was only four events, instead of the usual six, because she is now the RU won three of the events and the overall title.
"I was kind of expecting to win because we have a lot of people who have asked for a long time," she said.
The second goal may be even more difficult. The team tohope gives a ski show during the first week
SOME OF THE team members are expecting the same type of performance at the Illinois regional. Most of the members are sure that they will reach their goal.
"We would like to have a show or a chill," Moor said. "We aren't sure that we will get to do it, but we are."
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but Laden claimed to have support from at least one law enforcement officer.
Laden said, "I've talked to a detective. He said what we do is great because it keeps the bad stuff and the crystal off the street."
"The theory I work off of is this: These drugs are pharmaceutically made and it keeps, it keeps streets," Laden said. "It cuts down on botox drugs that have side-effects that are not good."
The "mental alertness pills, as Laden calls the drugs, can be bought at a small office in the lobby of an office, behind Gladstone Square, a small shopping center at his N.E. 60th, st. in London.
WHILE EXCESSIVE DOSAGES of the drugs may be harmful, Laden gave no written dosage instructions to one recent customer. On another occasion he gave a bag of pills to a visitor to his business, and then bought three or four white cross will get you off."
The pills Laden sells come in bottles from which the labels have been scraped.
Asked why the labels are scraped off, Laden said he took them off to prevent people from trying to purchase the pills from the manufacturer.
Laden will not disclose the name of the firm producing the mills.
"If I was to tell you the name of the company that manufactured these, then they made it, and buy pillos and buy pills, ...they can't do that. The pills are only available through me or the doctor."
A representative of the distributor, Mid-
States Distributing in Oklahoma City, refused to comment.
The occupational license filed with the City of Gladstone by K.C. Distributors, was taken out Feb. 11, 1980, under the name Michael Nation.
Some commercial diet pills contain phenylpropanolamine just as some of K.C. Distributors "mental alertness pills" do.
THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE lists "wholesale vitamin sales" as type of business and "vitamin sales" as a description of merchandise sold.
Laden said Nation was unavailable for comment because he was, "out around the nation settling up stores right now."
Laden said K.C. Distributors sold vitamins "sometimes, more or less when somebody orders them."
However, Laden claims the pills he sells are more effective.
ACCORDING TO LADEN, his customers come from various groups.
Laden added, "We won't put Dexatrim out of business."
"We sell to everybody," Laden said, "I can't categorize them because they're from all walks of life."
"Dextram won't do what these do," Laden said. "People wouldn't be coming in to buy my stuff, they'd be going to the local AAF to buy Dextram."
Laden said K.C. Distributors occasionally advertised in area newspapers, but said most of his advertising came from "word of mouth."
According to Laden, some of his "mental alert pills" may be distributed in the Lawrence area. Laden said one Lawrence nurse reported that she had large in large quantities for resale in Lawrence.
Prof seeks ideal education
The lights are off. The shades are pulled. Forty students with their eyes closed sit on tables that are pushed against the walls. A teacher is sitting on one of them, taking deep breaths and counting to 10, and cries.
These students are studying geography. They will be challenged in HUR professions by an attempt by Robert J. Kruse's geography, to use his ideal teaching method. He wants to teach students to want to do it.
This perfect environment, which would be a constantly changing set of formal and informal learning environments, "would have all the advantages of the free and open environment," Nunley said. "It would make it possible for students to learn what they want to learn."
"We could learn more if we had a better infrastructure. Number one, the ideal environment is a combination of the University of Kansas, a number of off-campus Lawrence environments, and a few universities in the region."
Nunley also stressed the importance of an open-minded faculty who were willing to learn from their students.
ACCORDING TO NUNLEY, the class would not always sit in the classroom but would venture to Potter's Lake, the Natural History Museum, South Park, West Campus, the trails along the river and any place else where the students wanted to
"I got my Ph.D. 23 years ago," he said.
"Back then I didn't know most of what I teach now."
"An awake human is an unstoppable entity." he said.
"Human beings are happiest when they're learning. It's a delightful kind of happiness which costs one and can help everyone."
THE WHOLE LEARNING environment is based on Nunley's optimistic picture of the human race.
Nunley did his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Huntington, W.Va. He got his Ph.D. in Michigan in Ann Arbor. However, he said, he learned most of what he knows in the hills.
And he's not through learning
THROUGH HIS untraditional teaching style, Nauley is trying to fulfill his own philosophy.
He encourages his students to learn from each other and from every situation. He stresses communication in his classes to help the process.
"I want to have my cake and eat it too," he said. "I want all people to have access to all things that all people ever dreamed of, so that one suffer from acting their coals too high."
Most of all, as any of his students will tell you, he has shown them that one of his adages “Learning is more contagious than any virus” is – true.
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