Wednesday, February 6, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Icy campus hills come in handy as tray riders slip, slide away
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
"Runaway!" shrieked a voice in the darkness as an out-of-control cookie sheet slid down the snowy hill behind Hashinger Hall.
Secondes later, "d. Coffee cafeier tray rider shouting, "d. Dr. Death; d. Death!" swished down the slope scattering people below.
The name of the game is traying and all that is needed to play is a cafeteria tray, some snow—preferably well-packed and covered with an ice wedge—and a bill.
This night most of the trayers were from the eighth floor of Eldsworth Hall.
There are several ways to tray, they said. There's single tray, double tray and poly-tray. Call it anything really, because there are no rules as far as they could tell.
Single tray is sliding solo, either sitting down with legs outstretched, or belly first with arms up to the side, swan-dive style.
Double tray is two people wrapping their legs around each other, either face-to-face or pizzyback style.
POLY-TRAY is when three or more
people form a "tray train" by locking legs around the person in front of them. This night the record train run was 15 sliders long.
Some trayers said their mental attitudes kept them warm. Others said it was Lord Calvert or Wild Turkey.
Jim Scanellia, San Francisco freshman, said he only saw snow on an occasional trip to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
"But you never take a tray with you," he said.
Scannella, a hurdler on the KU track team, said traying was a lot easier than hurding.
"I can just hear my coach when he reads this, saying 'Traying, the kid is out traying!'"
AIMAN ALEMAN, Kuwait freshman,
sand the snow that fell this week was the first he'd ever seen.
"It's great!" he said as he dove onto a plastic saucer and disappeared down the slope.
"Most people go down to the hill by Potter Lake," said Russ Thusick, Kansas City, Kan., senior. "But this hill is a lot
longer, and besides, it's closer to the dorms: That means in case of an accident, your I.D. and parent's name are just a few feet away."
He said that students presented their I.D.'s at the cafeteria and checked out the plastic trays.
Suddenly a blue pickup truck coarred down Irving Hill Road, over the curb at the intersection and gawked at the flashing red tail lights as the truck bounced recklessly to the street
"Man, that's weird!" someone said as a rush of conversation began.
As the clock passed 1 a.m., most of the tray riders had succumbed to the cold, but Aleman his hat and sweatsuit caked with snow, was the last one to leave.
they nad a refrigerator lid out here awhile ago, but this beats them all," another traversaid.
"I'd been watching from my dory window for a long time," he said, "and I finally decided that I would just come out and try it.
"They'll never believe it back home."
Plagued by lagging Student Senate attendance, the Student Senate Executive Committee dismissed nine senators at a meeting at the Kansas Union last night.
Efforts to tighten up on attendance enforcement last fall led to 18 dismissals.
"This is the first time we've really tried to police ourselves," said Mark Rafferty, Senate executive secretary.
He said that, in past years, the Senate had operated frequently without a quorum.
Margaret Berlin, student body president, said some attendance guidelines were necessary.
HOWEVER, STUDEX is not cracking down heavily on attendance, Rafferty said. He said that only the worst cases were suspended.
"There is no reason to be a member of Senate if you can't offer a vote," Berlin said. "We've been having a hard time getting necile to come to meetings."
StudEx cuts nine senators for absences
"If we followed attendance policies closely we'd be yanking off Jayhawk Boulevard to get a nuorum." Rafferty said.
David VanPansy, Senate Treasurer,
questioned StedEx motives in dismissing
the senators so close to next week's Senate
elections.
"We're down to the last eight days of this Senate. It looks very bad; it looks punitive, VanParys says." "And if this action is being
taken to manufacture a quorum, then everyone is going to figure it out."
In other business, Berlin said the Kansas Memorial Union Board was considering a proposal to photograph students using the Kansas University check cashing service to discourage the writing of bad checks. The board issued $1,000 in bad checks this school year.
ON THE AGENDA of tonight's Senate meeting are:
A resolution to expand Student Legal Services to include in-court representation. Currently, the program is limited to legal advice, education and assistance outside
- A Legal Services' request for $1,140 in additional funds to cover the cost of car-
petting the new Legal Services' office in the Satellite Union. The Legal Services will move from Carruth-O'Leary to the Satellite Union next month.
- A proposal to raise the status of the Minority affairs subcommittee to that of a standing committee.
- a resolution calling for the establishment of a commission on the Kansas Memorial University Union board and an executive committee of the Union Board. This request requires four of the members to be required to the Commission.
- A resolution urging next term's Senate to consider a public forum on South Africa. Two resolutions concerning this issue have been tabled for more than 10 months.
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KU escort service to resume Feb. 18
Campus safety Services, the escort service for the KU campus area, should resume operation Feb. 18, according to Ward, the ward's personnel director.
The service was to have resumed operations Jan. 31. Ward said the delay was caused by difficulties in scheduling volunteers.
"Without a schedule we can't start," she said.
She said response to a call for volunteers had not been tremendous, but that there were enough volunteers to start the service. Persons on volunteering calls the KU Emergency Medical Center.
Ward said that the service had escorted about two people per night last semester, and that she expected the number to increase later this spring.
"We started in the dead of winter," she said. "We walk people home, and right now it's so cold that people don't want to be here. And the demand will pick up as it gets warmer."
"I think interest in the service has picked up. I've had people asking me about it, and KU information has been getting a lot of attention, leading to knowing we are going to start."
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