Spring Edition, March 20, 1985
Page 9
Data deny increase in spring love
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Staff Reporter
In the spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love.
hightly taught to thoughts of love.
So wrote Alfred, Lord Tennison in the 19th century, but scientific studies have yet to prove that love blooms more readily in the spring.
Sharon Brehm, professor of psychology, said recently that she knew of no collected data reflecting the number of relationships that began during spring.
"I don't know whether it's a myth or a reality," she said. "Personally, I believe it. When the good weather comes and the juices start flowing, people are more active and more people probably get together."
Brehm said people traditionally thought more romances began during the spring. Heightened expectations, however, may contribute to an increase in new romances, in addition to increased social activity in the spring.
Connie Colbert, Seattle senior, said she thought people were more attracted to others during spring because their spirits were higher then. Spring offers more recreational activities for a couple to do on a date, she said, such as bike riding, picnicking and playing tennis.
"The group as a whole becomes a little more restless and wants to do other things besides working and studying," she said. "As far as finding relationships, we're all so jaded at this point, we know better."
She said her closest friends tended to become more eager for a relationship in the spring, but they usually didn't venture away from the group with the sole purpose of starting a romance.
DIANA BARTLETT, Mission junior, said she didn't notice much of an increase in her friends' romantic pursuits in the spring. But the season's newly available social opportunities could be the cause of some people's heightened interests, she said.
"I think people get out a lot more in the spring and summer," she said. "Maybe they think when spring comes, everything will be carefree and there will be more time to start a relationship."
Whimsical, spur-of-the-moment marriages occur mostly in romance movies and pulp novels — not in the real world.
The carefree motivations for starting a romance usually don't culminate with the planning of a wedding.
about the weather," she said. "If they did, we wouldn't have any weddings in January or February in this part of the country. Most people are concerned about getting their guests there."
Anita Henrikson, an employee at Karen's Bridal Shop, 925 Iowa St., said couples had to be practical when planning their wedding dates.
The shop's busiest month is June with a close second Hannskipsson
'MOST PEOPLE DON'T worry
Intramurals kick off; two sports join lineup
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
Soccer balls and hockey pucks will join softballs as signs of spring in KU's intramural program.
This year, recreation services scheduled soccer teams to begin competition March 18 at Schenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Floor hockey begins Monday in the north gym in Robinson Gymnasium
Soccer usually draws about 50 teams and hockey draws about 40. Debbie Fish, assistant director of recreation services, said recently.
Fish said most of the soccer and hockey teams were made up of men, but women had been on some teams in the past. Ten people are on a soccer team, and six people are on the hockey floor at a time.
Three divisions in each sport separate the competition levels. Within each division, students representing residence halls, greek housing and independents compete.
Most of the fraternities will have soccer teams, the sports chairman will have a club, and the board will
JOHN TERRY, THE chairman and Overland Park senior, said that most of the members of the ATO's team had played in high school.
The ATO's won the Hill championship in soccer last year. Terry said the team had played in two soccer tournaments last fall.
Floor hockey had about 20 teams participating in the independent division last year. The teams play six games during the competition.
Three leagues compete in each division.
A trophy league is the most competitive. The winning Greek and independent teams square off at the hilltop to decide the Hill championship.
Recreation A is the second league. This is less competitive, but a tournament still would be held at the end of regular play.
Recreation B is the third league, in which teams play games only within the division.
More students may play soccer or floor hockey because no intramural football or softball was offered this spring. Fish said. Softball schedules were canceled the past years because of large amounts of rain.
Recreation services has planned two softball tournaments for next month.
The first tournament, which will be held April 20 and 21, is for all men's and all women's teams. Nine people are allowed on a team.
The second tournament, scheduled for April 27 and 28, is coeducational. Each team is required to have five women for the competition
Deadline for registration is the Thursday before each game.
Town plans to celebrate Twain's 150th birthday
By United Press International
HANNIBAL, Mo. — The quiet Mississippi River town that gave birth to the fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn hasn't changed all that much since Samuel Clemens was born 150 years ago.
Hannibal is expecting about 500,000 visitors for the 150th birthday celebration of Mark Twain, the pseudonym Clemens wrote under. A series of events have been planned from May to November to commemorate the author who put this small river town on the international map. This year also marks the 100th issue of *S*. publication of Huckleberry Finn.
Twinan was born in nearby Florida, Mo., on Nov. 30, 1835, but it's Hammond where the family moved five times before he became Missouri's most famous author.
In the summer months as many as
250,000 people from all over the world come to Hannibal to relive Mark Twain's carefree boyhood.
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