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University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1985
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Some vacationers to shun sun, sandy beaches
By PEGGY HELSEL
Staff Reporter
For a few weeks out of every year, college students from every corner of the nation gather to offer themselves to the great sun god.
During spring break, they congregate in Sun Belt resorts to relax, down a few beers and make new friends, preferably of the opposite sex.
Hordes of fun-seeking KU students will make the pilgrimage to their favorite sites.
But the traditional resorts hold little charm for some. Instead of dreaming of white sandy beaches thronged with people, they avoid them.
Mike Hart, Paola junior, plans to spend his spring break far from the crush of humanity that invades the popular vacation places. Hart, a geology major, will be heading for the
remote mountains of Canyon Lands, Utah,
for a peaceful week of camping and hiking
with friends.
"IT'S NOT TOURISTY." Hart said of the area just north of the Grand Canyon. "It is amazing." He paused, looking at the landscape.
Hart, a raster rafting enthusiast, spent the last two spring breaks and summers there, and he said he would like to be an Outward Bound instructor someday. Next week, he will get to in a little mountain climbing and to explore some of the many caves in the area.
Vonnie Anderson, Topeka senior, will be traveling even farther to enjoy her weeklong
Anderson works in the German department office, but that's the closest she has been to the land of schnetzil and schnauzers. He has persuaded her parents, brother and sister, to hear. They plan to take in the sights and tour some of the castles of ancient German rulers.
LESLIE GRADY PROBABLY won't visit the queen during her trip to merry old England, but that won't stop her from having a good time.
Grady, Fairway sophomore, will visit her high school chum who's an exchange student in London. She said they wanted to see the city and stay away from the typical tourist attraction.
"We're not going to any churches or museums," she said.
Grady and her friend will then now the English Channel to tour Paris. They'll stay with the parents of the French exchange student for whom Grady's parents are now hosts.
Not everyone will be traveling to foreign lands or just relaxing next week
MICHAEL BIGGINS WILL be using his time to work. Biggins, a graduate student in the Slavic language department, will visit Willamette Valley. Ore..during the break.
degree, will gather linguistic data and visit several Russians in the area.
While Biggins and other student work, Whale Hershman will be cavorting in a trap.
Biggins, who's working on his doctoral
Hershman, Leawood sophomore, received experience as a travel agent from arranging her spring break trip. Hershman planned a Hawaii for herself and about 20 other students.
The trip originally was planned for late October, but waters, but word got around that objects were waiting.
MEMBERS OF THE group will enjoy life as beach bums, Hershman said. They plan to rent a catamaran to do some sailing, tour the island on motor scooters, scuba dive and see Pearl Harbor and volcanoes.
"Everything is so expensive there," she said. "We're going to bring our own food and
Another group of Jayhawks abroad have
the thrill of danger to add to their enjoyment of spring break.
Hillary Michael's, Tulsa, Okla., junior, was apprehensive at first about her proposed trip to Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.
"There's been nine assaults on Americans in Puerta Vallarta in January," she said. "There's a lot of hostility toward Americans down there."
'THEER'S EXTREME POVERTY down there, and here come these American on vacation.'
Michaela said that one of her fellow travelers called the U.S. State Department to ask if she was allowed to stay.
"They said it was safe as long as we stuck to the tourist parts of town and didn't walk on the beach at night," she said.
She said she hoped her parents didn't find out about the risks involved.
"don't want my dad to find out and tell me it can't go," Michael said. "The danger adds up."
SUA travel offers Padre Steamboat during break
By SHELLE LEWIS Staff Reporter
Kathy Case loves her parents. And she wouldn't mind visiting them over spring break. But a free trip to Texas was just too difficult for her to pass up.
Early Saturday morning, Case, Overland Park senior, will be heading to Padre Island, Texas, on her second spring break trip as an SUA student representative. As a student representative, Case receives a free trip to Padre Island.
"My job is to act as a go-between for the students and the travel agency," she said. "If the students have any problems, they call me and I try to help them out."
"In the years I've gone there really haven't been any room damages or problems with the people from KU," she said. "Some schools can get real wild. The people from KU are wild too, but they know how to act."
OCCasionALLY, HOWEVER, some of our students get a little carried away, she said.
Case said being a student representative had been a positive experience despite the fact that he was not a college student.
"One night we came home and thought we were in the wrong condo because the furniture had been mysteriously rearranged," she said.
More than 100 KU students will risk hangovers, sunburns and broken bones as they travel to Padre Island and Steamboat Island for their trip. Students sponsored by Student Union Activities
Michael Fine, program adviser and recreation manager, will be the adviser on
HE SAID SUA tribes were 'a long way
away' and they tended to bed with checkes and
surgease traps.
"I've gotten into a rut," Fine said. "If I don't go anywhere on spring break, I go crazy."
*People are there to have a good time and as long as it's not legal, it's all wrong.*
The complete Padre Island trip, including air fare, seven nights' lodging and accommodation costs $362 he said. For students to provide their own transport, the trip costs $196.
"The travel committee brainstormed and came up with a variety of different trip ideas," he said. "Hawaii would have been great, but expensive."
Gene Wee, program adviser for SUA's eight-member student travel committee.
Wee said, "Some ski packages don't include everything that it is going to take for people to have a good time. Add up the prices you want to save on prices. It's just how you express it."
Julie Hillstrom, Leawood senior and last year's travel committee chairman, went on her first SUA trip to Padre Island in spring 1982.
"Most people cut their expenses by cramming 10 people into one hotel room," said Hillstrom, who will be one of the 60 KU students on the SUA Padre Island trip.
STUDENTS GOING SKIING in Colorado at Steamboat travel by sleeper bus and the complete trin costs $348. he said
"I'd rather pay a little more for a nice condominium with a kitchen and save money by buying our booze in Mexico and cooking our own food," she said.
Beating the spring break blues
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Typically, the ski slopes of Colorado and the sunny beaches of Florida become hotbeds of fun and frivolity for students during spring break.
Meanwhile, many students who remain in Lawrence or return to their hometowns pass the time by twirling their thumbs. A scarcity of excitement leaves them staring out windows or returning to the textbooks they'd rather ignore.
But a lingering winter or a shallow bank account shouldn't stop students from getting away from the stress and strain of the spring semester.
To help remedy the potentially boring days during spring break, here's a list of ideas — some serious, off-the-wall — from us. What do you know what it like to be stuck with nothing to do.
- "I'd just sit and watch TV or make obscene phone calls." — Gina Cristofani, Shawnee junior.
- *“Go to class and pretend a professor is there. Spit throw wads at the professor. Pretend you're Boby Knight and argue with the professor. You'd win every time. And best of all, you will get to leave early.” — Fritz Mninger, Topeka senior.
- "The best thing would be to be outside. I'd take a picnic lunch and go where people are outside, to a park or a lake." — Janet Morgan, Topeka freshman.
- 'String popcorn for next year's Christmas'
  - Ellen Peveril, Des Moines,
  linda junger
- "Get all your old memorabilia from high school and look at it." — Lisa Mufich, Kansas City, Kan. , sohomore.
"I'm going to get my cat spayed." — Cindi Evans-Hanna, Roeland Park sophomore.
- "Buy a week's membership at a health club" — Chris Grennan, Jamestown freshman.
- "Make cookies in the shape of Jawhacks, put the score of the KU-OU game on them and send them to Billy Tubbs" — Scott Lippoldi, Colby junior.
- "I'd just party until I couldn't remember anything. Then I forgot I had nothing to do." — Robin Krug, Wichita junior.
- "Get some conch shells, put them around your ears and pretend you're at the ocean?"
- Thurman Miller, Seattle junior.
- "Take off your clothes and run through campus — as long as the weather's nice. Otherwise it wouldn't be any fun" — Dennis Higherberger, Garnett senior.
- "Dress up like your mom. Or bleach your cat's tail." — Ron Thomas, Kansas City, "On senior."
Caution: Tanning fans could get burned
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Staff Reporter
The temptation of a luscious tan may entice some vacationing students to spend too much time sunbathing during spring break. An overexposed student could return Lawrence with painfully throbbing, burns in skin rather than a beautifully bronzed body.
Sumbathers should be aware of the hazards of too much sunning, a Lawrence dermatologist said recently, and should take proper precautions when exposed to changing into their bikins or swim trunks.
sun by combining protective lotions and clothing with common sense.
Lee R. Bittenbender, the dermatologist, said Lee should protect their skin from the
Good sun screens can be purchased over the counter but their effectiveness varies among brands, Bittenbrender said. People should know what levels of protection are
People are most sensitive to the sun after winter weather disappears, Bittenbender said, because they have stayed indoors and their skin has been covered with heavy clothing.
"THE CHANCE OF burning is much greater now than in July," he said. "Early in the season, when your skin is still light, the pigment-producing cells have not been covered by the sunlight yet. Once that happens, you get protection from your own pigment."
available, he said, and should be aware of the sensitivity of their skin type.
"The problem is most people tend to overestimate their tanning capacity," he said. "There are some folks who genetically have a predisposition to tanning. They need to be much more careful."
The level of protection a sun screen provides is identified with a number $\frac{1}{2}$ its sun protection factor — ranging from one to 15. The sun protection factor represents the ratio of the amount of time a person wearing the lotion can spend safely in the sun to the amount of time it would take an unprotected person to burn.
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For example, a lotion with a sun protection factor of six should screen the sun for six hours if an unprotected person normally would show signs of redness in one hour.