Thursday, March 12, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section C · Page 3
Advisory board fines, rules keep groups on their toes
Jason Pearce
Special to the Kansan
Drinking a Coke, eating a Snickers or coming late to rehearsals is grounds for the Rock Chalk Revue's advisory board to fine participants up to $200.
The actors have been rehearsing at minimum of eight hours a week all semester. If 90 percent of the group is not present at rehearsal the group receives a $200 fine, said Kyle Evans, revue executive director.
The groups also must follow the rules of not eating, drinking or smoking at the rehearsals. These fines range from $50 to $200.
"We need to be rehearsing when we are there." Evans said.
Evans, Derby senior, said most fines that have been collected this year were for attendance. All fine money is donated to the United Way.
"We don't like fining groups, but we have to make sure the rehearsals take place." Evans said.
Danner Evans, director of the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Gamma Delta skit, "Driving Force Destiny," said they had
been fined several times by the revue advisory board.
"The United Way is going to get a lot of money from Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity this year," she said.
The Wichita sophomore, who is of no relation to Kyle Evans, said most attendance problems stemmed from early morning practices.
"It is harder to run rehearsals if we don't have people there," she said. "We usually have to teach what they missed."
Kyle Evans said that the groups usually realized after one fine that practices were serious and that they had to be there everyday. He said that the individuals, not the group, usually had to pay for breaking one of the rules.
he said if the groups were having a hard time getting participants to attend practice, then he would have to make sure participants got there.
"Rock Chalk Revue is such a fun experience, and being on the Lied Center stage makes people realize the magnitude of the revue." he said.
Unexpected expenses
Revue practices were held for
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one hour Monday through Friday and an hour and a half on Saturdays and Sundays.
the groups had been rehearsing at the Eagles Lodge and in the Ballroom and Frontier Room at the Kansas Union until March 7 when the groups began rehearsing in the Lied Center.
Members of Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi work on dance steps during practice for their show, "Don't Drink the Water", which is set in a jungle. Members of both houses helped choreograph the steps. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
Competition goes beyond performance
It's not all singing and dancing. Rock Chalk Revue goes beyond the performance as participants and non-participants in the revenue complete community service hours in the name of Rock Chalk.
Once more with feeling
By Ana Calderon
Special to the Kansan
Along with awards for outstanding performances are awards for community service.
Along with
To compete for service
awards, participants must turn in a notebook documenting all community service hours completed by their living organization.
Revue coordinators said that all hours were voluntary. Rob Hagman, Pittsburg senior and revue community service co-director, said that the coordinators discouraged living organizations from making the service hours mandatory.
tory:
"There has been a lot of controversy over the idea that community service shouldn't be for competition but just for benefit of the community," Hagman said. "The spirit of competition encourages more to be done, and the fact of the matter is, it gets done."
have to "activity."
"I do think it's great that they are doing the work, because the work does need to be done, but it shouldn't be, 'I'm doing this to win an award.' It should be done to help the community." Heath said
Emily Heath, Center for Community Outreach co-director and Oskaloosa senior, said that many of the participants looked at fulfilling the hours as punishment or a "have-to" activity.
Hagman said the awards were given based on average hours donated per person, per living organization.
"The community service competition is very competitive, because that's a part where the whole chapter can get involved," said Jennifer Nieva, Pi Beta Phi cast member and Shawnee senior. "The show is the cast. The community service is everyone."
The revue includes paired and non-paired competitions. For the paired competition, one notebook is turned in for both organizations.
"It gives everyone the chance to get involved, not just those chosen to perform," said A.J. Schauder, revenue executive producer and Green Bay, Wis., senior.
The only guideline to earn service points is that the activity not be done for school credit or paid work. The service activities include donating 10 items of clothing, cleaning up local parks or volunteering at the United Way Blood Drive.
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