The weekend's weather
Tomorrow: Hazy sunshine.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 3505
TOPERA, KS 66601-3505
ansan
Sunday: Periods of clouds and sunshine.
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Weekend Edition
Friday
February 13, 1998
Section:
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Vol. 108 • No. 100
Saturday
& Sunday
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wandering the Web
■ www.lovingyou.com/index.html
All you ever needed to know about love is included on this site. "Ways to Say I Love You" and "Romantic Ideas" are just two of the sections. You also can participate in an interactive love story where you determine what happens next.
www.vourvalentines.com
www.yourvalentines.com
This Scottish site is full of Valentine's Day facts. They have "20 Facts You Didn't Know About Valentine's Day" and a quiz to determine if you're a dream date. And we all know that if it's not Scottish, it's crap
www.discovery.com/area/history/courtship/courtship1.html
Discovery Online never disappears. "Cars, Sex, and the Birth of the Date" is the title of this site. Discovery explores dating history and the modern rules for dating that swear that you can get to first base a lot faster in a car. Are you gassed up?
■ www.cnn.com/events
/valentine/index.html
"Download me, girl!" will greet your ears as you pull up CNN's site devoted to love. Sports anchor Bob Lorenz's voice can be downloaded to say all kinds of flthy, techno, love phrases.
Concert Calendar
Tonight:
Bambino's: Melvin Litton;
no cover
The Bottleneck: Mango Jam,
Doo Daddy Jemson; $5/$6
(USPS 650-640)
Free State Brewery: Free State Jazz Quartet; no cover
- Granada Revolution; $4/$6
- Joycehaw Sharing Ticket $3
Jazzhaus: Shaking Tree; $3
■ Replay Lounge: The Hefners, The Breakups; $2
Tomorrow:
Bambino's: Mike Roberts; no cover
- The Bottleneck: The Band
  That Saved the World, Sugaradds; $4/$5
Granada: Ultragroove Dance
Party $4/$6
■ Jazzhaus: Caribe; $5
Sunday:
- **Bottleneck:** The Swing Set; $2
- **Granada:** Top City Showdown
- **Replay Lounge:** Eugene Chadbourne, Todd Newman; $2
Index
News .2A
Features .8A
Movies .7A
Valentine personals .8B
Game times .2B
Horoscopes .2B
Classifieds .6-7B
Olympic coverage .6B
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The Natural History Museum's "Survival of the Sexiest" will try to entice a new audience of young adults and KU students to the museum with aphrodisiacs, music and everything you ever wanted to know about ...
Animal Attraction
By Angela Johnson and Seth Jones
Special to the Kansan
If candy and flowers don't tickle your Valentine's fancy, maybe frog sex, natural aphrodiasis and other topics the Natural History Museum has planned will.
The museum will sponsor a Survival of the Sexiest program and dance on Valentine's Day. Guests will be treated to fancy desserts and a program about the sexual behavior of animals. Swing 39, a Lawrence retro-hip combo, will provide music for the dance.
"We're trying to attract an audience we've never attracted before — KU students and young adults," said Jama Kolosick, education specialist. "With Survival of the Sexiest, we have a subject we think can bring them in."
The program, the first of this kind for the museum, focuses on animal courting behavior, animal anatomy, natural aphrodisiacs, phermones and anything else you wanted to know about animal romance but were afraid to ask.
Anne Maglia, Norwood, Mass., graduate student and event volunteer, will pro
vide the frogs.
"They're actually pets of mine," Maglia said. "I usually keep them separated, but when they mate, they do this elaborate dance where they swim to the top of the water, then dive down again. It's really very neat."
Neat enough to stimulate Valentine's Day guests?
Alex Fraser, Lawrence graduate student and event volunteer, sale, that no scientific proof existed for aphrodisiacs, and that their effects might be all in our minds.
"Aphrodisiacs are supposed to increase sexual desire and ability." Fraser said. "People's responses to certain things are conditioned, and it makes them feel sexier."
Fraser said that phallic symbolism was associated with aphrodisiacs.
"If it looks like a sexual organ, it will have sexual properties," she said. "In more ancient cultures it was believed to give an energy boost for more sexual power."
Aphrodisiacs are accepted more in Asian and Indian cultures than in Western society, Fraser said.
"Other cultures are more open than Western cultures," she said. "Asians and Indians
use herbal methods over conventional methods, unlike Westerners. It's mainly because of cultural and religious differences in societies."
Before things come to a close, Swing 39 will play vintage music from the 1930s and 1940s. Couples will have the chance to swing dance the rest of the night away.
The event costs $15 a person and proceeds will benefit the museum. It is scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. and run until midnight.
"It'll be a fun, relatively low-stress kind of thing," said Bill Cook, Chicago graduate student and event volunteer. "It's interesting to see that the romantic things we do exists in a certain way for different animals. For instance, if you've ever taken flowers to your date, you'd be amazed at how many animals do something along the same lines."
Kolosick said that sex was the center of the world for animals.
"Ever wonder why that turtle is smashed on the highway?" Kolosick said. "He was trying to cross the road to find a girlfriend.
"In relationships, we have to discuss sex," she said. "No one will go to this program and not go home and talk about sex."
With wine or without, sexy show must go on
By Angela Johnson Special to the Kansan
Plans had to be altered for the Natural History Museum's Survival of the Sexiest program after Provost David Shulenburger turned down a request to serve alcohol at the Valentine's Day event.
Jama Kolosick, education specialist,
said the wine request was denied because
the audience for the event was the general public and not a private party.
"On state property there are a number of restrictions," Koloski said. "We're not allowed to serve alcohol at a public event, but it's such an ambiguous policy. We thought by selling tickets in advance, we'd be building a guest list."
The policy also prevents advertising to a general public. Bradley Kemp, assistant director for public affairs, said the event was only advertised to faculty and staff.
"We cannot advertise or promote an event to the general public where alcohol will be served," Kemp said. "We were led to believe that we could advertise to faculty and staff because they are not general public."
The policy contains a form called the University of Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Request, which must be filled out before alcohol is served at any event, Kemp said. It goes through the director of the Kansas Union, the provost's office and finally Chancellor Robert Hemenway's office before it is approved.
The original plan included not only wine, but also a gourmet meal of oysters Rockefeller and stuffed mushrooms. Because the wine was banned, it was decided to exclude the meal and serve only desserts and coffee, Kemp said.
Because the dinner and wine was taken out of the menu, the price for the event dropped from $49 a person to $15 a person.
"We canceled the dinner because our audience would not be interested in the meal without wine," he said.
"Basically, the museum is not to compete with a bar," Kolosick said.
Attempts to reach Shulenburger and Hemenway were unsuccessful.
SURVIVAL OF THE SEXIEST
SURVIVAL OF THE SEXIST
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Date: Tomorrow
Place: Natural History Museum
Cost: $15 per person
Menu: Desserts and coffee
Entertainment: Sexual behavior program,
music by Swing 39
See page 5A
The truth about roses
Roses are red (and many other colors), violets are blue, but what does the color of the rose you give say about you?
Rematch in Manhattan
See page 8A
Raef LaFrentz will join the Jayhawks against K-State this time.The All-American will matchup with much-improved Manny Dies.
See page 1B
Sprucing up Clinton
See page 7A
Gov. Bill Graves' proposed budget asks for $10 million for renovations to Kansas state parks. Clinton Lake could receive $500,000.
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Kansas City, Mo., recruit JaRon Rush criticized Kansas basketball. So Roy Williams said Rush won't play for him.
See page 1B