CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1984
Page 9
Greeks to steal the show again in Encore
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Only fraternities and sororites will perform in Encore's five acts again this year, despite efforts by the Encore Advisory Board to encourage participation among residence halls and scholarship halls.
Encore', a musical variety show sponsored by the Board of Class Officers, replaced Rock Chalk Revue in 1982. Since that time, no residence or living groups have been chosen to participate in one of the show's five acts.
DURING ROCK CHALK Revue's 33-year history, the show featured only 10 acts from residence and scholarship hall living groups. Only five of the 16 KU residence and scholarship halls took part in these acts, and one of these five, Corbin, has not participated since 1957.
Bruce Jones, program coordinator for Hashinger Hall, said the show's strong Greek tradition seemed to
discourage other living groups from attempting to be in Encore
"No matter what people do, there will always be the perception that it is a Gun Control problem."
Jones said that the Greek domination of Encore was not anyone's fault, but that it was only a part of the age-old tradition in residence halls and Greek houses.
"As long as that exists," he said, "it's going to be difficult to get them to do it."
DAVE WATSON, executive director of the Encore Advisory Board, said the board had tried to bring non-Greek living groups into Encore this year. Watson spoke last fall at an All-Scholarship Hall Council meeting and individually to residence hall representatives to encourage the groups to submit acts, but most appeared uninterested, he said.
"I was very frustrated." he said.
"There's only so much talk you can do."
This year, Gerritude Sellars Pearson and Corbin Hall teamed with Joseph Hammond to produce the new TV series.
No other residence or scholarship halls submitted entries for the show, which will be performed Thursday through Saturday at Hoch Auditorium.
production, but were not selected by independent judges.
RESIDENCE AND scholarship hall representatives said that, in addition to the show's Greek orientation, money, lack of interest and the group's inability to organize discouraged their participation.
Representatives from Stephenson Scholarship Hall attended the first Encore planning meeting, Dewey said, but hall residents showed little interest in devoting the time and money needed to produce an act for Encore.
Although the residents knew that the show's participating groups would divide 40 percent of the proceeds to pay production costs, Dewey said, most did not want to spend so much money before the show.
Other residence and scholarship hall members said that lack of interest, not money, was the real deterrent to submitting scripts for the show.
expressed interest in doing anything this year", said Jones. Hasinger, which has a high percentage of fine arts students, produced 1994 productions of Rock Chalk Revue.
The hall won the best production award both years, but apparently, that honor was not enough to stimulate students to participate this year.
"It was just another one of the posters on the wall that didn't get retrieved."
Jones also attributed the residents' disinterest to a growing concern about grades and studying. Today's students don't seem to have as much time for extracurricular activities as they used to, he said.
Mike Osterbur, residence hall director for Templin Hall, said Templin residents expressed little or no interest in Encore.
Gordon Castle, Lawrence junior and a JRP resident, attributed the failure of the act to be chosen to a lack of organization.
It is difficult for the groups to get organized, he said, because of the high turnover of residents in the halls.
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