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The University Daily KANSAN
November 28,1983 Page 6
Skiing grows as local sport
By Staff and Wire Reports
When the first real snow falls in Lawrence, students will take to the hills — with sleds, trays, inner tubes or huge plastic garbage bags — anything that slides.
But some will shim those toys for more sophisticated snow-sport equipment with which to glide over the snow - cross-country skis.
Cross-country skiing is one of the fastest growing winter sports in the country, and experts have advice for this year's beginners to help them stay on top of the snow.
In Lawrence, cross-country ski lessons are not available, Chuck Adams, an employee of Sunflower Surplus, said recently. The store offers equipment for a day of sking on the plains.
Cross-country skiing is easy, say most of the experts, but it demands a little instruction to make it rewarding to the novice. There's no worse way, say ski instructors, than watching a potential skier give up in the snow and struggling in vain to get up.
Going with a friend who knows how to ski is the best bet for beginners in Lawrence, but even that isn't necessary, said Adams, Towka senior.
"You can learn on your own," he said. "There are plenty of skiers in Lawrence, and if you just went out, you could learn a lot by watching other people ski."
Likely spots to find skiers are near Potter's Lake, and at parks and golf courses around
town, Adams said. Some also ski cross-
count at Mount Bleu.
The basic stride can be learned in an afternoon, but maneuvering up and down hills makes it even more difficult.
Adams said that he and others in the store could show customers a few of the techniques for turning and stopping on hills, but that "that's kind of like reading a book."
"You can't really show them how to climb hills without being on the snow."
Hills can be dangerous to the uninstructed
sailer, especially if the woods are thick at the
outer edge.
"If you didn't know what you were doing and you got to the top of a hill, you could hurt yourself."
Cross-country skiers, however, frequently tackle steep slopes in the same way alpine skiers do.
It may not be advisable for a beginner, but "that depends on your philosophy," said Aaron
He did, however, suggest that skiers learn to ski faster "a method for reducing speed on the slopes."
Being 'in good shape also helps, but virtually anyone who can walk ski can, ski said.
"The better shape you in, the more fun it will be." he said. "It's like swimming. It can keep you from drowning."
Cross-country skis and poles are longer than alpine ski equipment, and the boots are attached to the skis at the toes but are free at the heel, unless down-kill ski boards. The arms are used more vigorously in cross-country skiing, to help with the rhythm of the stride.
"It works all the muscle groups," Adams said.
Thus, it can be tiring. Most Lawrence skiers go out for a couple of hours at a time.
Beginning skipper often dress too warmly,
said Tom Kellis a cross-country ski instructor to
me.
"They look outside and see it's only 10 degrees and they bundle up with all sorts of sweaters and jackets," Kelly said. "But they're wearing a half-kilometer and you are sweating to death."
The best approach is to dress in layers, he said. A turtleneck or light shirt, a wool sweater and a windbreaker provide the most flexibility.
Adams advised bringing a warm coat to wear after skiing, to keep off the chill from the sun.
Wool knickers or baggy pants are good choices because they allow free movement and the wool stays warm when wet, Adams said. Wool socks are also advised, and cotton socks, which get and stay wet, should be avoided.
Skis, boots and poles can be rented from Sunflower Surplus for $8.50 a day. Adams recommended also bringing the following items in a backpack:
- bale for binding the boots
- an extra ski tip
- extra mittens, hat and coat
- water, to avoid dehydrating
Serious skiers who plan to be out all day should also bring food, a first-aid kit and a fish bag.
Sousa's 'spitting image' to lead Wind Ensemble
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Renorter
The spirit of John Philip Sousa will come to life tomorrow when the band leader's impersonator leads the KU Wind Ensemble in a concert of patriotic marches.
Staff Reporter
James Saired, a music company owner from Tulsa, Okla., has earned national fame as an impersonator and "spitting image" of Sousa, who died in 1932.
For several years, Saied has toured the country, conducting university bands while dressed in an authentic Sousa costume and wearing a range of the composer who was known around the world.
Said will lead the Wind Ensemble as part of a fall concert shared with the University Band. The concert will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Crafton-Pever Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Sousa was born in Washington, D.C., in 1854. He was teaching music by age 15 and conducting two years later. He led the U.S. Marine Corps from 1890 until he formed his own group in 1892.
THE TWO BANDS will perform separately
THE Wind Ensemble's share of the concert is
these two.
He had achieved wide recognition as the greatest band leader in the world, and received the most prestigious military awards granted by England, France and Belgium before his death.
Sousa's impersonator, a native of Ada, Okla,
was a high school band director in Oklahoma for
several years before he started a music
company in Tulsa.
A large color portrait of Sousa hangs on the wall of his stair, and telephone calls hear Sousa's footsteps.
For the concert tomorrow, the Wind Ensemble will be reduced from 60 to 40 musicians to perform.
SAIED WILL CONDUCT THE Wend Esemble in Sousa's "Semper Fidderi March," Saint Saens" "March Militaire Francee" and Herbert L, Clarkes" Bride of the Waves."
After leading the audience through a singalong, Saied will close the performance with the famous Sousa march, "Stars and Stripes Forever."
The University Band will perform before the Sousa portion of the concert. James Barnes, assistant to the director of bands at KU, will conduct the 90-piece band. Because admission to the University Band is open, it comprises an unusual variety of performers.
"We've got some 60-year olds, some graduate students, a virtual 'Wha' who as far as majors is concerned."
The director said the group comprised people who were good musicians in high school but who had little musical background.
"AFTER A WHILE, they began to realize that there was something missing from their lives, and they needed it back," he said. "This is an error, the one that doesn't ever get the attention it deserves."
The University Band will perform "Brass Allame" by John Cacavas, "Concert Variations" by KU alumnas Claude T. Smith, Choral Prelude, Es ist ein Ros' Variations, Es ist ein B & B by Johannes Brahm, arranged by Barnes, and "The Crowst March" by Henry Fillmore.
The University Band has earned its share of bowls. Barnes said, despite its varied membership.
Barnes sent a recording made by the University Band to the office of the Kansas Music Educators Association, which will make a concert and give a presentation of the music played on college campuses.
KU artists to show handmade work at first SUA Arts and Crafts Bazaar
"This is a great honor, because this puts the university Band in the same league as some of our local bands."
Staff Reporter
By ANA DEL CORRAL
The University of Kansas will open its first Arts and Crafts Bazaar tomorrow, and a group of students with Student Union Activities is set to meet the fair a regular, yearly feature on campus.
"There are many people on campus who have a lot of talent. I am really excited about it," Liz Krechman, Winnema, Ill., senior and chair, the UGA Arts and Crafts Committee, said recently.
The bazaar will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
through Dec. 2, in the Kansas Union Gallery.
Because the fair includes most of KU's art departments, it has the potential to reach more students than a single department's fair, Krottemar said.
through Dec. 2, in the Kansas Unior Gallery Participation in the fair is open to students, staff, faculty and members of their immediate families.
The Bazaar exhibits consist entirely of handmade items such as ceramics, woven
goods, baskets, Christmas ornaments and cards photographs, and paintings
The 10 percent commission paid by participants to SUA will go toward paying for advertising and for next year's bazaar. Kretchmer said. The artists are responsible for setting up the displays and handling sales, unless special arrangements are made with SUA
If the Kansas Union Gallery is too small for the exhibits submitted, items will be displayed in the Union's lobby and hallways, said Michelle Kobler, a member of the organizing committee.
"We hope to expand it next year," she said
McKinney said that SUA wanted to have an international arts and crafts fair in conjunction with the international club and minority affairs. But because crafts from other countries are difficult to find, SUA decided to organize the fair with local art
The purpose of the fair is also to provide material, on campus, for early Christmas shopping. Mckinney said Eventually, SUA will continue participation in the fair to all Lawrence residents
SPARE TIME
AUDITIONS FOR "OPGPs, Etc." and "Terra Nova" will be at 7 p.m. today in the Craften-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Call-backs will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in rooms 209 and 341 in Murphy. Call-back lists will be posted by noon in the Murphy Green Room
UNIVERSITY DANCE Company will have open auditions at a tonight in Dance Studio 421 in New York City.
SUA FILMS WILL SHOW "Objective, Burma!" at 7.30 p.m. to tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium at 9.45 p.m.
THE UNIVERSITY BAND and the KU WIND Ensemble will present a fall concert. "A Sousa Concert," with James Barnes and Jemes Said conducting. The performance will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Admission is free.
by SUA Films at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Wooldruff
Auditorium, in the Union. Tickets are $1.50.
STEVEN WISEMAN will present a doctoral recital of chamber music at 8 p.m. Thursday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Admission is free.
THE SPENCER MUSEUM of Art and the Center for East Asian Studies will present Wu Zuoren, artist from the People's Republic of China and visiting professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. The speech will be at tomorrow in the Spencer Museum auditorium.
THE MOVIE "VIDAS SECAS" will be shown
SUA FILMS WILL SHOW "Band of Outsiders" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in wooddraft Auditorium in 4516 East 19th Street, NYC.
Jayhawk Singers show love of music
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN during the filming of "The Day After" in Lawrence will be on display from 10 a.m. to p. t.m. tomorrow through October 5, when it will be part of Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
LAWRENCE
Volunteer members revive group, plan fall concert tomorrow
By the Kansan Staff
Almost every institution has its volunteers.
Hospitals have their candy-stripers, baseball has its bat boys and the University of Kansas has its Javahawk Singers.
The Jahayhwk Singers group is made up of seven KU students who volunteer their talents for local organizations and conventions. The group will present its fall concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The Chuck Berg Band will also be featured.
Kevin Albert, Lawrence senior and assistant director of the Singers, said that the original group, the Singing Jayhawks, had to disband in spring 1981 because of budget cuts in the music industry.
"Later on, I had heard that the K-State Singers were performing at a convention here.
and I thought that was too bad that our rival school was performing for us," he said.
Albert and the group's director, Ray Williams, decided to revive the group, now called the Jahyawk Singers. The original group had worked through the chancellor's office, then through the department of music education, and then through the music department.
Now, the singers are on their own.
Albert said that they received some money from Student Senate and were paid by the groups they perform for, but just enough to cover expenses, which include costumes for period dresses.
He and Williams approached the KU Alumni Association early in the semester to say when they would available and to show photographs from previous performances. Later, the association asked them to play for a reunion of the class of 1958.
The singers have also performed this year for
None of the members of the Jayhawk Singers are music majors. The group has auditions every fall and spring semester and the only requirement is proof of enrollment.
Some members dropped out this semester because they didn't realize how much time was spent on the job.
"We practice for 10 hours per week for no credit and no money," he said. "We are just a group of students who love music and we love to perform."
Because the students want to perform for all types of groups, they use as their motto, "Become a better person."
The Jayhawk Singers will demonstrate their flexibility tomorrow in "A Salute to American Music." The choir will perform songs of every genre from Duke Ellington to Burt Barcharach.
an oil marketer's convention and the Panhellenic Association.
New coloring book is for adults
By PAMELA THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
With a bokstel of crayons and an uninhibited imagination, adults are able to vent their innermost fantasies and frustrations outside of the office and inside the pages of a new coloring book.
The anti-traditional coloring book, called "The Anti-Coloring Book For Adults Only," encourages outside of the pre-drawn boundaries to draw. The artist to draw within the confines of the pattern.
Striker's coloring books allow for individual creativity by providing topics that provoke thoughts and feelings about day-to-day anxieties that can be expressed through drawing.
Susan Striker, the coloring book's author and one of its eight illustrators, said in a telephone interview from New York last week that her book was designed to be therapeutic.
The first of her books, published in 1978, was a campus cult item, according to Stirling.
Anti-Coloring Book For Adults Only" after learning that adults were using the coloring books she had first designed for children six years before.
The subjects include such timely and universal themes as the job, family, role in society, sexual values, the inner self and growing old. Striker was wanted to appeal to a diverse group of adults.
Striker said she decided to write "The
She said adults were embarrassed about coloring in the youngsters' books, which are geared for children between the ages of 8 and 14.
In this book, the captions on the 29 partially illustrated pages raise such provocative themes as the best dream ever dreamed, the most appropriate tattoo for an arm, and the essential items required to live for five years on a deserted island.
Striker, who has taught art therapy for 20 years, said she first got the idea for the children's coloring books after a child she knew would understand his nightmare better by drawing it.
Children need to be able to break artistic rules to express themselves, she said.
tries to make them like little adults so that when they grow up they pick up the feeling of
"We never get a chance to express ourselves. We sew by patterns and pre-drawn outlines because we are so concerned about going outside of the lines," she said.
"Society doesn't like children," she said. "It
As a result of this type of regimented training, adults are often in the same bind as children, she said.
"I was given dittos and paint-by-number sets when I was a child," she said. "Those preplanned kits were big then. People felt they had to have a guide to art."
Natalie Chapman, Striker's editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, the New York-based publishing house which publishers her books, said last week that the adult edition was not X-rated, but had more to do with "psychology, counseling and fun."
"Susan made up the title, which caused a lot of controversy," Chapman said. "The publisher felt 'anti-coloring' had a negative connotation. The company also designed a logo and made it a registered trademark."
BLOOM COUNTY
BY BERKE BREATHED
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