Friday, September 16, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Cruising on the Kaw
By TIM PURCELL Entertainment Editor
Editor's note: More than 400 University of Kansas and Kansas State University students tossed aside books and papers in favor of paddles last week at the annual KU-K State canoe race on the River. The event was organized by the Association of University Residence Halls and a like group at KState. This year, one of the KU teams won the 102-mile race.
Cold hot dog sandwiches, sunburn and the mud that still falls from my shoes in chunks are remainders of last weekend, one of the more enjoyable weekends a college student can spend.
My time was taken paddling a canoe down the Kaw River in an annual grudge match between KU and K-State students. The race is reasonably well planned by the Association of University Residence Halls. The organization of our team is another story.
Two days before the race, a group made up primarily of dormies and former dormies created an independent committee that named ourselves the Paddle Pushers.
For the past two years, many of us had canned in the race. This year, despite our typical lack of organization, we determined to be in the race again.
It's not that we have an allegiance to the residence halls; we have an allegiance to the river.
AS FAR AS OUR team was concerned, the race actually started Friday night in Aggieville, the Manhattan bar. We had two races because we thought we would have an edge on those teams that participated.
We didn't.
So this year beer was the staple of our training table. It did not help us win, but it certainly eased the pain of losing.
For the past two years our dismally sober team dragged itself to the finish line so late that only stray dogs were still there.
We were in 18th position at the starting line. The desperate floundering that followed the startng gunshot scared the hangover out of me. On my left, a canoe was rammed broadside and swamped. On my right, canoes traveled in threatening circles.
After the initial bottleneck was left behind, rumors of canoe placement floated up and down the Kaw. We held everything from fourth to 20th place, according to those young men from southwest Kentucky who knew they were in until they arrived at the midpoint campsite—St. Mary's. We were in 16th.
The problem of race wasn't the paddling but the checkpoints, places where a fresh team would get in the canoe and the other team was in.
One of our checkpoints was a cliff, Janice, who was to paddle the next leg, tried to grab a branch, missed, shaken her arm on it, slid down, mud bank hit in the oil spout, lost a money in the water and her money in the mud.
money in the mud.
Our team's canoe floated past this checkpoint.
Problems at checkpoints weren't just with canoers but also farmers. The 'damn fool kids' crossed their fences with "No trespassing" signs, trampled crops, camped and built fires in their fields, made the livestock nervous and the farmers irate.
The few farmers who took the antics of 400 college students in stride had either brought in their crops earlier, knew from past experience what to expect or were too amazed to say anything.
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THERE COULD be no checkpoints if there were no maps. The maps provided by AURH were cryptic. They showed only the bare essentials. The oily landmasses on either side of the country roads were unnamed.
If a checkpoint was missed, and those driving cars had to improvise, the outcome usually was disastrous. The map had curves where the road went straight, and, when the road was slightly wet, readers were obliterated.
To relay messages from river to shore and between cars, the more sophisticated KBs and K-State teams used CBS and walkie-talkies.
We had Linda.
Her credentials were impressive. Her most recent accolade was being the hands-down winner of a yelling contest in a Kansas City bar. His voice could be heard a mute up and down, riverer, even with the mind in her face.
As a backup unit to Linda we had
whistles. 'They were supposed to be the Paddle Pushers' unique signal. They worked great—when we used them. Most of the time on the first day we forgot to bring the whistles to the river.
THE SECOND Day of the race food supplies and morale were low. The day before the complaint was, "He's canned twice so far, and I haven't gone yet. That's not fair." On Sunday it was, "I've canned twice so far, and he hasn't gone yet. That's not fair."
There were times when no matter how hard and skillful we thought we were paddling, we could never catch up to the lilydippers a half mile downstream who floated all over the place.
At other times we would get a fresh, rested team who could pass canoes with ease and whose arms didn't turn to rubber bands after a few minutes.
On the last leg all three persons in the canoe played stermsman. Paddles sloshed in every direction. A canoe came to a complete standstill.
complex. We were in 13th position at the finish line.I guess that means that next year we'll be luckier.
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Arts & Leisure
Karate is hai art
By SHERRY WASSERSTEIN and LAURIE WOLKEY
Staff Writers
People have been fooled.
According to Tony Liu, Prairie Village senior and instructor of karate at Oriental Martial Arts, Inc., Lawrence, many people have been kicked in the face more than "yellling, jumping up and down and wearing funny suits."
"There's a strange misconception about karate because of the tournaments and Bruce Lee movies." Liu is not sure if it really means, like those things suggest, karate is really defensive."
Karate is instead an art that offers training in defense and oriental weapons. The study of karate can build self-confidence and physical conditioning and, according to Liu, can be a worthwhile study break for students.
Liu said that most people wanted to learn karate to develop self-defense techniques and increase in self-resistance through mastery of the sport's coordination and practical skills.
"IVE HAD A LOT of students who were insecure come in," he said. "They learn a few techniques from the ones on and off, but they don't become O.J. Simpson, they can become more confident."
Liu, who opened the academy, at 835% Massachusetts St. last September, offers kappa to women and children. Two types of programs are taught—the "Women's Self-Defense" and "Women's Self-Defense."
the women's self-defense course has techniques such as hand blows, jude and kicks.
In the art aspect course, beginning students spend a month learning four strokes and two kickes. After completing this course, students learn 28 beating techniques, kickes, strikes and kickes. Formalities and routines also are presented.
Liu said that visitors were welcome during classes at the academy — from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
ON CAMPUS, students may learn Korean karate at the Tae Kwon club, taught by Choon
Lee, a sixth degree black belt and master of the art. He has been involved in Tae Kwon Do for more than 35 years.
Joel Colbert, Lawrence graduate student and one of Lee's assistants, said Lee had taught beginning and advanced students at KKU. He now Do, a Korean sport, is essentially the same as the better known art of Japanese karate.
Colbert explained a particular style of the sport, Hapkido, which is taught in connection with Tae Kwon Do.
"Hapkido is a very practical, street-oriented self-defense," he said, "that allows even a very small person to defend himself against someone much larger."
the other assistants are Kurt Godden, Clear Lake, Iowa, graduate student, and Frank Hoffer, 1500 Kentucky St., an elementary school teacher to the assistant coach of bolt篮 Godden a second-degree and Hoffman and Colbert first-degrees.
Ite Tae Kwon Do club meets for 90 minutes at 6 p.m. each Monday and Wednesday in the Gymnasium, Room 173.
KU's racquetball craze crowds courts, classes
By JANICE EARLY and LORI BERGMANN Staff Workers
The game is racquetball, a fast-paced sport that has been gaining popularity since its invention in the 1960s. It plays off five million people play it, compared with an estimated total of 50,000 in 1970.
easy to play.
"It's a game that even beginners can play from the start," he said recently.
Dean Gorman, state singles champion for the United States Racquetball Association and the International Racquetball Association, says racquetball is easy to play.
GORMAN, WHO teaches basic raucquetball for the University of Kansas health, physical education, and community engagement, said anyone could play after 10 minutes of instruction.
In racquetball, the ball must be returned to the front wall before it bounces twice. Only the server can win points and in a match a player must win two games out of three. The games go to 21 points. If a game is necessary, it goes to 11.
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Racquetball doesn't take skill, Gorman said, but requires endurance and strategy.
"Itakes accuracy, speed and quickness, not power or strength," Gorman, Libertyville, Ill., graduate students.
Because strength is not necessary, Gorman said, and great men a good guard of acrobatball players are women.
RACQUETBALL IS often associated with violence and aggression because of its speed and action, but Kristen Zane, Overland Park senior, says the sport is not violent.
With six bucks, a block of ice and a steep hill, any day is sledding weather.
pounds. You feel sickly while you're playing, even dizzy, if you're in not shape."
An unusual sport, ice-blocking may be enjoyed by anyone who sits on a towel over a rock of ice and slides down a wall.
ice-blocking may have been
ice-blocking by Gamma Phi Beta
sorority and Alpha Kappa
Lambda fraternity at a get-
People who have played other racket sports, such as handball and tennis, sometimes switch to racquetball. Tom Marshall, Shawnee Mission senior, was a handball player before he took up racquetball recently.
ZANE AND GORMAN agree that raccquetball is good exercise. German says it's a thinking game, too.
together last year at Potter Lake.
"You have to think to play well." he said.
Ice blocking can cool summer
Gorman said the availability of跑球裁判 courts was the only thing that could limit a player, especially in Lawrence. Robinson Gymnasium has only three courts, which are available to the KU faculty, staff and students at no charge.
"It is scarier than a slid because you don't have any way of escaping on a block of ice," Bobbie Briley, Chanute senior, said. "It 'kind of dangerous, too--likely if the hill is very steep."
Lawrence Ice Co., 616 Vermont St., offers a 2-by-4-foot, 300 pound block of ice for $8.
Courts must be reserved in person at the cage of the men's locker room in Robinson. At 7:30 Monday morning, courts will be reserved for two one-hour periods for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday mornings, court times may be reserved for Sunday and Monday. The courts close daily at 10:30 p.m.
"It's surprising how long the ice lasts," she said. "But don't to save it in a freezer or away it—it will get pretty gross."
Sharon Conner, former social chairman for Gamma Phi Beta, said that the ice block would last for a long time.
"You can get going really fast and if you hit a bump, you go flying!" He says. "I hate it, hate it, hate it a chucklebuckle, it will stop and the person will go on."
Conner said the sport was more fun with a large group because they don't form a circle with their blocks of ice and slide down together.
THEATER
AT THE LAWRENCE ART CENTRE, Ninth and Vermont streets: The Seem-to-Be Players perform "The Giving" in the "The Amazing of Nyrm the Sprite, Part 40" at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. "Mime, Magic and Babar" an afternoon of juggling on Sunday, begin at 2 p.m. Sunday.
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Weekend Highlights
important to avoid bumps and chuckholes.
NIGHTCLUBS
HOUSE, 644 Massachusetts St.
Jolie jockey with Jackson
Jolie night. Jon
Paul with Jaison in the 2th
Spin batson on tomorrow
tomorrow night.
Bruce and Shannon from 10 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
Jackson at Raspberry and the Hightoppears
At J. WATSON'S, Ninth and Iowa streets; Harvest, 9 to 12:15 tonight and tomorrow night.
At the OFF- THE WALL-HALL,
37 New Hills Mansion St. Country
Heat tonight and tomorrow night.
On Saturday morning or
Monday night. The River City
Jazz Band Tuesday Night. The
Kansas Folk Center Wednesday
night. Night Jam Session—no
song. Day Jam Session—no
allowed—Wednesday night.
Tuesday through Thursday on the main stage.
A! PAU GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE, 126 Massachusetts宫 Ton the Tom Montgomery Quartet tonight. Claude Williams and John B. Lepine Gang night night. A jam session Wednesday night.
The Midwest midterm premier of
the annual "FANATICS FOR
GOD" and "PRECACIONS
AGAINST FANATICS" at 3:30 p.m.
today and 9:30 p.m. today.
FILMS
PIT AND THE PENDULUM" at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
and formerly Edgar Allen Poe's "THE HOUSE OF USHER" and "THE
7:30 p.m. Monday.
"I WAS BORN, BUT . . ." at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
All films are shown in Wood-riff Auditorium of the Kansas Union unless otherwise noted.
EXHIBITS
At the ELIZABATE M. WATKINS COMMUNITY MUSEUM, 1047 Massachusetts St.: "Architecture of the Great American Desert" prepared by the University prepared by the KU School of Architecture.
AT THE GALLERY in the Marketplace, 747 New Hampshire St: "Everyday Clay" by Jay Stiles, paintings by Kathy Chuck
"LOS OLVIDADOS" ("The Young and the Damned") and "EL" ("This Strange Passion") at 7 a.m. p. thursday.
AT the VALLEY WEST GAL-
LIERIES, 25th and Iowa streets
The Kansas Travelling Textile Exhib.
exhibit.
At the LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Seventh and Vermont streets; Textiles by Barbara M. Koehler; Inkpot by Julie Hodges Peterson in the gallery; pottery by Jay Sies in the gallery; sculpture by Fermer Keefer in the auditorium.
At the 7E7 GALLERY, 7 E. Seven Stn. William Nettleiss sculpture, "Large Series #1" and "Dreamspace Series - Unit II."
AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in Dyche Hall "Ever-changing Fashion," "Basketk Techniques," "Basketk Techniques," "Tread on Me" and live Kansas snakes and fishes.
At the SISTER KETTLE CAFE,
1347 Massachusetts St. Photographs of Kansas by Lawrence Morgan.
At the LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER, Ninth and Vermont streets: The Kaw Valley Weauses' Guild.
The phosphorous dot
Well, it's that time of year again. For the past two weeks, each television network has been revealing its new fall line-up. Although we have been seeing the new shows for only a couple of weeks, the airways have been flooded for some time with an annual schedule of promotions for each series. To listen to the networks' promotion offices, this is going to be the greatest television occasion in the history of American broadcasting to date. The tube is going to be a corrupcia of delights . . . sex, action, sex, intrigue, sex, comedy, sex- and just a bit of simulated violence.
Actually, don't expect much from the new show this year. It looks as if the nets entered this season without a game plan. Only two trends seem apparent.
THE BIGGEST change this season is a movement away from violence that has dominated past schedules. This is a result of pressure from advertisers and groups like the National PTA—and as well within the networks that the popularity of the detective and cop shows is on the decline. There is not one new action crime drama on the schedules this fall.
But "Charlie's Angels" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" have made their marks. There will be more sex appearances in the adult before. Even the child-adult will be back with "The Love Boat."
organized in the LOVE BOW.
So much for generalization! It's time for "Gad Predicts." Spacecrafts prevent an hour-by-hour ambulation by the evening schedules. So I'll give guests a crystal ball guesses on the major successes of the new season and the candidates for "most likely to be gonged."
Only three shows seem to stand out as possible bid winners:
"THE BETTY WHITE SHOW," CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. With the voluntary retirement of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," several stars of that series are off on their own this year. Georgia supports Betty White's entry into aetime race. The series has a good position in the schedule, and the popularity of Betty White's offhanded attitude in style should insure good ratings. That is the shape that the audience might get tired of her humor after a few months . . . too much of a good thing.
is another survivor of "The Mary Tyrer Moore Show." After being fired from the TV station, Lou is now the mentor for a Los Angeles newspaper. The competition will be tough in the time slot (opposite "Family" and "Police Woman") but with its comedy-drama appeals, the series should be safe. CBG might move the series in mid-season to help it along.
"LOU GRANT," CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. Ed Asner
"SOAP," ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 or 9:30 p.m. I don't think this series will become one of the great hits of the '70s. But the light treatment of adult themes (adultery, impotence, etc.) and the heavy publicity the series has received will get higher ratings. It will pull观众 100 times but might have 100 opposite "Lou Grant." The situations are showing it at the later slot because of the maturity of the material. Yes, it is an improved version of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
gonged 'bifонам'
*"MULLEN'S STEW."* NBC, Tuesday, 8 p.m.
Seven adults and two parents try to bridge the generation gap. An overworked situation like this can't against "MASH."
Here is my list for the "most likely to be gonged" honors:
can't go against "MISSY:
THE FITZATTRICKS," CBS, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Four kids, two parents and dog try to bridge the generation gap.
"THE OREGON TRAIL," NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. This watered-down version of "Wagon Train" will be attacked each week by "Charlie's Angels."
A long list of specialists and novels made into mini-series will probably save the season.
... "MSC," NBC, Thursday, 7 p.m. These chips will barely get out of the starting block. A police show without bad guys won't have a chance against "The Waltons" and "Welcome Back."
Dale A. Gadd is an associate professor of radio,
television and film.
TRIVIA CORNER — The answer to last week's question is Jackie Gleason. Because I'm having trouble recent topics, here's another one for old timers. Who was of interest to Dillon before James Areas? This star turned the audience into the first episode of "Gunsmoke."
Paul Moore, supervisor of the men's locker room, suggested that players come early to reserve a court.
"AFTER 9 A.M., you're wasting your time," he said.
In colder weather, Moore said, he usually limits the sign-ups to one time for each person and more people want to play then.
"It's not unusual for 50 people to be lined up waiting for the sign-up sheet when I get here," he said.
German turned away at least 100 students for each of the two sections of his racquetball class. He said the classes were limited to 12 students each because only the three Robinson courts were available.
In the planned Robinson addition, 10 new courts will be built. Last year 15,000 new buildings were built in the United States.
The Lawrence Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., has one court that can be reserved up to a week in advance by any Lawrence resident. Starting next week the building will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The cost of rackettile rackets in Lawrence ranges from $7 to $30.95. A can of 1.67 costs from $1.07 to about $3.
The object of racquetball is to maneuver the opponent into a position where he can not return and then force him from one side of the court to the other so that he must chase after it. In striving for this objective, a player may easily bump into his opponent, dive into his opponents' walls against walls and finally collapse the floor—exhausted.
It's all part of the game.