University Daily Kansan, March 3, 1982 Page 9
Spirit squad protests changes that eliminate tumbling
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Suddenly the cheering squad isn't cheering and the yell leaders' voices
Possible changes in the spirit squirt program for next year do not meet with
"Right now, there will be no dancing and no tumbling." Dave Pennington, spirit squad captain and Liberal leader, said. "They want strictly a cheerling show."
"We ARE CERTAINLY hoping that we can find ways to generate more enthusiasm for our teams," said Phyllis Howlett, assistant athletic director. "We have an awfully quiet crowd."
But members of the spirit squad do not think removing the dancing and gymnastics from their program will improve crowd response.
"A lot of our dances have been traditions," said Lori Schick, Overland Park sophomore. "At one of the games, an alum came down who made up the dance, and was glad to see we were still doing per舞."
Members said there had been dissension regarding the style the squad had been using this year, especially before the athletic department discontinued the pyramid stunts that they considered dangerous.
Team members thought that KU crowds would not like a cheerleading squad that did not have an emphasis on dance and gymnastics.
"THE ONLY reaction will be boos," Pennington said. "I will be surprised if they don't get hooted off the field the first rame."
Tom Johnson, former spirit squirt coordinator, said he thought the KU coach was a great fit.
"That's not the style of the average person at KU." he said.
"They'll clap and they'll cheer and wave the wheat, and they'll get off on
"We've always been known as snob-
bill, but many people on campout don't."
Johnson said that there was a difference between KU and K-State fans. He said K-State fans wore purple T-shirts and purple polyester pants to games, but KU fans never showed much interest in wearing blue to their games, despite encouragement from the athletic department.
Schick said that part of the problem with crowd response could be that the
KU football program did not have an established outstanding reputation.
Howlett said that when people complained about crowd participation, they usually pointed to the team. But University's football team was good, she said.
"THEY SAY, 'get a winning team,'"
"their football team." The football staff has done its job.
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"With a team as good as ours is, they should be knocking themselves over to us."
Because of the changes in next year's team and the lack of a coordinator, Howlett said, tryouts originally scheduled for next week will be postponed until the new coordinator is hired.
She said she received permission today to look for a new part-time coordinator to replace Johnson, who was out of the contract run through the end of June.
Lawrence City officials at the National League of Cities meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, concluded that President Reagan was more willing to negotiate with states and cities than he was last year.
Officials say Reagan listening
Commissioner Tom Gleason attributed Reagan's change in attitude to his difficulty in getting his programs through Congress.
Mayor Marci Francisco said, "I still don't think the President understands that things happen 50 ways in 50 different states."
City officials have been at the conference since Feb. 27. The Lawrence contingent at the conference was: Francisco and Gleason, Commissioners Barkley Clark and Nancy Shipter City Manager Bufford Watson and Assistant City Manager Mike Wilden.
government will take charge of Medicaid, but the states must take over food stamps and Aid to Dependent Children. Francisco
Under Reagan's plan, the federal
Gleason said those programs were affected by cuts to other programs because of economic realities.
"If the federal government tries to cut further into money for day care, the money they think they're going to save, they're going to more than lose in funds going to Aid to Dependent Children, because some parents will not be able to go to work," he said.
The budget cuts in the CETA job-training program could mean that the nation would not have a skilled force when the recession ends, he said.
Up to now, the government has been paying part of the salaries of CETA trainees who work in private industry, he said.
Former '60 activist radical to speak at KU
Bernadine Dohr, social activist and radical of the '60s, will lecture on *Criminology*.
Her first lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union
At 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union, she will talk on the student movements in that 20-year period.
Dohm, former member of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Organization, will speak on revolutionary politics from the '60s to the '80s.
Dohr's appearance is sponsored by the Department of Sociology colloquium series and Latin American Solidarity.
Still politically active, Dohn is now a lawyer for the New York Three, Black Liberation Army militants presently life sentences in new York prisons.
She has served as a national officer in the National Lawyers Guild. She also was a national officer for Students for a Democratic Society, a radical group in the '60s involved in political and economic reform.
Dohrn also served on the executive committee of the Weather Underground. The Weathermen formed in 1969 after a split from SDS. In 1970, the organization went underground and the group was a violent overthrow of the government.
Dohn faced federal charges in 1969 because of her efforts in the anti-war movement. Although those charges were dropped in 1974, she spent most of the '70s hiding from the FBI because of her affiliation with the Weathermen.
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