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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 9, 1969
State's only slope starts fourth year
The only ski slope in the state of Kansas has opened for its fourth season.
Mont Bleu ski slopes, located about 8 miles east of downtown Lawrence, offers skiing opportunities for beginners and experienced skiers.
"The slopes are covered by 3 feet of snow," said Jim Wycoff, Independence senior, and one of the managers of the slopes. "Water to make the snow is pumped from the Wakarusa river to settling ponds," he said.
The water is then combined with compressed air to make snow which is showered on the slopes with a special blowing machine. Wycoff said snow can be made only when the temperature is below freezing and the humidity below 80 per cent.
"The hill is 750 feet long, and the drop is 230 feet," said Wycoff. There are three separate slopes, varying in degree of difficulty.
For beginners, Mont Bleu has a staff of ski instructors headed by Rudy Voldrich, a former Olympic skier.
Wycoff said Sunday is usually the busiest day, although the slope is open every day but Monday and Tuesday.
The slopes open at 10 a.m.
Film showing
"Dona Barbara," a film about the class of the old order and the new, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Dyche Auditorium.
Based on a novel by Venezuelan Romulo Gallegos, the film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
and close at 10 p.m. so that Mont Bleu is one of the few slopes in the nation with skiing under lights.
Wycoff said the cost for the average skier who rents his equipment is $7 per day.
Mont Bleu opened a few weeks before Christmas, and will remain open until the first of March.
There is a ski lodge on the grounds, and Wycoff said it may be rented by students for parties. Besides a lounge, the lodge contains a snack bar, a retail ski shop and an apartment.
Dave Kuhl, co-manager and Dodge City senior, and Wycoff live in the apartment, work at the slopes and take care of the lodge.
Code vote to be in late February
Wycoff said there are races on the slopes usually twice a season, and there will be a winter carnival at the close of this season.
KU students will vote on the newly revised Senate Code in the last two weeks of February if the Code receives approval in the University Senate Friday, said Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and chairman of the All-Student Council (ASC).
ASC members approved the revised version of the Code Tuesday night.
Should the code pass the University Senate, the entire text will be published in the Kansan at the beginning of the next smsemester, approximately preceding the election.
The Code came into being after student demands for a restructuring of the University government to include more students.
Last summer the twelve-man Committee On University Governance prepared the original version presented to the ASC and the University Senate early in the Fall. The code was discussed and amended.
At this point, a joint
conference committee,
consisting of three members of
ASC and the University Senate,
revised the Code trying to work
out the differences in both
versions. The Code was then
resubmitted to the ASC and the University Senate. It is this edition of the Code that the ASC approved Tuesday and that the University Senate will consider Friday.
Rock Chalk skits announced
Living groups have been named for the 1969 Rock Chalk Revue, said Drew Anderson, Plainville senior and producer of the annual satire-variety show.
Groups presenting skits and their ski titles are: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, "All the Way with K.K.K. (Kampus Krusade for Knighthood or Knighty, Knight)," Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Deltaelta
Delta sorority, "All the World Was the Stage" or "The Pogrom's Progress."
Sigma Chi fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority, "I'll Never Never Land" or "Hock, Line and Twinker," and Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, "Two Holes are Better Than One" or "A Stick in Time Save Nine."
Rehearsals will begin in Hoch Auditorium second semester.
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