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University Daily Kansan, December 4, 1984
More spirit provided for KU games
Bleacher Creatures lend support unusual style to women's games
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Loneliness is competing in intercollegiate athletics in front of only a few fans.
To enliven the arena, the junior varsity cheerleaders this year have expanded their schedule to include more men's and women's contests. Elaine Brady, supervisor of spirit squads, said yesterday.
And a group known as the Bleacher Creatures has begun a drive for better attendance at the events, the groups' leaders said.
BRADY SAID THAT FOR the first time members of the junior varsity squad would travel to cheer at some away games for the women. The second team. The varsity lead leads cheers at home games of the women's team.
Junior varsity cheerleaders also are cheering at men's junior varsity football and basketball games this year, said LaRee Shellhammer, co-captain of the cheering squad.
Shellhammer, St. Louis junior,
said the squad managed the busier
schedule by splitting up assignments.
That busy schedule includes two-hour practices at least three days a week, a week the other month. Kevin Gielber, Hays Sportsplain.
Shellhammer and Giebler said the squad practiced partner stunts, timeout cheers, dance and tumbling and halftime routines.
"FOR HALFTIME, WE choose music with a good beat that people like to dance to." Shellhammer said.
Brady, who teaches tennis, raquette ball and aerobic dancing, said physical conditioning was essential for cheerleaders.
"Each one had to run the
12-minute mile and pass it," she said, adding that a passing distance is 1.5 miles.
Giebler said conditioning showed up in potentially dangerous stunts such as pyramids, which involve the entire squad.
A new group, the Bleacher Creatures, also plan to support women's sports.
Bill Sheehy, Fort Leavenworth freshman and vice president of the group, said the Bleacher Creatures began as a way of filling a need.
CHUCK KNAPP, AUGUSTA freshman and Bleacher Creatures president, said the Bleacher Creatures began during volleyball season when he and a few friends went to a match.
"We saw the girls' teams not getting as much support as the guys' teams, and we felt bad about that," he said.
The group just picked a player to cheer for because they did not know anyone on the team, he said.
What started half jokingly turned more serious, Knapp said, and more students became Bleacher Creatures with their penchant for attire that identified them as a group.
Masks, probably ski masks, are next for the 69-member group. Knapp said. The group plans to move beyond its core of members at Joseph R. Pearson Hall to other parts of the campus.
"We did toga night, and one night we wore bathrobes," he said.
He said they also planned to learn the cheers used by the junior varsity cheerleaders, although they had a few cheers of their own.
"We have our wave," he said, "but 10 guys standing in a line is not real impressive."
Steven Purcell/KANSAN
Bob Lockwood, volleyball coach, said he was not the only volleyball coach who liked the group's enthusiasm.
Lori Miranda. Lawrence sophomore and junior varsity cheerleader, leads a cheer at a women's basketball game. This year, for the first time, the junior varsity cheerleaders travel to the women's away games.
Students find time away worthwhile
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Harry Crockett, a 22-year-old psychology major, expected to be enrolled this fall at the University of Kansas - paying fees and buying books like other students.
But instead of standing in Strong Hall or waiting in the Kansas Union in September, Crockett found himself Colorado River in an inflatable raft.
Crockett, who plans to enroll in the spring, is one of many college students who "stop out" of school
Stopping out, as opposed to dropping out, is when a student temporarily leaves school to pursue an art or business college education does not provide
An official in the office of institutional research and planning said that of the students who have been enrolled at KU since 1978, each semester about 5 percent of the students who return were stopouts.
Robert Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, which handles the withdrawal of hundreds of students from the University each semester, said he would define a stopout as anyone left school for a definite purpose but planned to return to school.
students take time off to take advantage of unusual opportunities, to work at jobs in their discipline or to travel
Crockett, who has been a commercial guide for the past three summers, said he was offered the chance at the end of the summer to take a private trip with 14 other people through the Grand Canyon for a 20-day adventure.
"In the rafting world, it's one of the best trips you can do. It was worth it to take off school, said Crockett, to be a senior when he returns to KU.
Although the University retains student records, University regulations require a student gone a full semester to reapply for admission.
Turvey talked about one student who took a semester off from school to take a wilderness class. The student had the chance to spend two months canoeing and kayaking in Alaska
One experience proved to be a positive one for the student, Turvey said. The time off from school living in Alaska, allowed him to grow up, learn about himself and prepare to face University life again.
"He thought it was the most important decision of his life, and I suspect it was," Turvey said.
Sara Martin, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said one student withdrew this semester because she had the chance to travel for about nine months in Europe with a performing group.
The student, Martin said, made detailed plans for her return next fall including making arrangements for her housing and financial aid
"I think she went because she was interested in a career in performing arts, and she wanted to see Europe. This was not an opportunity she would be offered twice." Martin said.
Both motivated students and students who are not doing well academically choose to leave school to do something different. Martin said.
"The reason is that they realize that they can become educated in more ways than one." Martin said. Kenny Houston, Kansas City, Kan., junior, left school in the fall 1983 semester to work
During that time, Houston worked at a fitness center, and he was a master of ceremonies and a model.
"Students take the education they receive in the workplace more seriously, the smart ones are the ones that realize that the best thing is a combination of the two that can be best preparation to career." Martin
Houston's motivation to leave school was burn out, he said. A person should always make time for the other things he is interested in, he said.
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