University Daily Kansan, November 1, 1984
ENTERTAINMENT
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November
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The Kansas City Baller is opening its production of "Season of Great Choreographers." Performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday will begin at 8 p.m. A performance will begin at 2 p.m. All four shows will be at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, Mo.
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A watercolor exhibit featuring garden flowers will be on display at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets, through Nov. 24.
The Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets, also is opening an exhibit featuring the work of John Kuhn, Lawrence painter.
Matt "Guitar" Murphy of the "Blues Brothers" will be at the Jazzhaus, 92% Massachusetts St. He will perform again on Saturday night.
Larry "Bud" Melman will appear in "An Evening with Larry 'Bud' Melman," beginning at 8 p.m. at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
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The KU Collegium Musicum will present its fall concert at 2 p.m. in the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Claude Frank, pianist in residence, will conduct a series of master classes for upperclass and graduate piano student. The classes will run from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 to 5 p.m. Sanday and Monica are open to the public for observation.
The Dead Kennedys will be in concert at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. The show starts at 8 p.m.
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The Oread String Trio will give a free concert at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The Collegiate Singers will present a mix of choral music and electronic video art in its concert, which begins at 8 p.m. in the Central Junior High Auditorium, 1400 Massachusetts St.
The Vienna Choir Boys will perform as part of the KU Concert Series. The program will begin at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
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Steve, Bob and Rich will be performing at the Jazzhaus, 9261<sup>a</sup> Massachusetts St.
Max Laotad, Route 3. walks around the barn that he often rents to KU students for parties. He rents it out, he said, because he enjoys young people.
Laptad's is keepin' students down on the farm
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
About two miles outside of Lawrence stands an old, white barn. The neon Jayhawk in the window can be seen from U.S. Highway 24 at night. The sign painted on the side of the barn can be seen from the highway, too, but during the day it reads "Lapad's Storm Barn."
The average passer-by may not even notice the historic site, but to many college students the barn brings back memories of beer-filled, fun-filled nights.
MAX LAPTAD, 72, is the grandson of the man who built the barn in 1844. He and Margaret, his wife of 48 years, started renting out the barn in 1943 so that the young people in town could have parties and hayrides.
And Max grew up there.
The barn sheltered hogs, horses and cows
Originally, the land was granted to the railroad and then sold to Laptad's grandfather. The barn was built with the help of neighbors from as far away as 20 miles, he
until about 1949 when the farm was turned into a dairy.
Grain, spiders and sparrows still occupied the barn when the first KU party was held there 20 years later. Lapad's daughter's boyfriend, a member of the Triangle fraternity, talked him into letting the fraternity have a Halloween party there.
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity had its first party at Laptad's Barn. Joe Fritch, president of the KU chapter, said that their theme was "Sewers of Paris" in memory of the chapter's founders who served in the army during World War II.
After the war was over, they had a party in the sewers of Paris. Then most of them came to the University of Kansas and established Sigma Sigma, said Fritch, Tulsa, Oka., junior.
"We built a maze, and to get to the party you had to get through the maze," he said. The maze represented the Parisian sewers their founding fathers parted in.
The Laptads, however, have seen stranger things happen to their barn Margaret Laptad recalled that the most memorable
transformation took place about 10 years ago.
"THE DELTA CHIS had a Tom Jones party," she said. "They decorated that barn so that you wouldn't have known it when you walked out there."
After a week of work, the barn looked like a lush garden with flowers and plants hanging from the beams, a wishing well with running water, and a little stone statues sitting around the shed. said
"It was very frivolous and flamboyant," she said.
Through the years, the Laptads have changed the barn some, too. They have equipped the barn with all of the party necessities, including a wired stage for bands, two heaters, lighted parking and indoor slumbering for women.
Men still have to rely on the out-of-fourds for their bathroom needs. Max Lataad said.
TWO HEATERS MANAGE to keep the
water unless a northwest wind is
blowing, he said.
"But once you get some people in here, get some antifreeze in them and get them ready for the trip."
As he walked around the barn in his
overalls, he said that he didn't chaperone the parties but he did chaperone his barn.
And when he chaperone the barn, he puts on his fancy "party pants" for the
He got the psycheledic-colored overlays from a neighbor 15 years ago, Margaret Laptad. Not knowing what else to do with them, she quickly start wearing them to the parties, she said.
The Laptops host about 20 KU parties a semester. Fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls are the most frequent users of the barn.
"WE OFFE TEN HAVE a party booked a year in advance," Margaret Laptad said. "At Halloween time we could rent it out a dozen times over."
One night at Laptad's Barn costs $100.
"When we started out it was $40 but we gradually raised it because we had to start hiring help," she said.
The Laptops said they hoped to continue renting the barn as long as they could handle
"We enjoy having the parties because they're nice kids," he said. "We enjoy them — it's just that simple."
MAIN ENROLLMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATE SPRING 1985
(Graduate Students see page 2 of the Timetable)
CAUTIONS
- Enrollment Center opens Nov. 12, before the advising period ends. Don't miss your enrollment time; make an appointment early to see your adviser.
- No Early Add/Drop. Plan ahead! Avoid problems! List a good selection of alternate courses.
KEY DATES
- Enrollment Card Pickup.
Nov. 5-9: See Timetable, page 2
- Advising Period.
Nov. 5-16: Two weeks only!
Nov. 12-16: Co-Advising Pre-professional school students see Timetable, page 2
- Enrollment Center. Nov.12: Apointments start. Dec.5: Appointments end.
- Dean's Stamp.
Nov. 5: First day.
Nov. 16: Last day.
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