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The University Daily KANSAN
National photographers will speak at conference
Professional photographers from around the country will speak at an daylong conference starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The 1984 Steve Fritz Photography Conference will include speakers from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Kansas City Times, the Des Moines Register and the Tulsa Tribune. Several of the photographers are KU alumni.
Admission to the conference is $10 for students and $15 for members of the public The fee may be paid in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall. The conference is dedicated to Fritz, a KU alumnus and member of the White House press corps, who died in 1977.
Pharmacy group honors prof
Earlier this year, Stella was named a fellow of the association's Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He and eight others who received the same honor are attending the meeting, which opened on Sunday and concludes tomorrow.
Valentino J. Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, is being honored this week by the American Pharmaceutical Association at the group's national meeting in Philadelphia.
Stella, a Melbourne, Australia, native, received his bachelor's degree in pharmacy in 1968 from Victorian College of Pharmacy, Victoria, Australia. He earned a Bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacies in 1971 from the University of Kansas
Photo entries due tomorrow
Entries for the 18th annual KU photography contest must be submitted by 5 p.m. tomorrow to the Student Union Activities Office in the Kansas Union.
All students are eligible to enter the contest. Photographs will be judged in 10 categories on Saturday and selected in the Union Gallery from Nov. 6 to 30.
To enter, students must pay $10 and receive a copy of the entry rules from the teacher.
Author to read story Saturday
The contest is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the School of Fine Arts and SUA
The author of "The Last Cattle Drive" will read his new story at a 4p.m. Saturday, at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Robert Day will read "Shooting Pigeons in Topeka," featuring characters from "The Last Cattle Drive." The reading, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the University Press of Kansas and Town Crier Booksstore, 930 Massachusetts St.
Kassebaum talks to educators
MANHATTAN — Though clearly in favor of federal aid for education, Sen Nancy Kassebaum told about 200 rural and small school administrators that educational leadership should remain at the local level.
"It is clear that education is a national concern but I am suspicious that the infusion of federal funds would bring federal requirements" that rural and small schools would have difficulty meeting, Kassaebum said yesterday at the Rural and Small School Conference at Kansas State University.
The first public office Kassebaum held was as a member of the Maize School Board.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and there will be a 30 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. The high will be in the 50s and winds of 10 to 20 mph will be from the southeast. Tonight will be cloudy and there will be a 30 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. The high will be in the 40s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, windy and colder and the high will be in the 40s.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
'Trick or treat' traced to pagan superstitions
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Thousands of trick-or-treaters tonight will sneak into the streets of Lawrence disguised in the traditional Halloween garb of goblins, ghosts and witches.
Children and adults will stretch rubbery green monster masks over their heads, spray their hair fluorescent orange and raid Mom's makeup drawer to paint their faces.
But several hundred years ago, people didn't dn't Halloween costumes just for tricks or treats, said Chez Haehl, an associate professor of theatre.
"Long before the Christian era, the Scandinavians, Celts and Druids celebrated a feast around the end of October. They believed that as the nights got longer, the spirits of the underworld would come out and
TO SAVE THEMSELVES FROM these spirits, the pagans disguised themselves with masks and costumes and offered gifts to honor Samhain, the lord of death.
roam the earth," said Haehl, who teaches classes in costume history and design.
"You either dressed up like the spirits and joined them — disguising yourself so they couldn't recognize you — or you put out sweets to appease them," Haehl said.
In contrast to today's gorilla suits and clown costumes, the costumes of the pagan
"People simply wrapped themselves in sheets or large hunks of material," he said. The intention was to cover up any difficult part, so the spirits couldn't play tricks on you."
These sheets probably were the fore-
runners of the modern ghost costume. Haebi
THE PAGANS BELIEVED that the souls of the dead were transformed into the bodies of animals. At their yearly feast in late October, they believed, the lord of death would call together those who had died before them and decide what form their souls would take.
"That's where we get the animal motif
of the black cats, the toads, the bats," Haebi
said.
Halloween's Christian customs descend from All Saints' Dav, celebrated Nov. 1.
Halloween derives its name from the festival on the eve of All Saints' Day, known as Hallowenas. On Hallawanes night, people built great bonfires to frighten the ghosts and witches that they believed roamed the earth from sunset to sunrise.
On All Saints' Day, children and adults commonly dressed as saints, angels and saints.
to fast for the saints in exchange for money or gifts.
HALLOWEEN CAME TO THE United States in the mid-1800s with the arrival of the Irish immigrants. The Irish, descendants of the Celts, brought over spooky stories of the walking spirits, but also started the story of the jack-o-'lantern.
According to the legend, a man named Jack was kept out of Heaven because of his stinginess and couldn't enter Hell because of the tricks he played on people. He could do nothing but roam the countryside until Judgment Day.
"Back in Ireland, people carved faces on turnips and carried them as lanterns to protect themselves," Haehl said. "But when they got to America, they found that pumpkins made much better lanterns."
Area woman works magic with masks
By DAVID LASSITER Staff Reporter
Jia Krekeler, St. Louis junior, examines a hair piece for his costume. Frazier operates a costume shop out of her apart chest that Francezka Frazier chooses to go with his pirate ment at 147 Massachusetts St.
A 74-year-old Lawrence woman possesses the power to ship all who place themselves in her hands into another time and place.
Franceska Frazier doesn't wave a magic wand over your head. She asks your hat size.
From the 2,000 costumes crammed into her apartment at 1447 Massachusetts St. Frazier can rent the appropriate garb to transfer the wearer back in time.
A trip into the Roaring '20s or Renaissance Europe probably would cost the traveler less than $25. Frazier said. Her prices vary, depending on how many articles of clothing are rented and how long they are kept, she said.
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Frazier has collected costumes for 40 years. She said she didn't begin to make costumes regularly until she moved to Washington, D.C.
"I MOVED TO Washington in 1944 during World War II to get work that would help with the war, back when that was more of an honorable thing to do." Frazier said.
She found work as an illustrator for the Navy.
That was my job, so I had to find something to occupy my free time. Frazier了
something to occupy my free time.
Frazier started working with Washington theatre groups soon after she moved there. She was willing to do any work for them, she said, including painting scenery.
"They put me to work repairing costumes for their performances, and I kind of liked it. she said, "I figured it was in my blood. It was an important part of me some amateur work designing costumes."
Frazier began to collect so many garments that she soon had to find some place to store them. She eventually set up a storehouse in the empty belly of a church.
"THERE WERE ABOUT 200 theatre groups in the area, so I was kept very busy."
Four years ago, Frazier brought her magical incantations to Lawrence.
She was forced out of her Washington apartment in 1978 when it was converted into condominiums. She figured she would be a stranger wherever she moved. So she decided to move back to Lawrence, where she had lived during the 1930s, and where her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren still lived.
"I only brought back one truckload of costumes with me." Frozer said. "That was our job."
She said she gave the rest of them to theatre groups in Washington before she left. Someone told her that no one would want Renaissance-period costumes in Kansas, so she gave away about five van loads to a Shakespearean troupe.
"I got back here, and the first thing to hit me is the Renaissance Festival," she said.
pieces of her magic. She moves nonstop showing and describing her wares.
THE ROOMS are packed with rack after rack of jackets and dresses and box after box of costume jewelry, hats, eyeglasses and sunglasses. They help preserve memory helped her keep track of everything.
Every room in her apartment is filled with
She doesn't use her costumes anymore, she said, because she couldn't put up with the criticism. "I don't like it."
Frazier's magic has touched theatre artists for miles around Lawrence. She has rented costumes to schools in Overland Park, Tonganoxie, Oskaloosa and Ottawa.
Most of her business, though, is local. She supplied the costumes for the Theatre for Young People's production of the "Micado." She also supplied the costumes for Central Junior High School's production of "Fiddler on the Roof," which the school performed in its auditorium across the street from her apartment.
Frazier has run into a few problems in neo business.
"I USED TO rent to everyone," she said, "but I ran into some trouble with the students on the Hill last year. So I have to stop letting out my things to them.
"I had five of my best evening suits stolen.
That kind of thing isn't any fun. And you know, when it stops being fun, that's when you have to quit."
Aside from the trouble she has had, Frazier said, her business was still enjoyable. The amount of time she gets to work on costumes depends on the number of customers she has.
She also has spent time over the past year teaching costume design to her apprentice.
To preserve her trade, Frazier is also trying to record her work in a book of costume patterns. All of the costumes she makes are unique, in pattern as well as cloth. Her book contains old letters of instructions she wrote to her helpers over the years.
PedalJets got no photos but kept Prince's white glove
Staff Reporter
By DAVID LASSITER
A heavily perfumed, white lace glove is the only souvenir the PedalJets have of their recent concert with Prince and the Revolution.
Prince, clad in a red floral jump suit unexpectedly took the stage following a performance by the PedalJets in Minneapolis.
The PedalJets, a local band, returned to their home base last week after a six-week tour of the Midwest. They will play tonight at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. Pagan Idols will open the concert at 9 p. m. Tickets are $3 at the door.
the PedalJets were performing at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, they were paid a surprise visit by the rock'n roll band Prince and the Revolution.
"It was an act of God," said Darrell Laham, the PedJelts' drummer.
"WE CULD SEE the commotion back at the sound board as we were playing," said Mike Allmayer, lead singer and rhythm guitar player for the group "Later our band played in front of us," according to Prince had asked if he could use our equipment to do a set. How could we refuse?"
Prince was supposed to make his surprise appearance at 1st Avenue, Allmayer said. Instead, he decided to play in the smaller, adjacent club to a crowd of 150.
They sealed off the entrance to the club as
soon as he got there so that only the people watching us were able to see him perform
"He said good things about our music," Almanayer said, "and halfway through the set he looked over at Scott, the lead guitar and yelled. 'This is a really hot guitar.'
Almayer said he considered it an honor to have Prince play after his group and use the
PLAYING WITH PRINCE was the highlight of the PedalJets "Fear and Trembling in 844 tour. It also offset some of the hard band experience on the road, Almaverack."
Since its organization in January, the four member band has been fighting to stay
above water, despite favorable reviews from critics. Allmayer said.
"It was sort of a quest for us," Laham said. "We knew that the Grail was out there somewhere."
Despite the episode with Prince and the PedalJets' good receptions by audiences, the tour was riddled with problems.
The band's van was broken into and robbed during a performance. They lost equipment, including a camera that contained shots from a performance with Husker Du.
"So we didn't have a camera to picture of us with Prince." Almayer said.
Besides Allmayer and Laham, the PedaJets consist of Matt Kesler, bass guitar, and Scott Mize, lead guitar.
SENIORS:
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
YOUR LAST CHANCE TO APPEAR IN THE 1985 JAYHAWKER
Last week only—Nov. 12-16
$3 sitting fee
(waived when you buy yearbook)
Appointments being taken in Room 121B, Kansas Union
or by calling 864-3728 at 12:30-5 M-F
SENIOR PORTRAITS
Senior pictures will be taken in 403, Kansas Union
TONIGHT IS PITCHER NIGHT AT THE HAWK
First Pitcher—Regular Price
Refills
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