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University Daily Kansan, October 3.1984
Page 5
Knights battle for fun in old styles that stun
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
BONNER SPRINGS — Hundreds of KU students have probably seen "Camelot." Several may have worn Renaissance garb to a costume party.
But only a few have fought in a medieval war. And just one oversees a shire and serves as squirte to one of only seven knights in a four-state kingdom.
Greg Anderson, head of Student Creative Anachronists at the University of Kansas and known to follow anachronists as Roderick Mandrake, joined the group three years ago after observing sword fighting at the annual Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs.
"I came here three years ago and said 'I like this,'" he said. "But I found out there's a lot more emotional energy involved in it than going out and having fun."
ANDERSON BECAME ONE of thousands of people who create another identity for themselves in the Society for Creative Anachronists, a worldwide organization devoted to the re-enactment of European life from 600 to 1600 A.D.
Members of the Society indulge their love of long ago by studying medieval and Renaissance life, from brewing to calling castles, to taking lake many others. Anderson chose fighting.
The camaraderie is great," he said. "It'll be in football or baseball, you get that team in."
Anderson said that fighting methods in the Society originally evolved through trial and error.
"THERE WERE NO medieval fighting manuals," he said. "When the Society started 18 years ago, they used trash can lids and broomsticks."
Eventually, Anderson said, these make
shift methods became an elaborate fighting system using eight kinds of weapons.
Fights among warriors are won by
bells striking blows below the
knee if they touch or to one's opponent.
"Our tournament fighting is not staged
be said. 'Somebody's actually trying to
win.'"
Anderson is knights marshal of the KU group, which is dubbed the Shire of Carlsby and has 20 members. Seven members of the KU group fought in mock battles and manned crafts boots at this year's Renaissance Festival, which runs for six consecutive weekends from Labor Day through this weekend.
As knights marshal, Anderson is the groun's most experienced fighter.
AT THE RENAISSANCE Festival Saturday, Anderson fought with a glace, a six-foot pole topped with a blade. He was forced to switch to a sword and shield Sunday, however, after his finger was bruised in Saturday's fighting.
On Sunday afternoon, Anderson joined a group of 13 other knights in a mule before a meeting with the king.
heavily armored fighters exchanged blows in a roped-off clearing surrounded by towering elms. Audience members sat on bales of straw or wandered beneath a cloudless sky, applauding as the smack of a breastplate against a breastplate signaled a victory.
ANDERSON IS COMPETENT with the weapons used by knights in the Society, but he said he didn't know whether he would ever become a knight the mastery necessary to become a knight.
"Out here, it's much more of a show," Anderson said. "We're not pushing to win exhibition."
"Knights have to pour an incredible amount of time and energy into it," he said. "It's a very exclusive position to hold."
Greg Anderson, Meriden junior (left), and Richard Jones, Toppea, members of the Society for Creative Anachronists, fight each other during one of many matches at the Renaissance Festival. Anderson and Jones, who made their suits of armor, have been participating in the festival for the last three years.
"It's a very exclusive position to hold There's a lot of mystique in knighthood."
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Delegation offers praise for Winn
WASHINGTON — Members of the Kansas Congressional delegation, Democratic and Republican alike, lauded retiring Rep. Larry Riley for his service in serving orders portion of Congress' day yesterday.
Winn, dean of the Kansas delegation, is retiring to return home to Kansas.
Winn's four House colleagues praised the 3rd District Republican congressman as a dedicated legislator whose low-key approach served his district well through 18 years.
"His reputation as a capable and popular member of Congress is the result of dedication to his constituents, and the ability to get results without loud speeches or a deluge of press releases to make his point," said Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery of Larry Winn has not been a phone grandmaster. He has spoken through his actions.
"He is the first to tell you that his approach to the job of congressman is low-key. His manner may be reserved but Larry is effective in making his views known."
Slattery and other members said Winn's record of constituent service to Kansas City, Kan, and affluent Johnson County "is second to none."
"In the House of Representatives, Larry Winn has distinguished himself through his service to the Committee on Science and Technology," said Rep. Bob Whittaker of Augusta. "He has fought to keep America at the cutting edge in scientific research and in fighting shape as we face the high-tech future.
Whitaker said Winn also has worked tirelessly for the American Red Cross, the Boy Souts, United Fund, Junior Achievement, the Rotary and the Republican Party.
"Larry is the congressional cornerstone of our space program and rightfully shares in the credit for America's mammoth achievements in space exploration."
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