CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, September 10, 1984
Page 7
Beach office takes Senate to students
Buddy Manogue/KANSAN
Donna 'Bong' Highberger, student body vice president, talks with Laura Coulter, Preston junior, in front of Wesco Hall. Highberger and Carla Vogel (left), student body president, Friday promoted the idea of using bicycles for campus transportation. Looking at the bicycle is Miles McNall (right). Lawrence senior.
By JOHN HANNA Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
About 10 students gathered around the small brown table in front of Wescoe Hall on Friday. The wind rustled through the papers on the table.
Less than five feet away, two musicians, one with a guitar, and the other with a baroque, sang folk songs on the acoustic "Blues" for curious passersby.
"IT'S OUR MASCOT," he said, smiling.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, sat behind the table. And every few minutes, he lifted up the plastic pink flamingo that he was holding and waved it happily at a car driving down Jayhawk Boulevard.
student Senate had hit the streets.
Highberger and Carla Vogel, student body president, moved their office from the Kansas University during lunch hour Friday to Wescoe Hall beach. The Association of Student Affairs recognized Students of Kansas, about forming a student union at the University and a list of their ideas on issues such as South Africa and its apartheid.
they also had invited Mark Lumpe, RFD 2, and Dick Powers. Prairie Village junior, to play their instruments as they discussed student government with students who stopped by.
Vogel said she and Highberger had put his office outside to reach more students and to let them know about Student Senate. Highberger said they also wanted to have a little fun talking to students.
"IT'S HARD TO talk to people when you're stuck in the office," Vorel said.
Vogel and Higberger moved their
office outside once during the summer and Vogel said that they planned to do it again by the end of the month. She said they also were planning to visit bars near campus to meet more students.
after glancing at it curiously, and about 100 people watched from the steps of Wescoc Hall. But the table had eight to ten students surrounding it most of the time.
Highbuster could not say how many people he and Vogel had met
while they were outside, but he said that it was more than the number they met in the office.
Many students passed by the table
some people probably think it's pretty weird," Higgerber said. "There will always be people who think that way."
Marching Cobras dance downtown
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
They sat on the curb, dallied in shops, stood in the back of pickups.
About 600 people lingered around downtown Lawrence Saturday afternoon waiting to see 40 musicians from the sound of pounding drums.
The Marching 23rd Street Cobras, led by founder and sponsor Willie Smith, gave the crowd what he had always needed—a unique energy packed show.
energy. WITH SMITH, WITH WHISTLE IN mouth and sporting a baby blue tuxedo with a sequined Cobra on the back, directed the teen-agers into speedy dance routines.
Breakdancing, flip flops and beating drums were all part of the 20-minute show that drew five minutes of applause.
"You don't see it anywhere else because there's nothing copied," he said. "We don't turn any talent down."
"If you can break dance, we use you. If you can do acrobatics, we use you. It's an organization open to doing it and to do good."
Denise Garrett, a spectator who had seen the Cobras before, said, "it's unbelievable. They're so stupid together. They don't miss a beat."
Robinson Shoe Co., 837 Massachusetts St., sponsored the parade Saturday to give people a chance to see the Cobras and to promote the store, which opened April 2,
said Jeff Wiard, general manager of the shoe store chain.
THE 107-MEMBER DRILL team has performed their routines around the nation. They have appeared on the television shows "P.M. Magazine" and "Good Morning America."
"When I first started, I had to go out looking for performances," Smith said. "Now I don't have to answer the phone."
"It INCREASED FROM 13 boys to 27 boys, and each year it increased," he said. "By 1976, the bicentennial year, the girls started complaining."
Smith started the organization in 1970 to raise money for Lincoln Academy, which had been damaged by a fire.
The members of the now co-ed drill team come from inner-city Kansas City, Mo., schools. The members, all between 12 and 17, must maintain a C- grade average to perform. Smith said he checked on the members grades just as a father would.
One motive for continuing the drill team was to keep the teens off the street and give them a chance to deviate their time to, Smith said.
"I'm the only man in the world with 107 children, and I love all of them." Smith said.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
STUDENT CREATIVE ANACRONIST will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Jawhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
SMALL WORLD will meet from 9:15 a.m to 11 a.m at the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St.
ANNESTY INTERNATIONAL will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union.
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