Male dancers strip to cheers, applause at The Bird
Bv ANN LANGENFELD
A man walks into a Lawrence private club. "Are you here to dance?" the owner asks.
A look of surprise, a glimpse at the stage, and the man shakes his head and hurries out the door.
It's ladies night at the Flamingo Club, otherwise known as the Bird. Women only invited. Men will be allowed.
The attraction? Male dancers.
And about 75 ladies have come to have a good time. The younger-looking college women sit in the booths and tables around the room. In a tight knit cluster, to the front sit the 'townies'—most appear 30 to 40 years old.
No matter what the age, the ladies are booting,
bullering, whistling, stomping their feet and poun-
ning.
"Show us some skin!" they cry.
Standing on a table top is a young man, dancing to the music, while the generous and generous man sits nearby.
He is blind and he has a wide, friendly grin. His round, baby face has an appeal few women can handle.
HE JUMPS OFF the table and dances throughout
the room. The dollar bills bribe from his shorts,
the honour never leaves his face.
Back on stage, under the red and blue lights, the sweat glistens off his broad shoulders as he moves around the stage.
"I love to dance. I go to the discs all the time. This is great." The dancer, a KU student, says.
1. have a girlfriend, "me." said she. "goes to college somewhere else, if she knew I did this, she kill me"
He begins to roll down his shorts, slowly. The shrieks and applause are deafening. But just before too much is shown, the shorts quickly are rolled back into place.
"I love to tease them," he says, "If I took off my shorts, half the appeal of my act would be gone."
"The first night I came on the owner told me I couldn't take off my shorts. It's against the law, I could."
He finishes dancing, moves to the side of the stage behind the tutletable set up, and mulls on his pants.
"I started doing this a few years ago, he says "Some might a friend and I quite drunk really."
we knew they were naming dancers out here so we called up and asked if they needed me, but none of them too much.
i drive to The Bird takes in little-frauded parts of Lawrence, over the Kansas River bridge into Kansas City. We get a nice bit of T-intersection and directs seekers of the Flamingo Club to turn right, off to the left, lights glow and opens the entrance to the Museum.
"IT'S NOT TOO bad having a bunch of women
seven you would wilt think?"
from that night, but I've been back three or four more times to do it again.
THE SECOND DANER walk to the center of the stage. A college man with dark brown hair and a white shirt.
His blue T-shirt is soon removed. He takes longer to remove the curled blue jeans, much to the concern of his mother.
And when the green, blue and white abstract-pattern baked cookies appear, chews, whistles and sips.
"Take it off!" they demand.
Once again, dollar bills are slipped into shorts. Some women attempt a peek or a feel at the same person.
The first dance says, "I just tell myself that I wear swimming trunks in the air or my shirt. I look to the mirror."
The third dancer, older and wearing blue eye shadow, quickly strips to his yellow bikini briefs. He teaches the women with a red scarf she has seductively withdrawn from his shorts. Then, in a flash, he
WE CAN DRINK all we want while we're here. I try not to eat too much. But it does get easier to eat when you're hungry.
That movement is greeted with a single shriek from a woman in a red-felt derby. The whistles and rattle of her feet are heard.
"He won't get many dollars that way," one woman observes.
He leaves the stage and moves through the audience,站在 talk back here, stealing a kiss there.
THE YOUNGER-LOOKING women begin to drift toward the door in threes and fours.
What do you say to a naked man?
Soon the room, filled with Fermina-covered tables, an ectopic mix chairs and black boots, is almost
The hard-core group at center-stage front remains. The club owner is on stage demanding that the
"You never know if a woman stripper gets turned on," a woman notes. "I guess some male strippers
appears to be in a sexual fantasy all his own. He doesn't smile. He doesn't seem shy.
The dancer leaves the stage and seeks long, deep tears from any willing woman. His look of aloofness
The blond dancer comments, "He loves doing this. 'do it even if he weren't paid. I be very emerald."
As the turned-on dancer finishes his act, the women shout. "We want Tom. We want Tom."
one time a woman about 40 years old wanted me to go to the back room with her. Tom says, "I tell you."
And the blond teaser from the first act is back on stage.
"I don't even enjoy kissing them. Some of the guys let the women kiss them. I don't. I'm here to give em
One of the categories listed is "medical, psychiatric, psychological or sociological records." Stephan questioned whether "sociological" records could be easily found.
"Another time I danced at a private party. Some girl was getting married. They it was. It was a very special day."
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"Can you imagine? If I'm doing this now for fun, what will my grandchildren do for fun?"
Carl Monk, dean of the Washburn law school, also said "sociological" was too
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"1 CERTAINLY AND agree that formal complaints and court files should be open to the public. 2 The rules should not be open because it might be harmful to individuals and harmful to the community."
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proposal. However, he asked that certain law enforcement records be kept closed.
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Public records bill hits committee snag
While most other students were riding the bus during yesterday's thunderstorm. Andy de Valpine, Lawrence freshman, chose ride his bicycle and stay dry with the aid of a wet bike.
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TOPEKA-A Bill to open more public records in Kawasaki will have to be drafted for the fifth time because too many questions are being raised by the federal and State Affairs Committee meeting.
The state legislative committee had been expected to approve the bill today. However, certain phrases and definitions in the proposal did not satisfy some officials.
The bill would open to the public any record that is made, maintained or kept by any public agency.
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
What bus?
The current law makes available only those records that are required to be kept by a public agency.
Attorney General Robert Stephan, who earlier called the current law a "closed records law," told the committee yesterday that he was "very thrilled" with the
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Tornado strikes four-county area
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
An unusual fall tornado hit a half-mile-
wide area of southern Kansas counties yesterday afternoon and evening, injuring 11 persons and causing
No deaths were reported, but one woman was flown to a Wichita hospital in critical condition, two others were hospitalized at the scene, and another was taken to a Mapphospital.
All 11 persons were injured when the tandoo struck a poultry farm just east of Clay County, killing and destroying about half a dozen buildings and killing thousands of chickens. Clay County has been hit with at least 26 bites.
THE TWISTER first touched down northwest of Minneapolis, Kan., about 4:15
p. m., where it leveled three farms, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
The tornado then skipped northeast through Clay County—where most of the damage occurred—Riley County and Pottawatonna County, the patrol reported.
Passing to the south of Clay Center, the funnel destroyed at least four long, sheet-metal chicken houses and severely damaged two-story house occupied by the family.
Conser said most of those injured were in the house or a nearby office, but at least four persons were crouched in a ditch when the twister dumped debris on them.
TWO OTHER barns in Clay County were damaged by the tornado, which also overturned a mobile home, the sheriff said.
An unoccupied mobile home near
After destroying the chicken farm, located two miles east of Clay Center, authorities said the tornado lifted into the
In Manhattan, a hay barn at Kansas State University was destroyed by fire when it was discovered that damage was estimated at $35,000. A university spokesman said the blaze did not involve any structural damage.
The tornado that struck the chicken farm first touched down in Ottawa County, where it destroyed several buildings on three farms but caused no injuries.
Leonardville in Riley County was overturned, and several cars were destroyed, the natrol said.
Two persons suffered fractures near Oranga in northern Potutwatonic County, where several farm houses and outbuildings were damaged, authorities said.
The National Weather Service said confirmed tornadoes were reported in Marion, Saline, Ottawa, Clay, Cloud, Riley and Potawatomi counties. Some damage was reported near Louisville in southern Kentucky where storm winds were clocked as high as 100 mph.
clouds before dropping to the ground again near Randolph, where more farm buildings were damaged and an undetermined number of livestock were killed.
NATIONAL WEATHER Service officials in Topera reported that 1.08 inches of rain had fallen on Tuesday, ending at midnight yesterday. Winds in Topera reached 45 mph at 9:30 p.m.
Rainfall amounts and storm damage reports were not available for Lawrence as of 1 a.m. today.
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Plan to house new sorority in residence hall meets up with opposition at AURH meeting
A resolution to oppose admission of the Owner's sorrow into the residence system at an association and withdrawn at an Association of University Residence Halls general meeting.
AURH members debated for more than an hour about the desirability of providing living space for Alpha Omicron Pi security at UW-Milwaukee of a University residence hall next year.
McElhenie said representatives from the
"We have made a commitment at this point," he said. "I don't know that students determine who will and who will not enter residence halls."
However, Fred McElhene, director of the office of residential programs, said that Alpha Omicron P1 pliedges would be living in a university residence hall next year.
national organization of Alpha Omicron I
met last spring in New York, and an Ame-
rii life, and Anu Envire, director of student organizations and activities to discuss housing options for the nation.
LESLIE WELCH, traveling consultant for Alpha Omicron Pi said, "To my knowledge, we have been promised spaces."
She said when national representatives of Alpha Omicron Pi met with University of Florida students, she recognized on campus this fall and provide competitively-priced housing in a security house by the fall of 1981 in return for living spaces next up on a floor of a University building.
Aly Opicorn Pi has 51 pledges and is holding informal rush to obtain more members, accordant with the plans of his secretary for the sorority and vice president of Lewis Hall. She said the
sorority also would participate in formal rush this January to obtain more members.
Smith said that if the *i*orosity could not fill a floor of a residence hall next fall, the additional spaces on the floor would be contracted to other students.
MCELHENIE SAID he, Eversole and Smith had not yet determined which residence hall would house the pledges.
However, Jay Smith, president of AUHR, said, "I believe that Alpha Omicron Pi's preference is Lewis, Ellsworth and Oliver, in that order."
Representatives for two of those residence hills said residents of their halls were strongly opposed to location of the sorority members in their halls.
Ann Shields, Lewis Hall president, introduced the proposed resolution to bar sorority members from Lewis.
"This entire thing has gotten further than Lewis Hall wants," she said.
She said a poll was taken two consecutive nights at the hall during dinner, and 189 residents had voted against any move to allow the use of the hall. About 25 had supported such a move.
"Lewis Hall is the only all-women's hall free from any ties with sororities," Shields said. "We have a unique atmosphere."
SHIELDS BROUGHT a petition to the meeting with names of 400 Lewis residents who were against the sorority's entrance into the hall.
Miriam Elderman,教授 of Ellsworth Hall, said, "Ellsworth Hall members oppose such a move just as vehemently. Although it's not been discussed at the Ellsworth Senate yet, it has been discussed among the students. We have strong hall support behind us."
Smith said members of the sorority would have to pay the full contract price, as do
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Author hates 'Clockwork Orange'
Rv AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
Seasoned with cigar smoke and a crisp English accent, Anthony Burgess' words flowed vigorously yesterday.
But then Burgess lives for the sound of words.
In a KU humanities lecture last night at the Kansas Union, the novelist-comperee Laura Jubler used Woodruff Auditorium for nearly two hours with a tik-tak The Novelist's Daily
Although he did not publish a novel until he was 30 years old, Burgess 62, is the author of "The best known is 'A Clockwork Orange.'" The book was published in 1902 and made into a film.
"The sound of words is what I live for"—Anthony Burgess
"If an author is known at all, it's for something he detests," she said, explaining that "A Clockwork Orange" was not his personal favorite. This book, like all his works, is based on his inherent conviction of freedom choice and the free will of the human being.
BURGESS TRACED this belief to his origin as an northwestern Irish Catholic Englishman. He was reared in Managua, where he played mother-giver and dancing girl-baker.
"In northwestern England, if you have any talent at all, you become an entertainer," he said. So at the age of 15, Burress been composing music.
But "late in life," he said he realized that he was not going to be an outstanding
composer and that "it must be easier to compose a novel than it was to compose a symphony."
He said he wrote his first novel as a hobby to determine whether he be occupied with novel-writing for a long period of time.
After his first two efforts failed to be published, Burgess taught at a colonial school in Malaya and this was born first and published work, "The Malaysian Triplet."
THIS WAS HIS only truly autobiographical work, he said in an interview viedearday afternoon.
"It's not true that you need to experience everything to write about it," Burgess said. "You can guess your way into it. All
He said he tended to view the "real events of the world as potential fiction."
experiences are capable of being imagined."
His characters are, however, very real, he said, and are taken from people he has met. From these beginnings, he said, his characters come alive.
'My characters take over the story.
Thus the novel is never born artificially
and the ending is never planned; it can't be
predicted what the characters will do.'
"There is no money in the writing of
NOVEL WRITING is a "faculty imposed upon us" he said, and is part of the novelist's daily damnation, part of the cross he must bear.
literature. I will never be rich, but then I expected to be."
are also said he never expected to be a figure and denied that he was one now. But Mr. Orange cataplummed him onto college campuses into the libraries of universities into the colleges of university.
"I'm not the cult figure; Kubrick is," Burgess said. "That was his "Clockwork Orange." Not mine.
His book is the story of a hoodlum, Alex, who with his companions, pilages the countryside, raping, stealing and killing, and being programmed in prison to do nothing but good.
GESS SAID he wrote the novel in
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