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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
Campus/Area
Steve Mingle/KANSAN
O Tannenbaum
Daylight shines into the rotunda of Strong Hall, where the University Christmas tree stands. The tree was put up in Strong earlier this week
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Pageant organizers seek inner beauty
After Tuesday's invitational meeting, 210 KU women sat back and began waiting patiently for letters indicating whether they would be contestants in the 1986 Miss Kansas-U.S.A. pageant.
"They say they are looking for inner beauty." Cindy Carle, Overland Park freshman and pageant nominee, said yesterday. "All the girls who were there had something special to offer. I think I fit into that category, too."
The women chosen to participate in the Miss Kansas-U.S.A. contest, which will be held in February in Wichita, will be notified during Christmas break.
The women learned about the pageant and its goals at the organizational meeting. The candidates participated in five-minute interviews designed to give the pageant committee information about the students' interests and career goals.
KU organizations, including sororites, fraternities and living groups, nominated women between the ages of 17 and 25 who they thought stood in the areas of personality, attractiveness and academics, said Bob Montgomery, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman and coordinator of Lawrence's invitational division.
"We want girls who are really neat," Montgomery said. "People you don't have to think about, they just stand out in your mind."
The information gathered will help the committee cut the list of contestants to only the women who fit the Miss Kansas-U.S.A. ideal.
"There's no set number on how many girls will make it to the pageant," Montgomery said."
He said the committee looked for women who were outstanding in the areas of personality, looks and academics — and not a 5-foot-5-inch blonde who has stunning blue eyes and looks as if she comes from California.
The women who are chosen to compete in the pageant in Wichita will compete against contestants from across the state of Kansas in narrative, bathing suit and evening gown competitions.
Jill Elliott, Little Rock, Ark., freshman and pageant nominee; said, "It's fun and exciting participating in a pageant. You make friends with the other girls, and by the time the pageant is over you don't care who wins."
For the embarrassed bathing beauties, the swim suit competition, except for the finals, will be conducted in private. Montgomery said.
Carle said, "I think I'd be really embarrassed if I had to get up on stage and walk around in my swim suit. But I'd do it if I had to."
Low GPA cuts financial aid Students face loss of support
By Monty Headley Special to the Kansan
Students who received government loans or grants this semester may have their aid checks for next semester withheld if their gradepoint averages are lower than required, the director of financial aid said yesterday.
Jerry Rogers, the director, said students who received any government loan must maintain a certain GPA to stay eligible for that aid.
Students who have received GSLs
The types of aid in that category are Guaranteed Student Loans, National Direct Student Loans, Pell Grants, Work Study programs and other programs financed by the federal government.
for this semester would receive their GSL checks for next semester even if their GPAs were not satisfactory, he said. Based on low GPAs, students may not be eligible for GSLs for the next academic year.
According to the Financial Aid Guide, published by the office of financial aid, first-semester freshmen must have a 1.3 GPA to receive aid for the spring semester. Third-semester sophomores must have a 1.5 cumulative GPA.
Fifth semester juniors must have a 1.8 cumulative GPA. After the sixth semester, all students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA.
Rogers said recent figures were not available on the number of students who had lost aid because of low GPA's.
Rogers said that students who had lost their aid because of low grades could appeal the loss to the Committee for Academic Standards, which could reverse the decision.
The committee comprises the director of financial aid, the associate director of financial aid and a member of the financial aid staff.
Rogers said no criteria had been set for evaluating the appeals.
Appeals that are denied by the committee can be submitted to Gil Dyck, dean of educational services, for consideration, Rogers said. Dyck has the final say on appeals.
"We take and evaluate each appeal on its own merit," he said.
Dancers to perform concert
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
New dance faculty and the University Dance Company will perform new choreography tomorrow and Saturday in the first concert since the division of dance moved to the School of Fine Arts.
The theme, "New Faculty Dance," is appropriate for the concert, which highlights work by new faculty members Scott Douglas Morrow, assistant professor of dance, Linda Muir, visiting instructor of ballet, and Mary L. Halverstadt, guest lecturer in舞.
"Most of the works are premiers." Janet Hamburg, chairman of the division of dance, said yesterday. "I really did want to feature the new faculty, and I think it's going to be a very good concert."
Performances have been scheduled for 8 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday in the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, 240A Robin Center. Tickets, on sale at the Murphy Hall box office, cost $3 for students and $5 for the public.
Morrow's "Currents: Movement I" will open the program. Emily Ng, Hong Kong graduate student, will accompany the dancers with piano music excerpts from Beethover's "Sonata, opus 31."
Morrow also choreographed a solo dance, "Lotus Blossom," which features the music of Duke Ellington.
Hamburg said the concert should be interesting not only because of the variety but also because some dance instructors would be performing.
Marsha Paludan, teaching assistant in the department of theater and media arts, will be featured in a
vocal improvisation during the last selection, "Courting."
"It is about a tennis game." Hamburg said. "Some dancers carry tennis racquets, and several of them form a human net. You don't need to have seen any dance to enjoy it."
Muir choreographed "Courting" and another selection, "Xango," a pure-movement piece combining ballet and modern dance. She also will dance in the classical ballet "In Our Garden," which was choreographed especially for Muir while she was a student at the University of Utah.
Halverstadt choreographed a piece for the concert called "Angular Notions." It is a modern dance trio that creates images of diagonals using the dancers' bodies and the stage space Halverstadt also is one of the featured dancers.
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