Thursday, Oct. 24, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Chicken to bring antics to stadium
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
The Famous Chicken will strut into Memorial Stadium on Saturday to help the Jayhawks pluck a victory from the 12th-ranked Oklahoma State University Cowboys.
The Chicken's appearance virtually assures a KU win, Ted Giannoulas, otherwise known as the Chicken, said in a recent telephone interview from San Diego.
"It's very unusual, but about 80 percent of the games I attend are won by the home team," he said.
Giamoulas, 29, said the Chicken was invented because he was looking for a free way to get into San Diego Padres baseball games.
"The radio station I was working for gave me $2 an hour to dress up as a chicken and go out to the baseball stadium to hand out Easter eggs," he said.
The Chicken's KU appearance is being paid for by Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes and KMBZ, a KAN sponsor of the KU-OSU game. Two sponsors of the KU-OSU game.
Feathered fan predicts KU win
The National Weather Service predicts pleasant weather for the game, which will start at 11:40 a.m.
No rain is expected and the temperature should be in the 70s.
That suits Glannoulas, who said rain dampened the Chicken's performance.
"I tend to become a waterlogged Chicken," he said. "And there's nothing maddier than a wet hen."
Giaoullas said he would be improvising many of his antics at Memorial Stadium.
"I'll be winging it," he said. "I tend to improvise more and do more with the fans at football games because I play in much with the players and referees."
"Football referees are like sacred cows. They take themselves very seriously and don't have much sense of humor."
Giamoulas said he would do some of the routines that Chicken fans had come to expect.
"Of course, I'll put the whammy on Oklahoma State and give them the raised-leg salute." he said.
Michelle Elwell, Leavenworth junior and captain of the Jayhawk mascot squad, said the Athletic Department planned a big entrance for the Chicken, including a skiff with
the Jayhawk and Jayhawk Jr.
macros.
"We'll do some other skits with the Chicken, too," she said. "And I'm hoping to play a few tricks on him."
Elwell will perform as the Jayhawk Jr. during the first half of the game. She said the role of mascot was so exhausting that another member of the squad would take over the role for the second half. Two other squad members will handle the duties of the big Jayhawk.
Ehlwell said she was looking forward to meeting Giannoulas and picking up some tricks of the mascot trade.
"I think it' s a wonderful opportunity for all of us mascots to learn from him," she said. "He's the master."
Instructors at a mascot training camp that Elwell attended in August told the participants to watch the events even chance they got, she said.
Videotapes of Chicken performances were used as training films at the camp, Elwell said, and many of the techniques the mascots learned were patterned after methods used by Giannoulas.
Gianluana described the Chicken as a nonverbal entertainer.
"I just talk to the audience through body language," he said. "I'm kind of like a fuzzy Harpo Marx."
He said he liked to perform at college events because the fans were so enthusiastic.
"College audiences are the most pumped up," he said. "And I'm including World Series audiences in that statement."
Giannoulas said the Chicken's KU visit would be sandwiched between appearances Friday at a National Basketball Association game in Chicago and Sunday at the New York Marathon. Before leaving Lawrence, he said, the Chicken will make a cameo appearance at a post-game party for the winners of drawings conducted by Long John Silver's Seafood Shops.
The Chicken has traveled to Mexico, Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico and Japan, as well as across the United States.
"The Japanese are very, very polite and love to laugh," he said.
"But nobody likes to laugh as much as Americans.
"This country has the greatest sense of humor in the world."
Care trims lawsuits medical group told
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A patient is less likely to file a malpractice suit if he thinks his physician was sensitive to his needs, a psychiatrist at the University of Kansas Medical Center told health care professionals yesterday.
The psychiatrist, John Wisner, spoke about "The Healing Power of Medical Ritual" to about 100 people at a postgraduate symposium at Battenfield Auditorium in the Student Center.
With increasing technology has come decreasing patient and physician interaction, Wisner said. That interaction, which includes the ritual of a thorough check-up, often is necessary to help reassure a patient.
"In the final analysis," Winer said, "we can generate more information nowadays. But standing 50 feet away taking a CT scan has less power to make a person feel better.
"Very simple contact, the act of
doing something, produces an incredible state of well-being."
Although that feeling of well-being may be a placebo effect and may be temporary, it is important, he said.
"There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the placebo effect," he said.
The power of touch — direct, hands-on contact — begins the healing process, he said.
Wisner said that a patient who thought he had been an active participant in his diagnosis and treatment and who had developed some sort of intimacy with his physician was less likely to sue if something went wrong.
The physician, whom the man had known for a long time, initially amputated the wrong toe. But because the physician was well-known, the man "forgave" his mistake.
He gave an example of a man who had both of his big toes amputated. One of the toes had to be amputated because of frostbite.
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