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University Daily Kansan
Thursday Features
Thursday, Oct. 10, 1985
Every Sunday afternoon, a private war is fought on the outskirts of Topeka. Even though it's only a game,it's still a matter of ...
SURVIVAL
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Above left, Army fatigues are the mode of dress for The Survival Game. The players first meet at the shack to pick up their ammunition and then are divided into teams. Left, Jerry Fickes, a student at Washburn University in Topeka, spots an opponent. Above, the brown team members plan their strategy as they walk to their camp.
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff $ ^{f} $
OPEKA - Everything was quiet in the woods.
The gentle hum of leaves the whirr
crickets and the whir
ring of grasshoppers filled the celery,
warm air with comforting sounds.
Then, suddenly "Pop" splat!
Then, suddenly "Pop" splat! appeared on a mossy tree trunk.
Dried leaves rusted, twigs crunched and bushes shivered as a camouflage-clad man dived from behind the tree trunk, landing with a thud on his belly He crawled underneath some trees. His shiny black brush and lay still, the shiny black brush in his pistol poking through the foliage.
"He's over there," came a hushed voice from across a muddy creek.
A partner replied as the two stalk ed the hiding man, "I'll circle around behind."
Soon, a volley of staccato pops echoed through the woods as the three people opened fire on one another. The battle continued until the man beneath the brush yelled, "Don't shoot, I'm dead."
The man then stood up, revealing a bright orange splodge on his fatigues, and hurried to the neutral zone to heal his battle "wounds." Back at the neutral zone, his orange wound was healed with a quick swipe of a paper towel.
Fifteen minutes later, he made his way back through the bushes to join his team in the fighting.
Although Rambo would revel in the search and destroy tactics employed by these pseudo-soldiers, he might not realize that this fighting was only
it has been played on a three-to-four-acre field in southwest Topeka on most Sundays during the last year. It was lost to Crosby lot, 53, a judge the battlefield.
The Survival Game is an adult version of a children's game called Capture the Flag. The object is for a team to steal the enemy's flag from the opposition's home base and get it back to its home base, or to kill as many of the enemy as possible.
Anyone 18 years old or older is eligible to play. Rosselot said. Interested participants show up at 1 p.m. and are divided into two teams. One team receives brown arm bands and the other wears red ones.
The game, which is popular in California, Canada and on the East Coast, has been criticized by some who have said it promotes and glorifies war. However, the Survival Game in Topeka has not been confronted with any opposition, Rosselot said.
"It's nothing but a stupid game," said Rossetol, who also is president of Kaw Valley Adventures, Inc., the organization that runs the game in Topeka. "It involves a little strategy, but no politics."
between natties, Troy Keehn, a 19-year-old player from Halton, said he had played the game every weekend for the past four months.
"All it takes is a trigger finger and a lobotomy." Keen said.
The trigger finger is needed to fire a Ne! Spot 007 gun which normally is
used to mark cattle and trees. Rosselot said.
For ammunition, the gun uses spherical paint pellets which explode in a burst of orange, water-soluble paint. Each gun holds a 10-pellet tube of ammunition.
Three games or three hours of play, depending on the length of each game, costs $12.50. This price includes a gun, one paint tube, one carbon dioxide cartridge and a pair of goggles. Each additional tube of pellets costs $2.50 and each carbon dioxide cartridge is 50 cents.
Because trigger-happy players shoot many pellets, some say the game is too expensive for them to play as often as they would like.
Of the 13 participants last Sunday, only one was a woman. Roselot said more men than women usually played the game.
Beth Gwynne-Thomas, Lawrence wrenche and the only woman playing, had an explanation for the small number of females who participated.
"There aren't any butch girls left," she said as she crashed through the foliage to slide down a mud embankment into an icy, knee-deep creek.
Ed Hiney and Bryan Miller were dead in the neutral zone. They paced impatiently while waiting for their 15 minutes of "death" to expire.
Hiney, Long Island, N.Y. sophmore, said he had played the game before in Long Island.
"I love it," he said. "You're playing war, but you live. You get killed but it's no big deal because you just come back 15 minutes later."
Just as Miller began to explain how he had been slain, a judge at the netral zone base yelled, "Ed and Bryan can go out."
Miller, St. Louis junior, said that his only regret about playing the game was that he had been killed too soon.
The two men, leaving in midsentence, bolted across a field and rounded a clump of trees, clutching their pistols and grinning. They disappeared into the woods to destroy the enemy and to capture the glory of victory. But most of all, they set out to have fun.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Steve Wanamaker. Overland Park sophomore, lies on his back, trying to avoid being seen. Players use guns that shoot pellets of orange paint, and a player is "killed" when he is marked by the dye.
Paisley design makes imprint on KU fashions
Of the Kansan staff
Rv Susie Bishop
Put away the neon socks and pull out the paisley print shirts. Make way for the new fashion trend sweeping the country.
The classic pasley print, with its teardrop design, is back in style on campuses across the nation. Bebe Murphy, associate professor of textile design, said Monday.
Before the recent revival in paisley popularity, the design was usually relegated to scarves, ties and grandmother's dresses. Now, faculty and students alike are wearing the distinctive print on belts, shirts, skirts, shoes, jeans, watch faces and bands, said Jan Hisey, district manager of Scot's Ltd, 919 Massachusetts St.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor and a long-time paisley fan, said he received his first paisley tie as a gift from his wife. The print was functional as well as fashionable, Cobb said.
"They don't show gravity stains," he said
"I know a couple of guys who have pasyli shirts." Rutledge said. "They kind of look like they're from the 60s. It's going to be big stuff pretty soon. People like it because it's different."
"You don't have to worry about colors; they go with anything."
Scott Rutledge, Leawood freshman, said that although women were the main paisley wearers, men also were getting into the trend.
Rutledge said he has seen paisley print cuffs on dress pants, as well as the usual paisley tie.
Rutledge, who owns two paisley ties, said,
"In the future I may purchase more paisley,
but I'm not a trend setter."
But Catherine Tack, Riverside, Calif. sophomore, dares to be different in her gray paisley stirrup pants.
"Paisley has been here before and it's cat ching on again." Tuck said.
Many of her Friends, both here and in California, wear paisley prints, she said.
She said men in California wore more paisley prints than did Kansas men because Californians tended to lean toward the unusual.
Whether or not pasley print becomes an all-consuming fad at the University of Kansas, Tom Nussrallah, Omaha, Neb., freshman, said he didn't and wouldn't own anything with paisley on it.
He said paisley had never appealed to him,
so he wouldn't wear it.
People of all ages went paisley, said Laura Simmons, assistant manager of Maurice's, 708 Massachusetts St. Adults more often choose to wear ties and scarves in paisley print, and the younger set is drawn to the printed jeans.
"Patsley as a fad will fade, but the print will never go out of style," Simmons said.
She said the paisley daj might take longer to die out because the print was a classic.
to die out because the print was a clamshell.
But for the time being, paisley printed
items are so popular some stores can't keep
them stocked.
Kelly Pollock, Lawrence freshman and an
employee at JC Penney Co., 1801 W, 23rd St. sald the store sold an entire shipment of paisley print jeans quickly, then was unable to restock because of the demand for the jeans across the nation.
Murphy said the paisley fashion ran in a cycle.
The teardrop design associated with paisley prints is called buta, an Indian term, she said. Buta was one of the motifs woven during the 18th century in Kashmir, India.
murphy said that textile designers lately have gained new interest in paisley from several national exhibitions of Indian Kashmir shawls woven in the original print.
She said the Indian shawls were made of hair from the underbelly of an undesignated Tibetan mountain goat. Fiber from the underbelly of goats is called cashmere.
Residents in the Scottish city, Paisley,
began making scarves with the butta design
in the 1850s when the original scarves from
India became too expensive to import.
On Tap
Nancy Haney Peggy Helsel
CONCERTS:
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow for the Violent Femmes concert, which is scheduled for 8 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Kansas Union Ballroom. The concert is sponsored by Student Union Activities and KJHKFM. An opening act for the concert will be announced later. All tickets are general admission and can be bought for $7 with a KU ID and $5 for the public at the SUA box office or at any CATS outlets, including Omni Electronics, 540 Fireside Court.
SUA MOVIES
Poverty Wanks, a reggae band, will perform at The Jazzhaus, 926° Massachusetts St., at 9 p.m. today. Charlie Musselwhite will play his blues harp at 9 p.m. tomorrow. McBun's History of Rock 'n' Roll will be performed at 9 p.m. Saturday. Cover charge for all shows is $3.
VCR rentals clubs popular on weekends
"Tie Tin Drum" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today, "Paris, Texas" is scheduled to be shown at 6 p.m. tomorrow and at 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday "Faleon and the Snowman" will be shown at 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. tomorrow and at 6 p.m. Saturday "Pink Flamingos" will be the midnight movie "Northern Lights" will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday. All movies will be shown in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union. Tickets can be bought at the SUA box office and are $1.50 for all movies except the midnight movie, which is $2.
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
The desire for low-priced entertainment was one of the motivating factors for a group of students to start the Sunday Movie Club, Robert Coover,托彭教首, said Monday.
The club, which started two years ago, now has 15 members. Every Sunday club members get together to watch movies, Coover said. They either go to the Sunday matinee or rent a video cassette recorder and a couple of movies and meet in a member's apartment.
About half the time, the club rents movies. Coover said.
"It all depends what's on at the matines" he said.
Cover said majority rule decided which movies were rented each Sunday. The cost of renting the VCR and cassettes is split among the members, he said.
Other students take advantage of the greater variety available through rental movies. Matt O'Donnell, Overland Park junior, said he had been to the theaters only four times and then only to please his girlfriend.
"Last year I rented one or two movies a week," said O'Donnell. "I belong to two membership clubs here and one in Overland Park."
Some stores require a $50 deposit for each movie and a $200 deposit on a VCR unit, O'Donnell said.
Having a membership at video rent stores allows the customer to rent movies for a lower cost and without a large deposit, O'Donnell said.
"The interest in renting movies has declined with me, but not for everybody else." Steve Scott, Lawrence junior, said.
Scott began renting movies two years ago and later purchased his own VCR unit. He said he and his roommates rented about 73 movies
Renting movies may be a novelty to some students, but the newness is wearing thin for one student who became involved in the trend two years ago.
Scott said he had seen most of the movies he wanted to see.
Bob Freeman, manager of Popingo Video, 600 Lawrence Ave, said people liked to rent movies because they could see what they wanted when they wanted.
Popoing rents more than 1,200 movies during the average week, Freeman said. Most of those are rented during the weekend.
"The rental business is just starting," he said. "Everybody wants a VCR and only 30 percent of the population has them. It's just the tip of the iceberg."
Most local businesses that rent movies also rent VCR units. The demand for rental units, especially on the weekend, can lead to disappointment for the student who didn't reserve a VCR in advance.
Steve Rhodes, owner of Video Biz,
832 Iowa St. said, "If someone wanted a VCR called on the weekend,
nobody in town would have any."
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