Thursday Features
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Aug, 29, 1985
Anything goes for fall campus fashions
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Returning KU students sported everything from short shorts to sweaters on campus this week, and the unseasonably cool temperatures were responsible, said Lawrence retailers.
"The thermometer is pushing fall a little bit earlier this year," said Jared Hisey, district manager of Scots, 919 Sherwood St. and Carousel, 711 Edsal St.
"People are probably thinking more fast because it's cooler for learning."
Nevertheless, students can still be seen on campus in shorts and T-shirts. Summer clothes are also in demand at area stores during this transitional period between summer and fall.
Livingston said the most popular items at Litwin's now were Hawaiian Jams. These are knee length, bright print shorts with a drawstring top.
"Jams are unisex," Livingston said "Everyone buys them. We've sold so many, I couldn't believe what we were carrying out of here last week."
Jams aren't restricted to summertime wear. Livingston said. Students were snapping them up all year, and in January he sold out of the shorts when there was snow on the ground.
Hisey said that the shorts also were popular at Scots and Carousel. She said other women's clothes that were popular now were cropped and printed pants, as well as oversized tops. Her biggest sellers are stirrup pants and mini skirts.
Trends for fall clothes include paisley prints and clothes with varsity striping and letter sweaters, Hissey said. Mixing prints and patterns is popular, as are big jackets and bright colors.
"Fuchsia and bright blue are popular," she said. "Clothes with a cabbage rose print, floral tapestry and brocade-looking things are in, too. Natural fibers such as cotton, linen, and wool are the most popular among students."
Both Hisey and Livingston said that skirt lengths varied from mini skirts to ankle-length. "It's anybody's guess." Livingston said.
"Jeans are still popular, but they have been cleaned up this fall." Livingston said. "We're going back to the basic jean. We've taken off the snaps, flaps, pockets and whistles. They aren't the gaudy, off-the-wall we saw last fall. Those were interesting, but they didn't last long."
Accessories are a vital part of student's fall wardrobe, said Jill Legler, manager of Sunflower International in the Casab Shops, 803 Massachusetts St. Brass jewelry, especially bracelets and sashes are the most popular items she sells.
Judy Browder, an employee at Natural Way Fine Gifts and Exotic Jewelry, 820 Massachusetts St., said all types of earrings were being sold.
"Fun, cheap and silly earrings are in," she said. "Students are buying those and wearing different earrings in the same ear. Some are buying the classic earrings, too."
Both Legler and Browder said large, straw purses from Kenya were a popular item with students. "They are good for students because you can put everything but the kitchen sink in them," Browder said.
George Frazer, Overland Park sophomore, in top photo, says he is psychicaled and not punk. At left, Jill Morgan, Lawrence High school junior, models one of the preppy fashions at Scots ladies apparel. Above, Jams are popular on campus. From left are Eric Cox, Overland park freshman, Tom Rietz, Chicago sophomore; Brian Winn, Omaha freshman; and Geoff Southwell, Lenexa freshman.
Photos by Maritza Vazquez/KAN5AN
--and New Mexico, prints shirts to sell before concerts.
On Tap
Nancy Haney
Peggy Helsel
Renaissance Festival — Take a step back in time at the Renaissance Festival this weekend. Visitors can eat, drink and be merry with dancers, craftsmen and festival royalty through the Labor Day weekend. The annual festival opens at 1 a.m. at the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bomar Springs and will continue every weekend through Oct. 6. Student tickets can be bought at the SUA office in the Kansas Union or at the festival gate for $7.55.
Pepsi Walk thru Rock — A traveling rock history show will open in Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 11 at Bartle Hall. The show claims to have the most comprehensive collection of rock film, music and memorabilia ever assembled and will combine the visual effects of large screen projection, live entertainment and a museum to trace the 30-year evolution of rock music. The show will run through Sept. 15 and is the beginning of a 24-city North American tour.
Concerts -
The Jazzhaus, 926
Massachusetts St., is presenting
Jimi Mamou tonight and Luther
"Guitar Jr." Johnson tomorrow
and Saturday nights. Both shows
begin at 9 p.m. There is a $2 cover
charge for tonight and $4 for the
weekend shows.
Southern Freight will play at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., tonight at 9. There is a $1 cover charge.
Guitarist and singer Brett Hodges performs tomorrow night at Up and Under, 403 N. Second St. The performance is free and will begin at 10 p.m.
Tickets for the progressive rock band, X, based in Los Angeles, go on sale tomorrow at 8 a.m. at the SUA box office of the Union and Capitol Ticket outlets. The nationally known band will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Tickets are $9 with a student ID and $10 in advance to the public. It is the first of a series of concerts sponsored by SUA and Redline Productions featuring nationally known groups.
Sting, the former Police lead singer now making a solo swing across the country, will touch down in Bonner Springs, Kan., for a concert at 8 p.m., Aug. 31, at Sandstone Amphitheatre. Tickets are $15.50 reserved and $14.50 for general admission, available at Omni Electronics, "540 Fireside Court. Sting has tempered his rock style sound with a jazz flavor for his latest album, "The Dream of the Blue Turtles," and is backed up by Bransford Marsalis on saxophone, Omar Hakim on drums, Kenny Kirkland on keyboards and Darryl Jones on bass.
Manhattan Transfer will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday at Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. Tickets are $15 and are available at Omni Electronics.
The Grateful Dead will play at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 at Starlight Theatre. Tickets are $14.50 and are available at Omni Electronics.
Blind prof sheds light in sleep, dreams class
In the darkened office of 41 Fraser Hall, King, a German shepherd...growled menacingly and/or interrupted his master's work.
Charles Hallenbeck, King's master, is a professor of psychology who not only works in the dark, but has lived in it since an accident blinded him in high school.
However, this handicap has not proved insurmountable for Hallenbeck, 54, who is teaching Psychology 322, Psychology of Behavior 796, Computer Models of Behavior, this semester.
"The problems I have teaching are largely mechanical ones," Hallenbeck said. "But if you use your imagination, you can work around most of them."
"I use alternative techniques," he said. "I use tape recordings of textbooks, although I prefer to read in Braille. But Braille is bulky and there is not much available."
One problem a teacher without sight has is grading his students' papers.
"Because of the size of the sleep and dreaming class, I have been provided with a TA," he said of the class which is closed with an enrollment of 120. "The other smaller classes that I teach are project-oriented. The exams take home exams and someone tape records them for me."
Hallenbeck has taught at the University of Kansas since 1969 and has taught the sleep and dreaming class since 1979.
He attributes the popularity of the sleep and dreaming class to the desire of students to interpret their dreams.
"Many students find the class holds the promise of insight into their own dreams and their own lives." Hallenbeck said. "They take the class because they believe they can find the true answers. You should always be suspicious of true answers."
Hallenbeck's two real lives in psychology are brain science, dealing with brain damage and rehabilitation, and computing applications in psychology. His dream is to teach a class titled "Computer Computers," combining his two favorite areas of study.
He said that through the class, he encouraged students to be their own experts about their dreams because they tended to believe themselves rather than others.
"This class also improves your self-knowledge and self-interest more than most areas of psychology." he said.
"I enjoy working with students." he said. "It's exciting to observe someone who is learning something for the first time."
However; he enjoys teaching his psychology classes and doesn't seem to let his lack of sight bother him.
Grateful Dead following lives in '80s
By Ineresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Of the Kansan staff
The wet heads may be dead, but dead heads are alive and well, and are eagerly awaiting Saturday's Grateful Dead concert in Kansas City, Mo.
Many fans say that the cultlike group of Grateful Dead followers, or "dead heads," are like flower children caught in a 1980s time warp, although all may not look like throwbacks to that decade. Dead heads come in all forms, from preppies to hippies.
Seven thousand of the 8,500 tickets available have already been sold for the Starlight Theatre production, according to Millie Ortiguero, publicist for New West Presentations, the organization promoting the Kansas City concert.
The band has maintained its diverse cult following for 20 years, even though the era that bred its brand of music has passed, and it never recorded a hit single.
One fan said that freedom of expression, a trademark of hippies from the 1960s, was a trait accepted by dead heads today.
"You can do whatever you want or wear whatever you want at a Dead concert," Jill Garland, Chicago sophomore and self-proclaimed dead head, last week "People don't care. It just doesn't matter."
Although drug use is prevalent at Grateful Dead concerts, promoters aren't worried about the crowd getting too rowdy.
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"People come to listen to the music." Ortiguero said. "Even though we expect a sellout, we don't anticipate any crowd problems."
The variety of Grateful Dead music attracts a diversity of listeners, which partially accounts for the survival of the band and its large following. The Grateful Dead regularly draws thousands of fans to sold-out concerts.
"Variety is the name of the game," said dead head Kent Griswold, Rockford, Ill., junior. "They play such a diversity of music that there are songs that please everybody."
The Grateful Dead has a repertoire of folk, rock, country and western, ragtime and blues songs. Yet it's one of the variety that makes this band special.
"The Dead is more human than other groups." Griswald said. "And
Other dead heads described Grateful Dead music as spontaneous, flowing, natural and basic.
'Yippies turned yuppies are seeing the Dead.'
—Jeff Blum 'dead head'
"Nobody plays as much as they do." Garland said.
Jeff Blum, Evansten, Ill., sophmore, said that since the group had such an extensive number of songs to choose from, it averaged playing the same song once in six concerts.
The group has been known to play for more than eight hours at a time, while other groups usually play for two hours.
Cook, who has seen Grateful Dead concerts several times in Colorado
"I wouldn't follow any other group because all their concerts are similar," Garland said. "The Grateful Dead is always different."
Many Grateful Dead fans follow the group around the country to revel in the atmosphere and enjoy the music. In order to afford this, some fans set up impromptu flea markets near the concert site. Once again, variety is the name of the game as dead heads sell and trade shirts, stickers, oranges, bagels and avocado sandwiches.
"I sell tie-dyes and OP-style shirts for $10 to $20 so I can afford the concerts," Cook said. "If I travel to see them, I just have to make more shirts."
Surprisingly, many of these diehard groupies were still in diapers when the Grateful Dead began playing in 1965, but the band still maintains many of its original followers.
"Wippies turned yuppies are seeing the dead." Blum said.
Garland attributed the young following to the band's status as a tradition, and she described the concerts as "a travel through time."
Diversity is also apparent in Grateful Dead crowds, as teenagers are not the only fans. Members of the audience as old as 70 years and as young as toddlers were reported to have attended concerts.
Because of the diversity, anyone can qualify to be a dead head.
"You can tell a dead head when he has a record collection that looks like this." Cook said as he set down a crate filled with over 40 Grateful Holder records, which wove bootleg, or illegally recorded, tapes from concerts.
Garland said someone becomes a dead head when he calls himself one. Calm: ld agreed.
"It is freedom of speech," Griswold said. "If they like the Dead, that's enough."