University Daily Kansan, September 4. 1980
Page 7
KU museums part of Kansas Fair
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
Representatives of the KU museums of Natural History, Entomology and Invertebrate Paleontology will descend on the State Fair in Hutchinson next week with snakes, insects and fossils.
The museums will at different times occupy an exhibition booth sponsored by University Relations. The exhibits are part of an effort to interest people both in the subject displayed and in the University.
The Museum of Natural History has run an exhibit at the Fair for two years. Joseph Collins, vertebrate zoologist at the Museum of Natural History, said the two live snakes in the museum always attracted attention.
"Any human being crazy enough to stand behind a booth with a live snake is going to attract a crowd," Collins said.
ONE OF THE people to notice that exhibit in 1978 was former Governor Robert Bennett, Collins said.
"Someone in the booth saw him and asked, "Governor Bennett, to pet the bullshake?" Collins Bennett did pet the snake, he said.
"The media went wild," Collins said. "I think this may have brought us to the attention of University Relations."
Another Kansas law was not as friendly with the snakes. Collins said that former Kansas Attorney General Ben Carson next to the KU exhibits one year.
"Curt took one look at what was in our booth and left and never came back," Collins said.
Since the snakes will be touched and handled for hours every day, they must be well behaved, Collins said.
"We generally select animals that are pretty tractable," he said. "I think they develop a sort of stunned
complacency after the first two hours."
COLLINS SAID he received a variety of questions about the smakes, from "Is that poisonous" to tell a boy snake from a girl snake?"
In addition to the live snakes, the exhibit will show color slides of Kansas snakes.
The booth also has a computer that provides information about KU.
Collins said some people didn't even know where the University was.
"I've had some incredible experiences," he said. "I've had people say, 'KU? Is that in Miahattan?'"
The booth helps to interest people in the University, Collins said.
The Natural History Museum exhibit will be at the Fair on Sept. 12 and 13.
The exhibit prepared by the Museum of Entomology in Snow Hall might appeal to an interest in the creepy instead of the crawl.
RICHARD SCHROCK, curatorial assistant at the museum, said a number of exhibits were being
prepared for the Fair, including displays of tropical and Kansas butterflies, African and South American butterflies on a panel on the life cycle of the silk worm.
One of the beetle displays contains an elephant beetle and a rhinoceros beetle, both horned beetles that are about the size of mice.
"Actually, this is our most popular display," Schrock said. "Different people look at different things. The farmers look at the grasshoppers, and the kids look at the butterflies and moths."
THE MUSEUM ALSO has an exhibit showing how insects camouflage themselves and an exhibit containing a sketch of a fossilized dragonfly that had a 27-inch wingspread.
The Entomology Museum exhibit will be at the Fair this Saturday and Sunday.
Free samples of characteristic Kansas fossils will be handed out at the exhibit by the Museum of Inquiry, Al Kamb, Al Kamb, assistant curator, said.
The Invertebrate Paleontology display will be at the Fair Sept. 11.
State tobacco chewers, get ready, aim, spit
Kansas tobacco chewers, get out a chaw and get ready to pickup up—there'll be a tobacco spitting contest at this year's Kansas State Fair tomorrow through Sept. 14 in Hutchinson.
The contest will have two events, an accuracy contest where chewers will aim at a target and a distance contest for the longest snort.
The contest, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, is open to everyone.
Arm wrestlers can compete in a tournament Wednesday. Competitors will wrestle at a scoring contest, and those competing in competitive arm wrestling and the contest will be directed by certified referees. Weigh-in for the five men's
classes and two women's classes will be at noon Wednesday.
Singer Anne Murray will perform at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the grandstand. Other grandstand show feature the Dirt Band on Saturday; trumpeter Al Hirt and his band, Sunday; Charley Pride, Sept. 10; singer Eddie Rabbit, Sept. 11; the Oak Mountain Darvedeels, Sept. 12; Dave Rowland and Sugar, Sept. 13; and Dave Rowland and Sugar, Sept. 14. Tickets for Anne Murray cost from $5 to $8, and tickets for the other shows range from $1 to $5.
Advance tickets for the fair will be $2 for adults and $2.50 at the gate. Advance tickets may be bought at Dillons stores.
Class ticket sales to return
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
Although the traditional preference given to upperclassmen in student football ticket sales was dropped this year as part of a promotional campaign, it will be reinstated next year because ticket sales are moved to the spring.
Details have not been completed, but plans do call for a return to seating preference by seniority, Greg a student body president, said yesterday.
"I have it in writing from the athletic department that it will happen again," Schaekke said.
This year, after seniors bought tickets, sales were opened to all other students in hopes of increasing group sales.
Schneack said he thought group sales had increased, but that students also had shown interest in going back to the old system.
The switch to spring sales also will allow preference to be given by date of purchase, according to Nancy Welsh, athletic ticket manager.
In the spring, Welsh said, tickets will go on sale at a specified date for all students. The athletic seating board, a student group working with the ticket office, will then assign seating during the summer.
all seniors' tickets will be filled first, with priority given by date of purchase. This process will then be repeated for juniors and finally for sophomores. Remaining seats will be available at fall enrollment.
When students return in the fall, they should be able to pick up their tickets at enrollment after paying their fees, Welsh said.
Since students will be buying their tickets the year before, some refund provisions probably will be made for people who purchase tickets in the spring and then decide not to return in the fall. Welsh said.
Schnacke said he hoped moving the sales to the spring would cut down on the long lines seen at the ticket office in the past.
"Also, being able to pick up tickets at an event will make it a lot easier for an employee."
Welsh said she thought the change
would be helpful to the ticket office, too.
"I think it will work out better for us," she said. "Spring sales would even out our workload."
While details of the spring sales will be completed by the ticket office and seating board later in the semester, the campaign for this year's sale wraps up with a kickoff event also held with KU organized living groups to eat dinner and meet students.
In another promotion, dollar-off coupons which lowered ticket prices to $18, were offered to students. From the mass sales at enrollment and at the university Friday, about 5,000 coupons were turned in of 6,000 tickets sold, Welsh said.
These totals did not include sales at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the SUA office at the Kansas Union or the Satellite Union, she said.
Tickets remain on sale at these places until the first home game and will be sold at McColum, Joseph R. Pearson and Gertrude Sellars Pearson residence nights tonight and tomorrow from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Suds flow between washers and bar
By ELIZABETH MORGAN Staff Reporter
More than one kind of suds will be flowing on wash night for launderers, thanks to three Lawrence businessmen.
NEXT TO THE BAR is the Laundromat, or the "Duds" part of the operation. It will contain 20 washers, 20 dryers, carpeting, and air conditioning
Billed by the owners as "Lawrence's only beer joint and Laudromat," Suds and Duds, 2120 W. 25t St., opened in the Holiday Plaza last week.
when it opens in about 10 days. To
be safe, "Sid's" area, there will be no seating.
Only the tavern side is open now, and except for the light blue walls with soap bubbles painted on them it resembles other 3.2 beer taverns, with jukebox, pinball machines, and electronic games.
"Suds" will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight when the Laundromat is open.
the bar and Laundromat are
separated, you can sit in the
lounge can watch their lair
PETE MOORE, an investor in Suds and Duds, said he was certain the idea would work in a college town. He said
One of the special features to be installed is an electronic light system. A light in the bar will connect to each washing machine and flash on when the door is opened, and the customer in the bar know when to put down his beer and change the load.
he and his friends had been kicking around the idea for about three years before he finally decided, "What the hell—it's just do it!"
Moore, a realist, and Pete Harnar,
maintenance supervisor for
Meadowbrook Apartments, are the
investors, and Tom Bell is the
manager. Moore and Bell have had
experience running nightclubs.
Moore ran Bullwinkle's, and Bell ran the Eagles Lodge and Gibraltar's. Moore said he had plans to expand the bubbly business to other college towns.
Not only has the "Suds and Duds" logo been patented, Moore said, in the future, hard-core customers also will be to buy "Suds and Duds" soap.
Thursday, Sept. 4
Seven Samurai
(The Magnificent Sever
Shown uncut for the first time in the United States. Akira Kurosaki's colorful, colorful, ironic saga of seven warriors led by Toshifu Miiture is a great gift of the cinema. 1985 Best Foreign Award Winner (208 min). 8W.K:730.
Friday, Sept. 5
Comes a Horseman
(1078)
in 1945 Wyoming, small farmers Jane Hawkins (1906-2007) and Jason Robards in this beautifully photographed Western, directed by Atan Gilliam, won the Best Feature Film "What's Her Opet." (119 min. Color).
The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1964)
Magical Mystery Tour
Coming Home
Jane Fonda and Jon Volewnt won Academy Awards for their portraits of a radically soldier's wife and a paragon of military discipline in the effects of the Vietnam War on those at home. Bruce Duncan and Robert Carpenter stuck to *Mick Auckum* ("127 min.) color. 3:30, 8:30.
Roll up for the magical extravaganza with the Beatles. The first is the record of songs they wrote and saw live (see if you can guess what George is on) as they sing their early hits. Then climb aboard for "1 Am I the One" and you'll find others in this surreal adventure. (6552 mln.) Plus: "Braverman" Condensed Cream of Beats. Color. 1200 Mild.
Saturday, Sept. 6
Comes a Horseman
3:30-9:30
Coming Home
7:00
The Beatles at Shea Stadium 12:00 Midnight.
Magical Mystery Tour 12:00 Midnight.
Sunday, Sept. 7
The Lacemaker
A charming bittersweet story love about a strong-willed young woman who falls in love with her on vacation but finds herself unable to maintain the Huppert (Violente) is excellent as the young seamless. By Claude Goretta, (108 min). Franchisubtitle
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