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Thursdav. September 18. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Juggler wins crowd with humorous act
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Dana Smith says his favorite place to perform is anywhere 300 people will show up.
"I'm a show-off," he said, dressed in long black shorts, suspenders and purple leg warmers.
Smith, who described himself as a street performer, gave two juggling and acrobatic performances yesterday in front of the Kansas Union.
Smith lives in the San Francisco area and has been taking his act around the United States for 12 years. Before he came to KU he performed in Boston and New York. Student Union Activities sponsored his appearance here.
Smith began yesterday's performance with a trick involving a flaming stick.
"A cheap trick to grab people's attention," he said. "I don't know if anyone will look at a guy wearing purple leg warmers."
He magically batted the flaming stick back and forth with two other sticks. "Isn't this stupid?" he asked
"It's nice to know some of you don't get out too often," Smith said to the sparsely-applauding audience.
But he knows how to get a response, he said, because he's been performing so long.
"I started with a small show doing circus talents," he said.
Smith has since performed for as many as 7,000 people. His most recent exposure was in a Walt Disney production called "The New
Vaudevillians." The show was shot in San Francisco and recently was on television.
From 1974 to 1979. Smith primarily toured colleges. After that, he began performing mostly at nightclubs. He said his visit to KU was refreshing, however.
"Doing an intellectual community is usually a good experience," he said. "They usually appreciate the mind behind the matter."
Though discouraged by an uncertain performing arts career, Smith said the variety show performance intrigued him because he could perform his own material in his own style.
During another trick called "the Chinese rhythm stick," Smith received little amplause.
"People normally applaud during this, but I can see you are not normal," he said, attempting to get the audience into the performance.
Smith then got a roar of laughter as he joked about dropping one of the clubs he was juggling.
"It's good to know you guys like the stupid stuff," he said.
With Smith's encouragement, the crowd began to respond.
Toward the end of the performance, Smith tossed a piece of cloth on the ground and said he was going to pick the cloth up with his teeth while doing a handstand.
"Just as I suspected," he said while standing on his hands, "my teeth aren't long enough."
Margie Chambers/KANSAN
Dana Smith entertained students with his jugging tricks outside the Kansas Union yesterday. SUA sponsored Smith's performance.
Prof says true lover believes he's happy
By COLLEEN SIEBES
To love passionately is to be dead to the world, said a KU professor of psychology.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., sponsors the weekly forum.
Sharon Brehm, author of the book "Intimate Relationships," spoke yesterday at the University Forum on the topic of passionate love.
"The essential ingredient for passionate love is an unattainable imaginary state of perfect happiness," she said.
Passionate love is a psychological process that can be applied to a pursuit of any ideal, she said. The love is not only for a person, but also can be for an art or an object.
Brehm has taught at the University of Kansas for 11 years. She teaches a course on intimate relationships and is presently developing her theory of the psychological processes involved in passionate love.
Brehm said that her theories did guide her life life but that her life experiences did precipitate her interests in studying love relationships.
Passionate love is the process by which people attempt to achieve perfect happiness, she said. Pursuers always are uncertain whether they will achieve perfect happiness. This doubt allows them to keep striving for their ideal. Brehm said.
However, "If the beloved too readily surrenders, the passion won't be full," she said.
People experiencing passionate love deify the beloved. An ordinary person is transformed in the mind of the lover into glittering perfection, she said.
"When a person loves passionately, the world contracts to the beloved and the beloved fills the world," she said. "The lover's ability to perceive reality is impaired."
"People become so attached in pursuit of their ideal they become detached from other things and people.
"It's easy to be nice when you don't care."
Brehm said people experiencing passionate love undergo feelings of euphoria, terror, aggravated depression and despair.
Edward Shaw, professor of physiology and cell biology, said during the speech that the emotional swings, tendencies of self-delusion and obsessions Brehm described of those in love were similar to symptoms of mental illness.
Brehm said passionate love was a type of addiction, but she said that loving was a normal part of the human repertoire.
Brehm said some scientists estimated that the average length of passionate love lasted two years.
However, as long as the lover could maintain a perfected image of the beloved, without ever being confident of achieving it, love could last forever, she said.
The Associated Press
SALINA — A Methodist and a Roman Catholic hospital have agreed to merge into a single organization affiliated with both churches, officials announced Tuesday.
The Catholic St. John's and the Methodist Asbury hospital will keep their names but become branches of Salina Regional Medical Center, a locally owned and operated corporation.
Asbury, with 200 beds and 620 employees, has specialized in in bone surgery, mental health and obstetrics. St John's, with 173 beds and 500 employees, has specialized in the treatment of chemical dependency, eye surgery and cancer treatment.
The two hospitals have discussed a merger for 10 years, during which time they have combined some departments and arranged to share equipment.
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