University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 23, 1987
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THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
"Well, here we go, another exciting evening at the Murdocks, all of us sitting around going, 'Hello, my name is so-and-so. ... What's your name? ... I wanna cracker? Hello, my name is so-and-so.
Sci-fi club plans show
By JULI A. WALZ Special to the Kansan
It was Monday night, backstage at Convention Headquarters. About half of the people in the Walnut Room at Union Union had their feet up on the tables.
The people on one side of the room were trying to discuss the forthcoming science fiction convention while another group was debated about new science fiction books.
At the front of the room, the president and the secretary of the Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction were vainly trying to get everyone talking about the same subject.
"The meeting is now called to chaos," said Devan Monroe, West Fork, Ark., junior and president of the club.
Out of that chaos emerged Confabulation '87, a convention for science fiction fans.
The convention will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow on the fourth floor of Wescoe. Organizers hope to attract Lawrence residents, KU students and science fiction fans from other parts of the country.
What interests most fans about the convention is the scheduling of guests. Planning for this is done at
club meetings, where members brainstorm suggestions for people they'd like to see at the convention.
According to the convention planning committee, this year's guests included
- James Gunn, science fiction author and professor of English at KU.
Frank Brown, a specialist in computer Artificial Intelligence.
Mark Wallace, artist for Equine
Unicivilized, a Canadian combo
book.
Bill Underwood, author of the fantasy role-playing game, Beast Amidst the Rain.
Scheduling guests is the easy part, according to the committee. The hard part is getting people to come to Confabulation 87.
Club members plan to attract guests by sending out fliers to other science fiction conventions around the country.
The committee also sent out notices to the people who came to the convention last year to try to encourage them to buy memberships for this year.
"When you go to a convention, you don't buy a ticket, you buy a membership," said club member Greg Tobin, Lenexa junior.
Campus/Area
Entertainer's show is satire, protest
By BRIAN BARESCH
Political satirist David Lippman performs his version of a John Denver hit. Lippman sang his "Thank God I'm A Contra Boy" in front of a map of the world, which he says is slightly tilted to the left. Lippman entertained about 75 people last night during the Latin American Solidarity meeting at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1024 Oak Drive.
Fred Sadowski—KANSAN
Staff writer
Traveling folk singer Dave Lippman and his alter ego, anti-folk singer George Schrub of the Committee to Intervene Anywhere, took the stage in the edictary U.S. involvement in Central America and to satirize the right wing.
About 70 people saw Lippman's combination of humor and protest at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread. The show was a benefit for KU's Latin American Solidarity. Tickets cost $4.
"We'll be doing some consciousness-abbreviation," Lippman-asch Schildr told the approving audience. Gence-fronted gence-free zone here in Lawrence."
Lippman, who wore a gray suit with a camouflage tie and handkerchief and mirrored sunglasses for his stint as Schrub, frequently sang satirical songs while playing the guitar.
"We arm the world," he sang. "We
wear a shirt, a brighter day for our investments."
Scrub used a map of the world for illustration, pointing at trouble spots where children can be found.
“And then there’s Vietnam, but you don’t need to know about that.” he said. “Those who don’t understand it will have the opportunity to repeat it.”
"El Salvador's election was not rigged, we bought it fair and square," he continued, "there were two candidates in the election, and that is just the Air Force."
Between songs such as "Thank God I'm a Contra Boy," "Give Me Aesel the Imperial Girl," Schrub reminded the audience just what he was after.
"It's a big, wide, beautiful world," he said, "but we're working on it."
Lippman then traded his G-man suit for jeans and a peasant shirt, and traded his satire for serious protest. Accenting his songs with slides of Nicaraguan and Salvadorian villages, Lippman sang and talked about the conditions the region's poor were living under while the wars were
going on, mixing wry humor with sadness and hope.
"Mothers please don't send your sons, they will fall before our guns," he sang.
Lippman was in Nicaragua $1 \frac{1}{2}$ years ago during the coffee harvest, and spend last Christmas in El Salvador. His books were mostly of poor
but smiling children and villagers.
Lippman said the mayor of one town he went through was tortured shortly after his group passed the law, and that some kind of life in Central America, he said.
"Now I have to look real closely at the newspaper photos to see if they've done it to any of my friends," he said.
Briefs
Man charged with assault in incident
Accident victim is still in hospital
Two Haskell Indian Junior College students were arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges of carrying concealed weapons, drug use. One of the students also was charged with aggravated assault.
According to police, the two 22-year-old students had threatened another student at Osceola-Kea camp in a dispute about a pool game.
The student charged with carrying a concealed weapon and aggravated assault was released on a charge, the student was released yesterday without being charged, a Douglas County Court clerk said.
Eric William Lienhard, Lawrence senior, who suffered a head injury in an one-car accident Oct. 10 at 15th and Westbrooke streets, remained in serious condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.
Student granted continuance in case
The trial of a KU student who was charged with reckless driving and driving under the influence in a May accident that left three other students injured, has been postponed again.
Lawrence Municipal Court. All-Admittd was to appear today at 8 a.m. after his lawyer had requested a continuance in September.
Alldritt was the driver of the car that struck three cars parked in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue early May 5.
The court appearance for Eldon Aldritt, Wichita junior, has been postponed until 8 a.m. Nov. 6 in the
Student still is in serious condition
John Hinshaw, Hutchinson junior, remained in serious condition at the University of Kansas where he met yesterday, a hospital spokesman said.
Hinshaw's forearm was severed in a motorcycle accident at 15th and Westbrook streets Saturday. His arm was reattached in an operation. The spokesman said there have been no complications from the surgeries.
The cyclist who left the scene was arrested Monday afternoon on charges of attempting to elude a police officer, reckless driving, drunk driving, and license and falsifying an accident report. He will be arraigned Nov 4.
City youth injured in 2-vehicle wreck
Terrence Atkinson Jr., 15, 2712 Freedom Hill Court, suffered a fractured left leg Wednesday after his moped was hit by a car driven by a white White, 28, Sunction City sophomore, Lawrence police reported.
Atkinson was transported by the Douglas County Ambulance Service to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in later days, listed in fair condition yesterday.