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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday September 10,1987 Vol.98,No.14
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Ginsberg reads old, new work
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
The line formed outside the Kansas Union Ballroom an hour before the "guru of the 'just say yes' acid rock generation" stepped on stage.
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But the famous poet needed some help from his enthusiastic followers before he could start reading. An announcer asked the audience if anyone had brought the collected works of Allen Ginsberg. An arm in the first few rows handed a thick, red book up to the stage.
See related stories p. 7.
With that, Allen Ginsberg was ready to begin singing with guitarist Steven Taylor and reading his own poetry — which was witty, political and sometimes unabashedly homosexual — to a crowd of about 700 last night.
Ginsberg has performed before at the University of Kansas, but he said last night's audience was his best ever at KU.
"It was bigger, more enthusiastic. The students are better. I'm better." he said. "There's less resistance. People are more sure of our loves."
Many of Ginsberg's fans in the audience were older than the usual KU student.
A middle-aged man in a gray tweed suit and neatly trimmed gray-fleeced beard said he'd been a Ginsberg fan since the late '60s.
"He was an interesting new voice coming after the conservative '80s," said the man, Larry Epps of Columbia, Mo. Epps graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1973.
Playing around for a cause
Davina Gabriel of Kansas City, Mo. was dressed in a purple paisley outfit and had purple feathers stuck to her skin. She had an abundance of an eye dangled on her forehead.
"I read some of his stuff in college," Gabriel said. "But I didn't really get into it until eight or nine months ago. His writing is so power-
Above, Lisa Rosenberg, Wichita junior, a painte message on part of a huge mural in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Below, fraternity and sorority members play a game of human checkers. These were two of many Greek Week activities held in two days of fund raising for Lawrence Warm Hearts, a local charity organization that assists the needy with heating bills.
Younger people in the audience expressed curiosity about Ginsberg.
"I'll have to claim ignorance about all of this," said James Martin, Lenexa senior. "It's an educational experience."
Wendy Griswold, Topea sophmore, said, "I've read absolutely
See GINSBERG, p. 6, col. 1
Haskell officials say threat of tuition bill harmed enrollment
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
Staff writer
The threat of tuition, along with a scarcity of financing, caused lower enrollments at all three Indian postsecondary schools this fall, administrators from the three schools said.
Haskell Indian Junior College and two other Indian schools still are under the shadow of a Reagan administration proposal that would require their students to pay tuition, school officials said yesterday.
Jean Gibbs, director of admissions and records at Haskell, which is in south Lawrence, said 100 students who had attended Haskell last year did not return this fall. Enrollment is 756. down 43 from last fall.
The required tuition was proposed by Reagan in the spring and rejected by the U.S. House in June. But uncertainty over the proposal's fate had students and officials confused in the spring. Many students inquired whether they would have to pay the推奨 $850 in tuition, Gibbs said
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs pays for students to attend Haskell, leaving students with just a $70 fee for textbooks, dormitory costs and activity fees.
"But I think it's safe to say that the discussion concerning tuition had some impact," he said.
Marvin Buzzard, de student of at Haskell, said it was difficult to tell how much Reagan's proposal had affected enrollment.
some impact, he said
Gibbs said tougher admittance
standards this year also had added to the problem at Haskell. In addition, some students might have found work or been unable to raise enough money to return. Gibbs said.
The House passed a bill on June 25 that blocked the proposed tuition at Haskell and the two other institutions - Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.; and the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe. The House bill also would provide Haskell with $1.25 million for safety repair projects.
At a committee hearing on the bill, U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan, testified before the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee that Haskell could not survive if it charged admission, because 50 percent of its students' families had annual incomes of less than $9,000, said Cynthia Rapp, press secretary for Slattery
however, the House bill still must pass the Senate and be signed into law by Reagan. Rapp said that because the Senate had not yet scheduled review of the bill, it probably would be effective for the spring semester.
Meanwhile, Bob Martin, president of Southwestern, said yesterday that enrollment at his school, too, had dropped — from 502 last fall to 460 this fall.
Charlotte Tenorio, registrar at the Institute of American Indian Art, said enrollment there had decreased from 160 students last fall to 125 this fall.
Bill Skeet KANSAN
Men's glee club loses stipends and singers
Staff writer
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
The KU Men's Glee Club needs new voices because some of last semester's songbirds lost the melody along with their stipends.
membership dropped from 20 last semester to eight this semester after stipends of $100 to the singers were discontinued, said John Clyatt, Lawrence graduate student and Glee Club director.
Club director.
"Now we have eight, which is the absolute minimum for a glee club."
Clytt安说. The club desperately needs more students to join the choir, he said.
I'd like to sing at the homecoming parade, and I'd love to play at football and basketball games, as the club used to do before. But it all depends on whether we get more men in the chair," he said.
in the club. Although the club actually is called Choral Music and students receive one hour credit for it, $100 stipends were paid to last spring's singers by the Thomas and Amy Larrmore Foundation for men in Choral Music to help attract more people to the club. Thomas Larrmore was a former Glee Club director.
The Larremore Foundation, which is administered by the Kansas University Endowment Association, traditionally awards scholarships to male choral singers, said James Ralston, professor of choral music. The Glee Club stipends were awarded last spring because the department of music had some extra money available from the foundation. Ralston said.
"The stipends were a one-shot deal to try to attract singers after years of declined interest in the club," he said.
more and chair member, said that the loss of stipends had contributed to the decreasing membership and that he was said the loss had made studio
said.
Because there wasn't extra money available this fall, the stipends were not offered again, Ralston said.
"We just meet and sing and have a great time together." Leonard said.
Mark Leonard, Lawrence sopho
Although the official add drop
and drop instruction said
students still could enroll.
A glee club is a male chair that specializes in barber shop music. Barber shop is an American popular music form that emerged in turn-of-the-century barber shops, where merchants gathered to sing "Sweet Adeline" and "Good Night Ladies," Clytta said.
"I'll let people enroll in my class at any time in the semester," he said. Students don't have to audition to be in the glee club.
"We also sing classical pieces and University fight songs," he said.
Thomas Larrimore was a KU professor of law and Glee Club director in the 1920s, when the club was at the peak of its popularity with 40 members. Under Larrimore's direction in 1926, the club placed second in the National Glee Club Competition in New York City and members were photographed with President Calvin Coolidge.
Leonard, one of the non-music majors in the choir, said singing in the glee club was a way to get rid of the pressure it is on its performance pressure in this class.
Clyatt said 30 to 60 singers was a good size for a choir.
"A chair that size can give an audience a neat experience," he said. "I've listened to a 120-member choir that made my tears flow."
Cutting the ribbon
The Glee Club was a vital part of the social life on campus up until the early 50s when it temporarily died because of low response from students, Ralston said.
ig Ep members acknowledge alumni for helping to rebuild fire-gutted house
Staff writer
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
"It's unbelievable," said Bryan Rose as he looked at a series of snapshots taped to a wall at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
"When I left last spring, it looked like that," he said as he pointed to a photograph of the fraternity's fire-gutted second floor. "Now look at it."
"It was an incredible chore for them to get us in here by this fall," he said. "We wanted to show our appreciation."
Ken Jones, Sig Ep president, said the ceremony and the dinner that came after was organized to acknowledge the work alumni had done to rebuild the fraternity before school started.
Rose, Hutchinson senior, was among the 130 members, alumni and special guests who attended ribbon-cutting ceremonies last night for the rebuttal and refurbished fraternity at 1645 Tennessee St.
Part of a police barricade tape,
which cordoned off the fraternity after it suffered extensive damage in the April 26 fire, was attached to the ceremonial ribbon.
The fire, which started when an electrical wire overheated in a room refrigerator, caused an estimated
board president. The final minor details should be worked out in the next few months.
— Danny Kaiser
Throughout the summer, construction crews worked at a feverish pace to rebuild the fraternity before school began. On Aug 22, the house was
'A fire like this could kill a fraternity, so it was important that they got back together quickly. I think it was tremendous what they did.'
Danny Kaiser Coordinator for greek programs
"In almost every way, we put everything back into the house in better condition than it was before." Gray said. Along with rebuilding damaged rooms, the fraternity added $200,000 in extra improvements, including a new pitched roof,
$300,000 in damage to the fraternity. In addition to the damage to the building, several members had substantial personal losses. Jones said a few members had personal insurance claims in excess of $10,000.
The fraternity will sponsor an open house between 3 and 5 p.m. Sunday for the public to see the renovation and improvements.
The fraternity had not reached a final settlement with its insurance company, said Tom Gray, alumni
reopened but minor carpentry work continued until this week.
"A fire like this could kill a fraternity, so it was important that they got back together quickly." he said. "I think it was tremendous what they did."
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of organizations and activities and coordinator for Greek programs, was among the KU officials who attended the ceremony and dinner. He complained that the fraternity for reopening so soon.
During last night's ceremony, alumni and guests were given tours of the house. Members were quick to determine a alarm system installed in the house.
Defaced memorial to get more security
KU has no plans to give campus Vietnam memorial extra surveillance
he said. The fraternity's old roof was flat.
By a Kansan reporter
Vandalism at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., has prompted new security measures there, but University of Kansas officials say no extra security is planned for the KU memorial.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police department said that no vandalism had occurred at the KU memorial since an incident a year ago and that she knew of no plans for extra surveillance now.
The stone memorial is in a grassy area between Memorial Drive and the Chi Omega fountain. The memorial was dedicated May 25, 1986. On July 4, 1986, someone defaced the
memorial by writing a slogan on the stone with a black marker.
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'These incidents do tend to make me nervous.'
Thomas Berger, research assistant in the executive vice chancellor's
otte who led the effort to build a Vietnam memorial at KU, said no extra precautions would be taken.
"These incidents do tend to make me nervous," he said.
At the Kansas City memorial sometime last weekend, vandals cut 15 to 20 small chips out of the granite surface of the memorial. No witnesses have been found, and Kansas City police said they were not sure exactly when the damage was done.
Officials of the Kansas City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund said recently that they would place a TV surveillance camera hooked up to a security system at the Kansas City memorial.
Berger said there was a remote chance that the incidents at the Kansas City memorial and the one at KU were related. Anytime something happens there, he said, there's a chance it might happen here.
"We are taking no more precautions or doing any unnecessary worrying more than the worrying we're right now." he said.
In March 1986, swastikas and political slogans were found on the Kansas City memorial. An Oalate man pleaded guilty to that defacuation and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 1,000 hours of community service. He also was ordered to pay $8,000 for the damage.