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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
SUA provides services, entertainment for students
Students work to bring speakers, films and special events to campus
By L. A. RAUCH Special to the Kansan
Despite what some students may think, Student Union Activities does more than show movies cheap. SUA sponsors ski trips, rents camping equipment, hosts speakers such as Kurt Vonnegut, and issues international student I.D. cards.
"SUA is very diverse. There is something for everyone," said Steve Traxler, Overland Park junior and SUA president.
The entire SUA organization consists of a 12-member student board, three faculty advisers and hundreds of committee members. The student board consists of the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and eight committee chairmen.
The SUA budget is devised by the student board, and subject to the budget.
The eight committees are Special Events, Forums, Films, Travel, Fine Arts, Indoor Recreation, Outdoor Recreation and Public Relations.
Program adviser Gene Wee said that SUA dealt with student ideas, implemented by students.
Most people in the organization are KI, students.
One of the most popular aspects of SUA is Special Events, the committee that produces concerts, Traxier said. In recent years SUA has hosted such bands as R.E.M., the Violent Femmers, the Alarm and the Rainmakers.
Special Events Chairman Steve Eddy said a music research committee helped SUA determine what students wanted to hear. Even though SUA is unable to hire some of the more popular bands because they won't play in Lawrence, Eddy said, SUA could bring a varied selection of music to the campus.
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Another popular aspect of SUA, Traxler said, is Forums, the committee in charge of bringing speakers to KU. Three of the speakers hosted by SUA in the 1986-87 school year were Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Wolfe.
- Liz Parker
'The more controversial a speaker is, the more people will hear about him and go. We can't afford Jesse Jackson.'
Forums committee
chairman
"The more controversial a speaker is, the more people will hear about him and go." Parker said. Money is the only factor restricting who she can bring to KU by what she can spend, she said.
"We can't afford Jesse Jackson," Parker said. SUA sometimes works with other University organizations to co-sponsor speakers, she said.
Films hosted by SUA are what the organization is known best for, Wee said. KU has one of the largest university film programs in the country, he said. SUA films are scheduled to be shown Wednesday through Saturday during the next school year.
Liz Parker, Forums committee chairman, said she was seeking political speakers for next school year because 1988 is an election year.
The increased popularity of home videos has caused attendance to decrease in the past year, but the films will continue to run at least four nights a week. Wee said.
The SUA Travel committee also annual student ski trips to Colorado and spring-break trips. SUA travelers have in previous years taken
tries to Vail, Colo., and Padre Island,
Texas. The average cost of a trip last year was $400, and included transportation and lodging costs.
European train passes, youth hostel passes and international student I.D. cards may also be obtained from the SUA Travel committee.
The Indoor Recreation committee organizes clubs for enthusiasts of such games as chess, Strat-o-matic Baseball and Dungeons and Dragons. Annual tournaments for the clubs are sponsored by SUA.
Because of liability and insurance restrictions on athletic competition, the frisbee club, bike club and orienteering club can no longer be associated with the SUA Outdoor Recreation committee. Wee said.
The Outdoor Recreation committee will, however, continue to rent camping equipment to students and organize weekend camping and canoe trips throughout the year.
The SUA Fine Arts committee will host a print sale, a crafts bazaar and
various other artistic events throughout the year. It will also co-sponsor a beat poets' reunion, The River City Reunion, this year in Lawrence. The reunion, to be held Sept. 7 through Sept. 13, will feature group readings, a film series and various musical performances. Noted authors Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary will be on hand for the reunion.
After the seven committees decide what they want to do, it is the responsibility of the SUA Public Relations committee to make sure everyone knows about what is being offered.
Traxler said he welcomed students who wanted to work with SUA. He said it was a goal for the new board to get more students to join the volunteer committees.
"It's a chance to get involved with the University." he said.
The SUA office is located on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
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