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University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1982
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Racers find their way in woods
By SUSAN O'CONNELL Staff Reporter
The shortest path from one point to another is not always a straight line.
At least not in orientering, a sport where participants use a map to navigate their way through the landscape.
Orienteeing is competitive navigation where racers use only a map and a compass to find their way from point to point, Michael Eglinski, Lawrence sohomore, said Tuesday.
Orienteer Kansas, a Student Union Activities club, consists of about 20 KU students, he said. The club has 50 other members who are not KU students.
THE OBJECT of the race is for the racer to go as fast as possible to each of about 10 points on a special map, Eglinski, president of Oriente Teen Kansas.
The racer uses a topographic map, which is very detailed and shows every cliff, boulder and stream in the area, he said.
The participant must decide whether it is quicker to go over a hill or around it, he said. By using the map, the experienced orienter is able to determine be the best choice to make in various situations.
A control marker, a nylon bag, is placed at designated land features, he said. These features include:
- Dumpsters.
- Tents.
The racer punches his control card with a special device at the checkpoint to prove he made it to each control marker, he said.
FIVE OR SIX different courses are offered at each meet, he said, and all racers in each heat have the same course and begin at one or two-minute intervals to prevent them from following each other. The course varies in length from two kilometers to 10 or 11 kilometers.
A typical beginner course takes an average of 30 to 40 minutes to complete and the typical advanced course takes about one to 1 1/2 hours to complete, he said.
The racers are timed, but the fastest runner does not necessarily win, he said.
You have to use your mind to maximize, not just use your knowledge.
competition, the people are running the whole time.
Gene Wee, program advisor for SUA, said orientering was "the thinking sport."
Wee is a member of Orienteer Kansas and editor for "Orienteering USA," the national magazine for orienters.
ORIENTEERING IS a sport for all levels, he said, and it can be recreational or competitive.
People who orienteer for recreation will walk around the course at a leisurely pace and look at the landscape.
In the races, he said, all the participants have roughly the same ability and are about the same age.
age. The ages of orienteers range from 16 to 50 years old, he said. However, most participants are 19 to 35 years old.
Orienteering is a seasonal sport. In Kansas, the season runs from the end of September to early December, and from mid-February to mid-May, he said.
IN CANADA, he said, people orienteer in the summer.
But the woods are too thick to run through in the summer in this part of the country, he said.
During the season, different clubs organize meets about every other week, and Orienteer Kansas goes away for a meet about once a month, he said.
The club works with the Possum Trot Orienteering Club in the Kansas City area to
THE UNITED STATES Orientering Federation organizes "A" meets, which are big national meetings, he said. The club travels to cities such as St. Louis and Chicago to attend one of the
Doug Whitney, USOF director, said the sport began in Scandinavia around the turn of the century and spread through Europe, arriving in the United States and Canada about 25 years ago.
"It's a pretty small crowd in the nation, probably only about 5,000 people." Eelinski said.
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wider use in the United States, it is very popular in Sweden.
Orientering in Sweden is like baseball in America. he said..
THE SWEDISH O Ringen event, held annually, draws about 20,000 people who orientate for five days, the rain. The event, which has more than 100,000 people, is like an orienteer sports holiday.
Journalists in Sweden announced an enirenterate as the athlete of the year in 1981, he said. Antinen Kringstad, woman's world champion, played with the team of Imar Stemkmark and tennis player Björn Borg.
in the United States, the top three finishers are selected automatically from the inter-collegiate championships held every year to represent the United States in the world championship. Wee said. The fourth- and fifth-place finishers are voted on by the USOF office.
The national competition will be held on Oct.
16-17, be said, and many from Oriente Kansas
in particular. The World Championship is held every two years, he said. The year that this event is not held, the World Student Championship is held.
Wee said the national competition sent four women and four men to the event in Czechoslovakia. Karan competed in an individual race on one day and in a relay on the next day.
Abandon competition, the winner is an international competition for orienteers 20 years old and under. Wee said that Eglinski was the sole representative for the United States this summer in the Junior Team Event at Chur, Switzerland.
Eglinski said the meet was a lot of fun, although he had done some orienteering in England more successfully.
Orienteerine is sponsoring a "Beginner's and Training Meet" at 10 a.m. 30 a.m. Oct. 3 at the Orienteerine Club in New York.
He said the club was also hosting the state championship Nov 21 near Bonner Springs.
championship boxer. 21 more born.
"The key thing about the sport is you don't
know when it's going to happen." We can't.
"There is something for the first-timer as well as the competitors."
Films, lecture open modern art show
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
For the casual observer it can be hard to see the artistic elements of some examples of modern art such as Meret Oppenheim's "Luncheon in Fur," a three-inch replica of a cup and saucer made from animal fur, or Marcel Duchamp's self-portrait in this version of the Mona Lisa with a mustache.
"Although the (modern art) period only lasted from the 1930s until the 1970s, it encompassed many different styles and techniques," Maria Prattman writes. "In his Spencer Stanley of Art, said Tuesday
"It is a self-expressive, spontaneous form of art."
To illustrate the importance of modern art, the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art will sponsor an eight-part TV-film series called "The Shock of the New," which begins today. Prather
me growth and development of modern art," Prather said.
The films will run through Nov. 21.
"It is a high quality series of films that trace
Robert Hughes, art critic for Time magazine, wrote and hosted the series and will speak at 7:30 on Oct. 30 in Woodruff Auditorium.
1me series will be the first of three Modern Art events that will culminate with the opening Oct. 30 of "Modern Abstract Expressionism," an art exhibition of abstract artist paintings, Prather said.
Expressionism taps the inner emotions of the painter, she said. The style began after World War II when surrealist painters fled Paris and settled in New York City.
"It has been called the major American contribution to art," Prather said. "For once Europe was following the lead of American artists instead of the other way around."
"Expressionism is abstract. The artist does the work spontaneously, rather than doing numerous preparatory drawings. The artist discovers the painting while painting it."
Each film will be shown twice a week at 3:30 p.m. on Friday and Sundays in the Spencer Theater.
cover the expense of renting the films, Prather said.
The first segment is titled "The Mechanical Paradise" and deals with modern art and the machine age. Works of Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso will be included in the first film.
Other segments concern modern art and its relationship to politics, propaganda, the senses, architecture, surrealism and the mass media.
"Hughes is opinionated and controversial." Prather said. "He is one of the best speakers around. He will appeal to everyone, not just those in art history."
Hughes's speech will be on "Abstract Expressionism: Myths and Misunderstandings."
Hughes has been an art critic at Time since 1920
A gallery of expressionist paintings will reinforce the information presented in the films and lecture when the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation's exhibit of Abstract Expressionist Paintings opens at Spencer the day of the lecture.
"We've never had anything like it before," she said. "It's going to be a knock out."
Jay Goodman and the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra rehearse for a performance to be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Concert to feature light show
By VINCE HESS
Staff Reporter
A concert on campus this weekend will include a light show, but it won't be a rock concert. It will be the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra fall concert.
The computerized light system in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall will accompany the orchestra on Sunday as it performs music that was specifically written for a light show, George Lawner, professor of fine arts and orchestra conductor, said Wednesday.
The 90-member orchestra, which compires students and faculty, will perform at 3:30 p.m.
Russian composer Alexander Scriabin wrote a musical composition titled "Prometheus (Poem of Fire)" in 1909 and included plans for a "color piano" that had not yet been invented, Lawner said. The keyboard of a color piano activates light rather than music.
Scriabin intended the light to represent the abstract, unlike the colored lights at a stage play which might represent night or a grassy field, Lawner said.
The composition was first performed in Moscow in 1911 after a color piano was built, but the light show, projected onto a screen, was considered a failure. A 1915 performance in New York City also received heavy criticism, Lawner said.
since then, he said, and Scriabin's composition is rarely performed.
"He wanted to combine the arts," Lawner said, "That was new in Scriabin's time, and it still not been fully explored. This is a piece that most musicians know about, but few have seen."
Lawner said he became interested in attempting the light show after he worked last year on the opera, "Bluebeard's Castle," by Bela Lampi. That opera included the use of lights also.
No other composer has written such a piece
The orchestra, Lawner and Glenick Blem, light and stage manager, will have only 3 1/2 hours this weekend to prepare the light show, Lawner said. The computer system will be programmed to respond to events at 90-minute session, Lawner said, and the orchestra will have a two-hour dress rehearsal.
Although the light show will follow Scriabin's plans for the color piano, Lawner said, the show in reality might present problems in the mixing of colors. Red, blue, green, amber and magenta will be shown separately and in combinations at varying intensities. In addition, he said, the orchestra must have enough light to read the music but not be blinded.
"We want to do justice to his spirit, if not his letter." Lawner said.
The orchestra will perform two other works. The concert will begin with "Three Nocturnes" by Claude Debussy, followed by *Variations on a Theme of Lute* by William Gibson and "Prometheus" will follow after an intermission.
On campus
TODAY
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. in
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BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
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MINI RETREAT will be from 6 to 10 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
BOOK FAIR will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fifth floor of Watson Library.
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