The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, September 7,1982 Vol.93,No.12 USPS 650-640
BEN BIOLER/Kansan Staff
Minneapolis comedian Bruce Bohne parries for the advantage in a fencing duel with Dean Hanus. Bohne and Hanus perform weekly at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, which opened Saturday. The festival will continue through Oct. 10.
Festival opens 5th year of reliving days of yore
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
The renaissance of the Renaissance. From kissing rats to cure a peasant of the plague to kissing maidens for the pleasure. From parodies of Shakespeare to dramatic acting in the mud.
For the fifth consecutive year Bonner Springs and the Kansas City Art Institute have given birth to a Renaissance Festival, and for the fifth consecutive year the Festival appears to be a success, said Gena Adams, secretary for the Festival.
"We won't have the official numbers until Thursday, but attendance for the first two days was about 15,000," she said. The weekend attendance was a record for the kikuyu.
FESTIVAL
the Festival, open every weekend until October 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., is a lesson in paradox. Lovely lasses in regal robes woe thoroughly modern men in khaki pants and Polo shirts whilz Elizabeth gentlemens dote on tanned women in tank tops.
A UNKORN and ferocious beasties plod about their enclosures and children in Winnie the Pooh outfits smilactic for mom or dad as they focus the camera. Kids brandish wooden swords and shields, revelling in their medieval game. A storyman enthancing tale of frogs, stepmothers and leapers is tiy festival goers call for another Coors.
John Andrews, who has a bachelor's degree in music and voice from the University of Kansas, is presently a singing troubadour at the Festival. He says, "In Dublin fair city, where the girls are so pretty..." as his audience munch on pizza sticks and slurp Coke. "This is the second year I have done the festival and I love it," Andrews said.
Jugglers, magicians, musicians and rogues prowl the streets of the walled city entreating
Dean Hanus, a video games retailer and representative, and Bruce Bohne, an actor, shed their daily routines and leave their homes in Minnesota every weekend of the Festival to present "Puke and Snot," a show by their troupe, Shakespeare for Transients.
even the most distraught to smile at their preacher, while passingats to earn their pay.
"DO THE SHEW because it was the dying wish of my mother," Hanka jokes; as he held out his cup to a passerby and received a bowl about half of our pay come from donations.
The act deals with two men of the Renaissance era who have decided to fight it out because Snot thinks Puke is immoral. As Snot lies wounded and rattles what one must accept as being Shakespeare, he tries to convince Snot's head and says, "E.T. phone home."
Bohne said they worked on the act for about two months before performing it to renaisance festivals across the country. "We've been from Minnesota to San Diego with the act," he said. "We basically just try to have fun."
WORKING FESTIVALS was a welcome change to teaching in a children's acting school, Boehle said, and was more enjoyable than many other acting jobs. "You can really handle Shakespeare," he added, but not of Shakespeare that you would get lumped off the stage with anywhere else."
The hamming it up starts before the festival does. Comely and un-comely lasses and lads stroll casually about before the gates open in the morning and announce in whispered voices that the poet is the Queen's mother, who that the prince takes a living-beared mened.
Good humor, and good times are ordered by royal decree at the Festival as the Festival King ordains at the opening of the gates that say "Bring forth thy smile and wear it."
Senate leaders still hoping for beer sales at ballgames
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
David Welch laughed as he looked down at 11,500-seat Memorial Stadium from a small west window in his Student Senate office in the Kansas University.
Rallis says, "It's going to be another dry season." Welch said of the controversy around selling beer at Jayhawk football games. And that controversy, he said, probably would not go away until beer sales in the stadium become a reality.
It has been almost a year since Welch, student body vice president, and David Adkins, student body president, led the Perspective Coalition to a victory in the 1981 Student Senate elections. And one of their primary campaign promises is, said, was to increase the number of alumni admin- toring to university of Kansas officials that beer sales were not only profitable, but healthy, for KU.
Beer will not be sold at Memorial Stadium this football season. But Welch said he has not — and would not — give up the fight.
"The problem has basically been one of image," Welch said, shaking his head. "There are those people who think that beer in the stadium will mean one big, wild party for them."
But Welch doesn't agree with that logic, and he says a folder in his office — filled with letters from university administrators across the country — has caused he have no added headaches — proves it.
Still, Well conceded that a Senate task force's efforts to study the possibility of selling beer had been put on the back burner during the summer.
summer.
"We haven't done a lot with it since the spring," Welch said, "but that doesn't mean there's been a lack of effort."
there's been a lack of effort.
Welch, who created the task force in January,
said its primary function was to gather
information from other universities that sold
beer in their stadiums. And that work, Welch said, for the most part has been completed.
"We've called and written administrators at Syracuse University, Colorado State University, San Diego State University and a lot of the other schools that sell beer," Welch said. "And their response has been positive."
Welch said copies of all correspondence had been sent to Chancellor A. Budig.
Still, only one Big Eight school — the University of Colorado at Boulder — sells beer during the football season, but Welch said he thought KU would be quick to dispense cereal malte饮料 if a school like Nebraska or Oklahoma approved sales at their ballgames.
"They'd jump at the chance to sell beer if one of those two schools did it," he said. "I just don't think KU is willing to take the lead in something like this."
Budget cuts may quiet debate squad
Wich compared the controversy surrounding stadium beer sales in 1975 Kansas Board of BEER
See BEER page 5
By JEANNE FOY
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The KU debate squad — holder of one of the best records of any competitive team on campus and considered one of the best squads in the— it is in danger of losing its eminence because of budget cuts, the director said yesterday.
yesterday. Donn Parkin, director of forensics, said he was married that the KU debate's budget cut from $17,000 to $8,500 would harm the squad's ability to continue to successfully compete against some of the nation's most prestigious schools.
"We pray that they aren't the really crucial ones," he said.
About three to four teams, each consisting of two students each, are taken to tournaments on a rotating basis, Parson said. Some tournaments would have to be cut from the squad's schedule, he said.
"I'm worried about the future of debate at KU. The budget has been cut in half," he said. "KU's going to have big trouble. We have plenty of talent. We need money.
talent. We need money.
"WEVE CONSIDERED prayer and bank robbery. I don't know how far bake sales would go." Parson said.
The budget is used almost exclusively for traveling, Parson said. The debaters are given transportation, housing, and a modest year-end salary, Parson said, would be very modest indeed.
"There are going to be a lot of skinny debaters on campus this year," he said.
or hamburg.
Although the debate squad usually competes at teams within a 500-mile radius, Parson said, it sometimes travels to either of the coasts. Parson said it would be hard to economize anymore because the squad already drove to tournaments instead of flying.
"You put your rear end in a van and you just travel a long way. It's 90 hours to the west coast," he said.
Parson said he realized that the whole University had been affected by the budget cuts and that debate had been singled out.
HE SAID THE SQUAD was hoping for alumni support and for the state's financial situation to ease.
For the last 10 years, the University has sent two debate teams, the maximum allowed for each university, to the national tournament. Parson said 60 teams out of 1,500 were chosen for the tournament. Since 1970, KIU's teams have placed first twice, three fifth times, and fifth fourth.
In the past 36 years, Parson said, KU has sent 42 teams to the National Debate Tournament, and lost 12.
The two KU teams that were sent to the National Debate tournament last year were both selected at large. Teams selected in this round had to be named by a vote, the son of 16 teams in the nation, Parson said.
See DEBATE page 5
KU committee to rank places that could be cut
Rescissions.
By DEBORAH BAEB
Ever since July, when Gov. John Carlin asked the Kansas Board of Regents to cut university budgets by 4 percent, KU administrators have been using the word daily.
The mention of it can send the calmest of department heads into a frenzy. For at the University of Kansas, "resecisions" is synonymous with budget cuts.
And though the University has already cut $3,177 million from its Lawrence campus budget, Chancellor Gene A. Budig is preparing for more, Richard L. Mann, University director of institutional research, information systems and personnel services, said recently.
The chancellor has appointed a committee to examine all departments not directly connected with academics and research to study the effects future budget cuts would have on the University,
Mann said,
Mann, chairman of the committee, said that if
future cuts were made, they would not be spread evenly across the departments.
Instead, the chancellor wants to make cuts where services can must be spared. Mann said.
**IF* `SUBSEQUENT` cuts are necessary, we'll be using an adaptive (about where we make them).** Main menu.
The directions from Budig are to present him with an array of possible cuts from which he can cut the image.
"The chancellor has asked for a contingency plan in case the worst would happen," he said.
Over the next six to eight weeks, the committee will meet with representatives from the departments it is reviewing. Those representatives present the cuts they would make if they had to, and the effects the cuts would have on students and staff, Mann said.
"This is the kind of thing where you wish somebody would say to you. Go home, we don't need you to do this anymore," Mann said.
"But in one way it's healthy," he said. "It's making the University directors look at their students."
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
The high today will be in mid- to upper 70s with light and variable winds. Low tonight
Tomorrow will be warmer with a high in the low to mid-80s.
Libertarians propose return to 'state of nature'
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of interviews with candidates for local, state and national offices.
Ward works in parts and services in Garnett. He has never held public office. Warren, who has practiced medicine in Wichita for almost 50 years, ran for lieutenant governor on the Socialist ticket in 1948.
military officers
Today's interview is with James H. Ward,
Libertarian candidate for governor, and his
running mate, Dwrt Wirt Warren of Wichita.
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Libertarian James H. Ward says he is running for governor of Kansas to represent the most abused minority in the country — the individual
"individuals are burdened by excessive government interference in their lives. It's a concept that's been around a good long time and is close in ideology to the Jeffersonian party."
The Libertarian party in Kansas, which Ward helped form in 1974, is based on a national party platform that challenges the "cult of the eminent state." Ideally, it proposes the abolition of most taxes and the return as closely as possible to a state of nature.
housed mainly in Topeka. The Libertarians are the only party of principle on the ticket, "Ward said in a recent interview in Topeka.
in possession of a knife or a firearm,
Not surprisingly, Ward and his running mate.
Dr. Wirt Warren of Wichita, have a different approach to the state's economic woes than those ideas proposed by Republican Sam Hardage or incumbent Democrat John Carlin.
ONCE TAXATION is lifted, Ward says the individual will voluntarily subsidize education, the poor and government-aided programs, while what is left of the government structure can be financed through lotteries or private contributions.
"No tax is a good tax," Ward said, dismissing Gov. Carlin's proposal of a severance tax on oil and natural gas. "It's your money, you work hard to pay it, so you should attend the war you want to."
"If it's worth doing, people will pay for it," he said. "Education was there long before government financed it."
He proposed that the present higher level education program be abolished in favor of less structured, private institutions.
"There is too much time spent running from this class to that class and too much time spent on non-educational items, like social intercourse."
Ward also said the government was unsees-
sarily involved in the maintenance of roads and
bridges, which he suggests could be owned and
maintained by large oil companies.
"YOU DON'T LIKE a company's roads, then you won't use their gas," he said.
"Take a look at the railroads. They maintain themself as."
"We will say, we've got the wheat, if you want to buy, buy from us," he said. "The farmer works hard driving his tractor every day and then returns it — we believe he can right to sell his property."
He said, as governor, he also would actively oppose any federal restrictions on export markets for grain.
"We'll take it to court if we have to. The definition of private ownership is not government ownership."
"Every party says they will lower taxes. Our point of view is that taxes should be eliminated to the bare minimum." The Libertarian platform advocates elimination of the draft, volunteer jury duty, repeal of the Social Security system, reduction of Department of Agriculture, withdrawal from the United Nations, and a policy of non-intervention in foreign countries.
THE PARTY OPPOSES all government welfare and "aid-to-the-poor" programs, which it considers to be inefficient and privacy-invading. The Libertarians do not believe in laws forbidding the "victimless" crimes such as gang rape, institution, and the sale and production of drugs.
Capital punishment, a controversial issue in the governor's race, is justifiable only if the death of a victim resulted from the crime, Ward said.
Warren. candidate for lieutenant governor.
said libertarianism was a logical conclusion for him after a lifetime of investigating different political philosophies.
"I ran for lieutenant governor on the Socialist ticket in 1840, so some may call this a complete reversal." he said. "From collectivism to one of our greatest principles," Mr. Marx himself said the state must dwindle now.
Warren said that he disagrees with Americans who believe the economy is in bad condition.
"TIM OPTIMISTIC, not pessimistic," he said. "Why don't they say there are 90.5 percent employed, rather than 9.5 percent unemployed?" He added that the economy the economy, the economy will straighten itself out."
Warren, an agnostic, said a Libertarian government would work only with philanthropic leaders who could detach themselves completely from any religious convictions.
"I know this all sounds like a visionary and utopian view." Warren said. "I recognize that this requires a council of intelligent, knowledgeable statesman who will implement the plan logically, consistently, carefully. Of course, it's anarchism."
Warren said he thought his party's chances for winning the election were "1 in 1,000."
BUT HIS gubernatorial running mate has a more optimistic picture of the November election than most people. "diseasedfranchised 85 percent" of Kansasans who are not expected to vote this fall.
Jim Ward