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Foam pops dance parties' bubbles
By Annie McEnroe correspondent@kansan.com Kansan correspondent
Foam is not just for bubble baths anymore. For years, tales of nearly naked mobs grinding and taking advantage of reduced visibility in neck-deep pits of suds have trickled into the Midwest from both coasts and vacation spots in Mexico. But after a few pioneering attempts at recreating the spectacle in Lawrence, sponsors concluded that foam parties here may always be squeaky clean.
The young tradition of toam parties at the University of Kansas began in 2000 when Pat Laufenburger, Overland Park senior and Sigma Chi fraternity member, went in with several friends to purchase a foam machine.
Laufenburger's equipment, consisting of two long tubes designed to shower streams of bubbles into a pit below, debuted at a Bid Day party with the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at TeePee Junction north of Lawrence. It didn't live up to expectations, producing inches of foam instead of feet.
"I was like, That's it? That's the foam machine?" said Lindsay Campbell. Holcomb senior and Alpha Chi Omega member.
With familiar faces all around and foam coverage only shin-deep, dancers were reluctant to shed inhibitions or soggy clothes.
tatt to shed immature eaggge "What I had heard about before was people having sex in foam pits and stuff, but obviously that wasn't going to happen at our function," said Courtney Jakowitz, Albuquerque, N.M., senior, and sorority member.
The machine relocated to the Granada for two parties in 2003. Although each event drew crowds of around 400 people, they failed to provoke any truly MTV-worthy behavior.
Andy Haskins, Fremont, Neb., senior, and Sigma Chi member, said people were merely dancing behind the foam pit and occasionally playing around in it.
Lawrence's midwestern location and college-town environment seem to keep dirty dancing in check at local foam parties.
"I think it's a thing kids do if they're where they feel comfortable to be more crazy," Granada employee Brandon McKeever said. "Here, they have friends, and if they found out, it might ruin their reputations. For the most part, it's something that's going to go over big in spring break destinations."
**situation:** More clothing and less body contact,
that is, more for a bad time.
especially at a Granada party in July.
was there. Besides an overall good time, foam parties also offer a cleansmelling venue for days afterward.
"People were coming in and having fun dancing in the foam that seemed to be what they wanted to do," McKeever said. "The DJ did a good job of keeping everybody happy. The vibe was there."
Encouraged by the growing popularity of recent foam parties in town, both the Granada and Sigma Chi want to organize another sometime this fall.
As innocent as past events have
been in Lawrence, the Granada's security guards may be the only ones opposed.
McKeever has experience dismantling foam pits and mopping up soapy water from past events.
"The cleanup isn't very sexy," McKeever said.
Edited by Dave Nobles
Drunken encounters often prove sobering
By Jonathan Kealing correspondent@kansan.com Kansan correspondent
Almost4,100 freshmen arrived on campus this August. Most of them had never hit the college party scene before.
Kegs full of beer, trays packed high with Jell-O shots and all sorts of alcoholic concoctions abound.
the mix of alcohol and raging hormones influences students to make bad decisions. Often, this may include having sex with someone that one just met 30 minutes or an hour before.
Some students are content with this decision, while others instantly regret what they have done.
Tyler Henn, Overland Park freshman, was at a party where a girl under the influence asked to make out with him.
make out with him.
"I thought it was kind of different but I had been drinking, too, so I went for it," he said. "That's just something that doesn't happen when you're sober."
per whinery.
But, not all drunken liaisons end as simply as that. Sometimes the encounter comes with disappointment at the least, if not hurt feelings and lots of baggage.
Kathanna Culp, Tuscaloosa, Ala., sophomore, said having
drunken sex made her feel a little cheaper. She said she was content with her decisions when having sober sex, though.
Culp lost a boyfriend over one drunken mistake. Beyond that, she hurt a friendship and made her own life more difficult.
Most college students have never had the amount of freedom that they are given when they come to school. No one is looking over their shoulders, and no one is there to tell them what is right and wrong.
and wrong.
A recent survey by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention indicates that among students, almost 25 percent were intoxicated at the time of their last sexual experience. Also according to the study, males were two-thirds more likely to have been drinking prior to engaging in a sexual act.
Mia Mulch, Burlington, Iowa freshman, gave advice to one of her friends who engaged in sexual intercourse while intoxicated. Mulch told her to live life without regrets and be smarter next time or live with her choices.
"She was kind of mad that I didn't sympathize with her, but I think she realized that what she had done was a mistake," Mulch said.
Heard on the Hill
Edited by Ehren Meditz
"I think the ROTC program is sexy. Men in uniforms get me goin'!" Brooke Beatson Olathe freshman
What's the sexiest major?
"Accounting because it involves money, and
"Massage
therapy There's nothing like women
Compiled by Abby French
money's sexy."
Chris Bowden
Wichita freshman
with man hands!"
Joe Sopha
Olathe junior
"Business is the sexiest major due to a woman's look when
she puts a pen in her mouth and plays with it."
Shay Choudhury Olathe freshman