Tuesday, December 9. 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 8
Canterbury House to ring in Christmas with holiday service
By Gwen Olson golson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Tonight at the Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St., students and staff will gather together to ring in the holidays with scripture and music.
The sixth annual Candles and Carols will begin at 7:15 p.m. The service is sponsored by Canterbury House, University Christian Fellowship, United Methodist Ministries and Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Canterbury House is a student living organization sponsored by Episcopalian and Lutheran ministries.
Thad Holcombe, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said the service would feature student musicians and student readers.
He said students would read scriptures and sing carols between each reading. The songs will also be accompanied by violin, flute and piano players.
"We are trying to offer a service that is specifically connected to Christmas," Holcombe said. "The Canterbury Chapel is also a beautiful place to hold it."
The service will be held in the St. Anselm Chapel in the house. Holcombe said the service would consist of several readings that discuss the traditional story of Christmas, from Christ's birth through the Epiphany.
Holcombe said the service also would feature the lighting of the candles on the Advent wreath. The service will be followed by a reception.
He said the event had been successful during the past few years. Attendance has ranged from 20 to 80 people.
Christmas Kumbayah
6th Annual Candles and Carols:
When: 7:15 tonight in the St. Anselm Chapel at the Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St.
What: A non-denominational religious service with readings about the traditional story of Christmas and songs. There will also be a lighting of the Advent candles. The service will be followed by a reception.
The service is open to the public.
For more information call Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 842.4933
Connie Lunn, administrative assistant for the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said she thought students had enjoyed the event in the past.
"It's an early Christmas thing for students," she said. "It's a tradition for the campus ministries to hold it every year, and students find it helpful, especially before finals."
Clark Mitchell, Arkadelphia, Ark., senior and Canterbury House administrator, said the service was open to all denominations.
"It's an ecumenical event that we've done over the last few years," he said. "It's semitraditional, but it doesn't follow any set religious division."
Mitchell said he hoped the service would give students a chance to celebrate the coming holidays and help them get through the weeks before the break.
"We're hoping that this can be kind of a pre-final celebration of Advent," he said. "All of our churches celebrate Advent, and this is the season of Advent. It's the time of quiet meditative anticipation before Christmas."
Fruitcake with a different taste defies the tradition of dreaded Yuletide gift
Rv Ann Pramer
apremer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Fruitcake — a traditionally despised Christmas gift — is making a comeback in Lawrence.
Don and Maria Martin began making fruitcakes in Lawrence in 1995. They revived a famous family recipe originally used by Don Martin's grandfather, Carl Drake, who owned Drake's Bakery. The store opened on Massachusetts Street in 1928 and closed in the late 1970s.
Maria Martin, who also works as the public relations coordinator for the Anthropology Museum, said her husband convinced her to help him make a batch of fruitcakes to prove that his grandfather's recipe made a tasty cake.
"I told him, 'People don't really eat fruitcake. do they?" she said.
After she tried the fruitcake, she was conviced her husband was right. They gave fruitcakes to their family members as gifts and later decided to put the fruitcake on the market.
The fruitcakes are sold primarily in stores in northeast Kansas and Kansas City, Mo. This year the cakes are being distributed nationwide through mail-order sales.
"It's nice to bring back something that was a Lawrence tradition," Maria Martin said.
Gunda Hiebert, co-owner of The Bay Leaf, 725 Massachusetts St., said she had carried Drake's fruitcake in her store for three years.
"It's one of those fruitcakes that people don't regive," Hiebert said. "People actually eat it."
Hiebert said the store sold more than 300 fruitcakes during the holiday season.
Deb Jennings, Bay Leaf employee,
said even people who usually hated
fruitcake liked Drake's fruitcake.
Common ingredients in fruitcake include cherries, pineapple, dates, pecans and raisins. Drake's recipe leaves out the traditional liquor and citron — the two ingredients that Hlebert said result in the taste
that people generally don't like in fruitcake.
Siohban Doran, executive assistant at Walgreens Drug Store, 400 W. 23rd St., said the store sold about three fruitcakes each week. She said even though it wasn't a big
seller, the store carried it for those who wanted it.
Doran said that she had tried fruitcake and didn't like it.
"I don't eat fruitcake at all," Doran said. "It's like bread with a bunch of lumps in it. It's really sweet."
Vacated residence halls should be safe from thefts if students follow housing security safety hints
By Sarah McWilliams
mcwilliams@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Kansan staff writer
When the majority of the 4,486 residents who live in KU campus residence halls, scholarship halls and Jayhawker Towers take off for the winter break, they won't have to worry about the safety of their stuff, housing officials said.
"Generally the tradition has been that once a room has been locked it's pretty well secure," said Fred McElhenie, associate director of student housing.
McElhenie said that during winter break last year there were some isolated incidents of theft at residence halls but that they generally were uncommon.
The most notable of these incidents occurred on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in McColm Hall when someone flooded the basement, damaged an elevator and stole master keys to the building. Total damages for this isolated incident was estimated at $11,000.
McElhenie said he could not comment further on last year's incident. To deter thefts, McElhenie said, housing security staff informs students to lock their doors behind them when they leave. As soon as the halls close on Dec. 18, the staff in the department will make their annual room checks.
Lewis and McCollum halls will remain open during the break so international students can live there. Stouffer Place apartments will remain open.
In other residence halls, security staff will check rooms once to make sure that the heat is turned down to low and that the windows are closed, McElhenie said. After that, all outside entrances to the halls are locked.
The staff will make sure that students have left electrical appliances like televisions and compact disc players unplugged to prevent fire hazards.
to come back and find a deceased creature floating at the top of its owl. The housing department has had only isolated incidents of theft in the past year, McElhennie said. He said that although housing staff numbers are more limited during the break, the custodial and maintenance workers in the department work right up until Christmas and keep an eye on the buildings.
If someone were caught vandalizing or stealing, the department of student housing would take punishments on a case-by-case basis, he said. The department would also notify the KU police, McElhenie said.
"If we catch someone it would be a pretty severe sanction." he said.
"If we catch someone it would be a pretty severe sanction," he said. Jayhawker Towers will reopen on Jan. 5. Residence and scholarship halls will reopen Jan. 7.
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