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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 24.1997
Jaybowl rolls out bands for techno ball
Glow in the Dark bowling will be going on at the Jaybowl. Two live bands will also be performing starting at 9pm tonight.
by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
By Corrie Moore
cmoreo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
If students are looking for something different to do tonight, they might want to trade in their dancing shoes for some bowling shoes.
Local band The Believe It Or Nots perform about 9:30 p.m. followed by Half Track.
The Jaybowl and Student Union Activities are presenting technobowling along with live music and freepool at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union. The glow in the dark bowling lasts from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Greg Franklin, Olathe junior and guitarist for The Believe It Or Nots, said it was a good idea for friends to get together to bowl and listen to some live music.
"I'm definitely planning on getting some bowline in that night," he said.
The normal cost of bowling at Jaybowl is 90 cents per game, but on tonight it's 75 cents. SUA will pay Jaybowl $25 per hour for free pool.
The Jaybowl got a new sound system last week, and black lights were installed above the lanes in mid-September, said Greg Bollinger, manager of the Jaybowl.
Bollinger said the black lights
gave the pins a glowing effect. The lanes have an additive in the finish that make them glow.
In the future, Jaybowl will have special effects including lasers and disco lights.
"They really enjoyed it," he said.
"The think they it's something unique."
This is the first time live bands will perform at the Jaybowl. The Jaybowl had a few parties this semester where students tried out the new techno-bolling, Bollinger said.
John Orcutt, Hutchinson senior and live music coordinator for SUA, said he approached Bollinger about live music because he was looking for an alternate venue where bands could play smaller shows. Also, the Jaybowl is one of the only places on campus that sells beer.
"We like the atmosphere at the Jaybowl," he said. "It's the closest thing to a bar on campus."
Jaybowl employees will remove some of the arcade games in order to make room for the bands, and they will set up tables outside the door for people to sit.
Orcutt said that if the turnout was good, SUA and the Jaybowl would continue to have bands and techno-bowling on Friday nights.
The Web of romance: trysts with a twist
By Melissa Ngo Special to the Kansan
When Kevin Trevino first met his wife Kelli Cross-Trevino, the Corpus Christi, Tex., senior didn't notice the Lenexa junior's eyes or her smile. He couldn't. He was talking to her in an online chat room.
Online romances are becoming more and more frequent as an increasing number of people hook up to the World Wide Web and then to each other.
Frank DeSalvo, director of counseling and psychological services for the University, said that he had seen an increase in online romance counseling cases from last year, but that they remained a small percentage of relationship counseling.
There are many ways to hook up with the opposite sex online. The major Internet service providers such as America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy all have chat rooms. A free student connection to chat rooms is available through Internet Relay Chat.
Chatting online can be fun, but what happens when two people who met online decide to meet in person?
The software for IRC can be downloaded from the Web at http://www.mirc.com. With the software, students link to a server, get a listing of all the chat rooms available, log on to one and start meeting people.
Trevino described the first time he met his wife.
"She flew down to Texas with a friend of hers," he said. "That was the backup plan. She said that if I sucked, she was going to go to San Antonio with her friend."
DeSalvo said that people should be cautious when meeting online
"There's a difference between flirting on-line and down-and-ditry cybersex."
Melissa Bowman olathe senior
friends in person.
"If you're going to meet someone, don't go alone," he said. "Make sure that the activity is occurring in a public place."
Another concern with online communication is the debate over whether online romances could be considered cheating if either of the online friends were involved with other people in real life.
"When you share those intimate feelings with someone other than your partner, I do feel that it's a form of cheating," said Jebodiah Eaton, assistant technical director at the Lied Center and Internet chat user. "Although it's not physical, it is a betrayal."
Besides the question of cheating and the possibility of physical danger that might occur when meeting people, there are other concerns with online communication. Someone else could be eavesdropping on online trys.
"Most people assume when you send something through the mail, or when they make a phone call, that it's private. But that's not true with electronic communication," said William Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries.
Try it, you'll like it
Ian Bostwickz, 18, Eskridge, takes the Coke/Pepe challenge sponsored by KJHK The Hawk. He had to identify which soft drink he was tasting, to see if there really is a difference. Photo by Holly Groshong/KANSAN.
Art museum's quilt display showcases the 'conventional'
By Linus Williams Special to the Kansan
A collection of quilts representing American folk art from 1780 to 1976 is now on display at the Spencer Museum of Art.
"American Quilts: Design Parallels" uses quilts to share influences from other art forms, from Greek and classical ornamentation to Japanese and contemporary patterns.
"The quilts that were chosen display the uniqueness and broadness of the collection," said Barbara Brackman, Spencer's honorary curator of quilts.
Brackman, who prepared the exhibit, selected 10 quilts from more than 200 in Spencer's collection, which she regards as one of the best in the world.
Each quilt is displayed with an object that reflects the theme of the quilt design. Patterns such as stars, apples, feathers, roses, Greek columns, and Japanese fans are some examples of the designs.
The exhibit is in chronological order and begins with a gridded New England quilt made between 1775 and 1840. The quilt incorporates feather quilting patterns with various fruit designs. The quilts end with a quilt, made in 1976, which contains a vivid collage of small colored boxes in an asymmetrical pattern.
"It is interesting to see how the various influences in the different quilts evolved," said Stephanie Wilson, Mission freshman.
Most of the quilts displayed were bought near 1919 by Sally Casey Thyer, an art collector who bought American art that people at the time didn't want because they felt the items were too conventional. She bought 40 quilts as well as silver and glassware which is displayed in the exhibit. Some of her quilts on display are worth as much as $20,000 each.
"American Quilts" is on display through Nov. 2.
For march organizers, first step is a big one
Women face challenges in planning sequel to million-man event
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Just two days before the Million Woman March, an organizer stood at an airline ticket counter, cash in hand, to pay for Winnie Mandela's ticket from South Africa.
The sight underscored the greatest strength and weakness of the march scheduled for tomorrow—its grass-root organization.
"It has these dramas and these hurdles," march spokeswoman Barbara Smith said, referring to a
momentary glitch in getting the event's most famous speaker to Philadelphia. "Nothing is going to hurt these women or this march."
Designed to revitalize black families and communities, the women's march hopes to recapture the spirit of the Million Man March in Washington two years ago.
But organizational problems have abounded. Co-chairwoman Asia Coney paid the $10,000 city permit just before the deadline. Organizers incorrectly announced that Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks would attend. Voice-mail boxes are frequently too full to take messages. Telephone calls go unreturned.
"This whole thing has had controversy," organizer Phile Chionesu acknowledged yesterday.
Still, organizers say they are proud they never handed their march over to slick marketers or banked on a big name the way that the Million Man March was associated with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
"We have done things that have challenged the status quo," Chionesu said.
Word spread by friends and relatives telling each other, filers and leaflets, small gatherings, blackrun media and the Internet, said Habeebah Ali, a Philadelphia employment activist who has helped organize the march.
"Sisters have been talking about this for a long time," she said.
That was true for Patricia Sullivan, 41, of White Plains, N.Y. She got one flier about the march in her
office mail at the Westchester Correction Guardians Inc. Sullivan posted photocopies in grocery stores, shopping centers and laundromats throughout White Plains and Yonkers, N.Y.
"I must have put over 1,000 fliers out," she estimated.
No one called her for a month.
Suddenly the calls started pouring in. Her efforts filled five buses.
Retired Chicago police officer Cheryl Thomas-Porter, 40, said she heard about the march from her best friend. She then joined the regional organization board, which expects to send 65,000 people to the march by bus, train and airplane.
"This march is us. We made this march," Thomas-Porter said. "The march is the contribution of every single woman of African descent that took part."