Friday, October 24, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Fitness tour gets students high on life
By Corrie Moore
cmoreo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Forget the American Gladiators — KU students displayed their physical endurance yesterday in front of Allen Field House during the Collegiate Health and Fitness Tour.
Students participated in challenging events such as artificial rock-wall climbing, velcro-wall jumping, bungee running, gladiator duel competition and human bowling.
The tour visits more than 100 college campuses each year to promote alcohol and drug awareness. It is presented by Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students and has been traveling to college campuses for more than five years.
Julie Francis, educator at Watkins Health Center, said that the last time the tour stopped at the University of Kansas was in 1993. She said this week was perfect timing for the event.
"We were actually fortunate enough to get them during Alcohol Awareness week," she said.
The tour will be in front of the field house again from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
Joe Benavidez, event coordinator for the tour, said that the tour allowed students to see that they could live a healthier life.
"You can get a natural high playing these
games out here." he said.
The field house lawn was crowded yesterday with interactive events and larger-than-life inflatable products from sponsors such as Jeep, Trojan Brand Latex Condoms, Nair, Discover and Lipton Iced Tea.
Students who did not want to participate in the events browsed the various tents and picked up free products from sponsors. They could also enter a drawing to win a 1998 Jeep Wrangler, 1998 Plymouth Neon or a seventy cruise aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Many students stopped by on their way to class or while they were picking up their basketball tickets.
Holly Danielson, Chicago freshman, said she saw workers setting up the tents Wednesday and thought it looked like fun.
"We were walking to class, and I decided to ditch class to come here," she said.
The velcro-wall jumping was a favorite event among students, including Spencer Cramer, Parsons freshman.
"They give you a chance to get out and jump around," he said.
Francis said that because of the location and the weather, there were fewer students participating in yesterday's events than she had expected.
"The ones that are here are having a lot of fun." she said.
Jill Lindsey, Overland Park freshman, and Sarah Rubin (back)
Overland Park freshman, duke it out at the gladiator ring
yesterday in front of Allen Field House. Photo by Geoff
Krieger/KANSAN
New kickoff time exorcises Halloween event
'Dark at the Top postponed five days by changed game time
By Mike Perryman Kansan staff writer
The Natural History Museum's annual "The Dark at the Top of the Hill" Halloween function will be
post-
p. m. on Thursday.
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loween activity is in its fourth year and is aimed at elementary school students. It was initially scheduled for 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Natural History Museum and the Kansas Union but was postponed until 7
Sunday, the football game's kickoff time was changed from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow because of television conflicts. This led to overlapping times with the Halloween activity and a lack of parking availability.
"There won't be any parking, so we had to change the date," said Brad Kemp, marketing director of the Natural History Museum. "Spaces will be filled from here to Tonganoxie."
Pat Warren, assistant athletic director of intercollegiate athletics, said it was unfortunate that the changed time affected the Halloween event.
"We have not been asked by the museum to help pay the costs for the inconveniences," he said.
The most the Natural History Museum will have to pay is about $50 to print 1,300 new tickets and about $200 to advertise the date change, he said.
The main concern was informing the community of the new date, said Ruth Gennrich, director of public education at the museum.
"We sent out about 15,000 fliers to the community and elementary schools advertising the event," she said. "I had to call the schools and inform them of the change."
Monday, Gennrich contacted 40 elementary schools from Lawrence, Baldwin, Eudora, Perry-Lecompton, De Soto, Tonganoxie, Oskaloosa and McLouth.
Gennrich said the postponement would not be a major problem because elementary students in the Lawrence School District did not have classes on Oct. 31, and would be able to stay out later on Thursday.
The tickets cost $2 each and usually sell out, Kemp said. He said the activity was expected to gross about $2,500, but the groups sponsoring the event, which included the Kansas and Burge Unions, the Museum of Anthropology, AudioReader Network, and the Society of Physics Students, would only make about $1500, or about $300 each.
The event is really just a good and inexpensive alternative Halloween activity for the community, Kemp
said.
Most of the activities will take place in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. The Unions will be putting on a "mummy" bowling game and will take pictures of children with the Kansas Jayhawk.
The museums will show specimens and skulls to the children and will give flashlights to the children. Children will also be allowed to tour the unlighted Natural History Museum.
Volunteers from the Audio- Reader Network, a radio reading service for disabled individuals, will read Halloween stories and hand out bookmarks printed in Braille.
The Society of Physics Students will put on physics demonstrations for the children and will do a 'spoof' of the T.V. show "The X-Files," called "The Hoax-Files," said Phil Baringer, professor of physics.
"We lost one of our cast members for the show because of the rescheduled," he said. "But the show will go on."
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