THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Kansan
Monday
October 6,1997
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Inside today
The University of Kansas Gamers and Role Players unite to play Dungeons and Dragons and Mage.
SEE PAGE 6A
Sports today
The Kansas football team used a little good luck and a clutch penalty to defeat the Sooners for the third time in a row.
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Take it from the Top: It was a laugher
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Comedian's show so hot, building's fire alarms go off
By Corrie Moore
Kansan staff writer
Carrot Top was on fire Saturday night.
Carrot Top was on fire Saturday night. KU students and parents were entertained by the pyromaniacal comedian whose routine set off the fire alarms and kept the house laughing.
The event, which was sponsored by Student Union Activities, started at 8 p.m. at the Lied Center. About 1,200 people attended. Kielyn Scott, Wichita junior and SUA special events coordinator, said the turnout was a success.
Michelle Dennard, SUA president, said that SUA had paid Carrot Top about $15,000 for his services.
"Even though it wasn't a full house, I know the people that were there really enjoyed it," she said. "That's what made it a successful event."
Throughout the show, Carrot Top used lasers and pyrotechnics to dazzle the audience. Some of the effects set off the fire alarm at the end of the show, prompting the Lawrence fire department to usher the audience out.
Comedian Lee Loran opened the show. Soon after, Carrot Top hopped onto the stage wearing a blue KU ball cap and crimson and blue attire.
Carrot Top's first jokes targeted Lawrence, commenting on how big the campus was and the number of hills.
"It if takes you more than four years to finish school, you got an excuse," he said.
His stage was set with a flower-child theme complete with bright colors, peace signs and bongs that went along with his jokes.
Carrot Top scrambled all across the stage, pulling inventions from his various trunks with music and lighting to help set off his jokes. Some of his inventions included a golf club for Tiger Woods with a credit card scanner on the handle, a geriatric walker for Mick Jagger and a lamp shade to conceal a water pipes during Parents' Weekend.
Carrot Top said he was a little uncertain how the crowd would respond to his show with all the parents in the audience. But he said the University of Kansas was one of his top five college stops.
"This was fun because the crowd
Little-known Carrot Top facts from the comedian's Web site (www.carroтоp.com):
THE BASICS
Born; Cocoa Beach, Fla.
College: Florida Atlantic University
THE MAN
Music: Enjoys the Rolling Stones.
Grateful Dead, Fink Floyd - even ABBA and Elton John.
Movies: Favorite movie is
THE SHOW
ouses pores to itch The hair is naturally red and curly.
laughed at everything," he said.
The show ended with impersonations of a number of rock stars, such as Michael Jackson, Madonna and the Rolling Stones, complete with music, lasers and confetti, which gave the effect of a rock concert.
Joe Kohen, Omaha sophomore, said he decided to go to the show at the last minute.
"It was unbelievable," he said. "I wasn't expecting all that."
Carrot Top, doing his best Marv Albert impersonation, uses props to get a laugh out of the crowd. He performed at the Lied Center Saturday night for an audience of about 1,200. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
As a celebration of architecture and the landscape, the School of Architecture and Urban Design dancers perform an interactive dance at the Barber School. The old schoolhouse is an ongoing restoration project at Clinton Lake State Park supported by the school Photos by Dan Elsavsky/KANSAN
the landscape is the dance
By Marcelo Vilela Special to the Kansan
Can one dance the landscape?
The idea for "Can One Dance the Landscape?" was conceived by Judith Major, associate professor of architecture and urban design.
Yes, according to those who attended last Friday's non-traditional dance performance at Clinton Lake.
"She had this idea eight years ago: Architects would build structures that dancers would respond to," said Joan Stone, instructor of dance, who choreographed the performance and worked with Major to bring it to life.
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the performance was in a field by the Barber School, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1871 near Clinton Lake.
There were three temporary, nonwelded steel structures in the hilly field, which was covered with 5-foot-high grass. The structures symbolized three
ARCHITECTURE
The School of Architecture saved the building from ruin by restoring the walls and roof in 1995.
I FELT LIKE DANCING.
ALLOWS YOU
TO ADD
TO ART.
Jacqueline Davis, Lied Center director
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DIMENSION
stages of life: birth, work and death.
Ascending the hill, the dancers made their way through the life cycle, walking toward the sunset. The installations were set up along a path across the field, where the dancers interacted with them.
With no seating available, the audience performed a peripatetic routine, following the road around the field and the dancers. About 100 people attended the performance.
The dancers entered the field dressed in red, yellow, purple and white, waving their arms like a field of wheat. The two male dancers swung a white cloth while the other dancers gyrated around steel columns marking the
steel columns marking the entrance to the field.
The "Birth" installation used cables and steel poles supporting a white sail. The dancers unwound from drapes, flinging their arms to the sky.
See LANDSCAPE on page 5A
Perpetrators of lewd acts seek thrill from danger
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Since August, KU students have been
acted of lave and lasevivious behavior
Masturbators in the library. Masturbators in the stairwalls. Masturbators outside windows. Masturbators in their cars.
as of lewd and lascivious behavior on and off campus. Four incidents occurred the night of Sept. 30. KU police suspect the same person was involved in those four incidents but have no leads in the case.
Raymond Higgins, professor of psychology, said the reason some people enjoy exhibitionist behavior was a form of paraphilia. Paraphilia
More information
For the lowdown on sexual activity inside campus libraries, see inside.
See page 3A
involves an act of deviant sexuality, usually including some element or behavior that ordinarily is not associated with sexual arousal.
"It usually means that a person cannot get sexual arousal or release without the presence of that object or risk." Higgins said.
He said paraphilia could include anything from a foot fetish to exhibitionism.
"They feel excitement from the risk of being caught. It's the shock value," he said. "It's not designed to turn someone on sexually."
Higgins said he thought one of the reasons the campus had witnessed a lot of lewd behavior was because it had many secluded, public places.
"They can find places where they are partially hidden but still seen," he said. "The person wouldn't do it while standing in the middle of a well-lit corner."
KU police agreed with Higgins' rationale.
Police said that public masturbators and other exhibitionists usually performed in secluded areas with a very small audience. Police recommended that students always travel in groups to avoid encountering an act of lewd behavior.
Police also said it was rare for a masturbator to attack victims.
POLICE also said it was not a major factor to make him. "I've never seen an act of lewd and lascivious behavior turn into an assault or rape," said Burdel Welsh, KU police officer. "However, I would not recommend approaching the person."
Higgins agreed that exhibitionists usually were not violent.
"I don't think they are likely to be violent or assaultive, but it's best not to assume they're harmless," he said.
Welsh said that if a student became a victim of lewd and lascivious behavior, he or she should try to remember the description of the person and then immediately leave the area to call the police.
"The best chance we have to catch them is to have a good description of the person or car and a direction of travel." Welsh said. "The sooner they call, the better the chance of us getting there before he leaves."
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