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Friday, October 15, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Leisure
Camping: A way to get away from it all
Staff Writer
By RICK THAEMERT
When life becomes too hectic, some KU students study that the best way to escape is to run.
"There's an inward pressure on people in the city that makes them want to flee," Jeff Haynes, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said recently.
Haynes said camping relieved that presently brining people closer to the peaceful landscape allowed them more comfort.
But, he said, he respected nature for the challenges it offered. Fighting blizzards too blinded to see through or asleep on top of him, he said, that can't be enjoyed in a city, he said.
JOHN GURCHE, Overland Park that he, too, enjoyed and respected nature.
"There are certain parts of nature I feel a spirit in," Gurche said.
Nature can bring friends closer together, he said, and his favorite camping adventures have been with close friends—including dates at interesting places.
These interesting places aren't
cessarily far away either, Gurche said. He often rides his bike to woods on the edge of Lawrence and has a "Kansas sleep-out" on Wednesday that he said would him time to think things over, he said.
SIMILARLY, Tom Gray, Overland Park senior, said he often camped near Lawrence—on the beach at the Kansas River or in the hills south of town. He said that many of the best camping spots around Lawrence were on private property, and that the property owners never seemed to care whether people camped there.
Gray said he also took interstate camping trips with friends, including one to the *Chapel of the Holy Cross*.
Those who camp for several days usually will have to travel beyond the edge of town, according to Haynes, who usually camps in Colorado.
"I'RE HERE isn't much wildlife around
it." She looks at you and sees sights and
tails out of the oak tree.
Meredith Marden, Evergreen, Colo.
comer, attorney and owner of
taking the three needs needed
"You don't need half the clothes you take." she said, "just extra socks."
for any lengthy camping trip—a backpack,
sleeping bag and food.
Clothes contribute most to the weight of a backpack, she said, so they should be minimized as much as possible—down to one pair of shoes and a warm shirt.
Haynes said the most important camping item was a good pair of boots, which could be called "traditional" and he said, as long as the camper uses a good sleeping bag that is suitable to the climate. He said that couples who didn't separate sleep accommodations could go out hiking with their friends.
"MY BACKPACK weighs about 30 pounds, which is pretty heavy for a girl,"
To stave off camping trip hungers, Marden said, she takes many freeze-dried foods and some sweets, such as apples and candy.
HAYNES SAID freeze-dried foods were too expensive for his tastes, so he took gorp—a mixture of honey, raisins, nuts and seeds—for healthy munching.
Not all campers, apparently, are concerned about good equipment and food, especially those who camp overnight in nice weather.
Gurche said that equipment could have a "dulling effect" on camping, and that people might overlook the beauty of roughing it. A campmenu for Gurche would likely be one a can of chili, he said, and most definitely wouldn't include freeze-dried
Gray said many of his camping trips were spur-of-the-moment affairs.
"WE JUST make a Joe's run and take some doughnuts out there with us," he said. "I don't mind. And I don't mind."
the planners and the spur-of-the-moment campers had advice to offer
Gray said campers should look for secluded areas where they wouldn't be bothered, and in the summer they should look for a spot with a water source nearby.
Marden said winter campers should camp under trees because they all fall in the snow and extinguish their
campires. Animals are seldom problems, she said.
"ANIMALS COME up and take your
they don't hurt you, that's okay as long as
they don't hurt you."
How do campers spend their time?
Haynes said that when he camped, he spent his time "puttering around"—taking pictures, taking with fellow campers or walking—and that on long camping trips, he took five or six-mile hikes, with periodic gorc stops.
Gray said philosophical talks or around-the-campfire ghost stories were common. Gurche said he recalled a time in the Ozarks when he and four others searched for shelter from a storm, with graves in the yard. Oddly enough, the house had just enough beds to accommodate the five campers, he said, so they spent the night.
"WE WERE all really jumpy with the graves outside and everything," he recalled. "One guy even slept with a knife under his pill."
Haynes, who is in charge of the SUA backpacking programs and clinics, recalled a camping experience illustrating the importance of knowing how to avoid dangers.
He, two females and two other makes planned to camp in the Colorado mountains, but the extreme cold foiled their plans, he said. The group was able to erect only one fence, so the cold became unbearable one夜, so they find to handle together to stay warm.
"ALL THROUGH the night we shivered and shivered," he said, and the group was later shocked to learn that the temperature had increased. The coldest night in Colorado in 47 years.
Gray said he also had a brush with death once—but for different reasons—when he and a male friend, both camp counselors, went to the campground to light the two camping with their daughters.
"The thought we were trying to rape their girls, he said," so the chasers used it.
Ah, the perils of camping.
Ab, to fall for leaves turning,flesh clashing
BY KUN HARU LING
Guest Writer
Now, here we were before we were so rudely interrupted by thoughts of lost, Butz and ill-fitting shoes? Of course—our hand was being bound to heal, to savor the unmistakable delights of autumn. The well-cooked nostril can't help but detect the aroma of woemen roasting on an open fire, and the eye is refreshed by the mystery of new-painted trees. Fail overwhims us with beauty.
Most of us welcome fall with open arms; some, sad to say, mourn its coming. For that unhappy few, fall is nothing more than the villainous slayer who wields the laddy who holds the door while winter, the Evil One, makes his entrance. The changing leaves are seen as portents of decay and death, and as the days grow shorter, the troubled fellow turns to thoughts of his own mortality. The fading flower, the dying vine, the bittersweet gold—all are strong denials of those promises issued by spring.
INDEED, THE weather itself is a fairly accurate indicator of the two-faced nature of fall. Summer and winter are locked
in combat, and as the tide of battle shifts, so do the temperatures. The mercury soars and plunges untold degrees, often during a single day. Halter tops and mittens can sometimes be seen on the same day—and sometimes on the same person. And that certain something nipping at your nose can make you sick, but it could just as easily be a freeze-dried grasshopper, warmed into a half-baked craziness by the afternoon sun.
**NOT FALL** is more than whimsical weather and decaying leaves. It's the beginning of a new chapter to the best of which is the School Year. For those of us in the academic trade, the approach of autumn automatically increases the amount of communicating us to rush out and buy three-ring binders new Nush Puppies.
And, by marvelous design,
autumn also brings the
Television Season, as if to softhe blow dealt the school-bound nippers. After a hard dayat the blackboard we can comeunder and see the fights between Rhoda and Joe,Archie and Edith, Starsky andHutch, and Martin Perkinsand most of the Wild Kingdom.
NEW CARS, new phone books, new presidents—good lord, news aplenty. But still there is that one indispensable byproduct of fall: the sickening flash-signaling—hut one! but two that the Football Season is apace once more.
Ah, the blitz, the onside kick,
the third-down-and-47. The game must have been devised by the gods. Its real beauty lies
in its ability to create it to appreciate it. Football provides ample vicarious thrills for those of us for whom a well-placed knee to the groin and a forced touch of artificial turf would put out but the stuff of daydreams.
CAN THERE be any more satisfying experience than watching 22 men trying to annihilate each other by the rules? Hardly. Even those who echew pigkin-kugel whines thrown spiral in flight, or a punt that sparks 60 vards through the air.
more obstacles in the language than they ever did on the field.
AND ALL the while the leaves go from green to red to gold to brown, and soon they carpet the sidewalks. September melts into October. October into October in August. Robert Frost telling of the "love of bare November days — Before the coming of the snow." We remember Jack Palance's advice to preface Stone into our radiators (even though Jack scares the pants off us by demanding at the start of his musical, "Are you like me?"!)
On television the football game becomes a fall festival, complete with dancing girls, bands and blims. The pace is slowed somewhat by the tongue-tied efforts of such fugitives from the huddle as Johny Unitas and Irv Cross, who meet
The pleasures of autumn are precious but teeting. Pumpkin pie, giblet gravy, Hostess Snails (some foods know no name) and a snowshovel make way for the snow shovel, and slush re-enters our vocabulary as well as our socks.
SO GATHER your acorns while you may. Indulge yourself many; take a pompom girl to lunch; jump out of your car into a pile of maple leaves.
Autumn is glorious. But soon the world will be frozen and the weenies roasted, every one—until the siren call of spring sounds its promises, and the cycle starts all over again.
This Week's
Highlights
Exhibits
"ST. PETERSBURG - PE TROGRAD - LENINGRAD"
a picture and book biography
displayed at Watson Library.
THE MAX KADE COLLECEL-
tary art paintings and prints by James Whistler and Anders Johnson at the Kansas Union Gallery.
"PHOTOGRAPHS," a collection of and white photographs by four area photographers, is displayed at the 7E Gallery, 7.
Concerts
The Lawrence Public Library, 70 Vernon St.,
Bloomington, IL 61803 Alber, ACRYLICS by Bette Bleiwt, JEWELRY by Laurie Stetzer and PHOTOGRAPHS Geier Kesler and Chuck Bermis.
MIRIAM GREA, soprano,
performs a faculty recital
Thursday night at 8 in Swarth-
field; Recital Hall, in Murphy.
Hall
JAMES FLEISHER, visiting artist, performs a clarinet recital Wednesday night at 8 in the Racial Hall, in Merville, Hill.
NEIL SEDAKA performs the homecoming concert tomorrow night at 8 in Allen Field House.
Theater
The Kansas City Lyric Opera
and the performance of
LA TRAVAIL at 8:15 at the Lyric Theatre, 11th
Floor, City-Metropolitan Theater.
City-Metropolitan BARBER OF
SEVILLE '15 is performed by the Lyric tomorrow night at 8:15, and Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Lyric Theatre.
"JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS" opens tonight at 8 and is performed tomorrow night at row 1 of Murphy Hall. Murphy Hall. There is a 2:30 matinee of the play Sunday.
BOB WIRE AND THE OPEN RANGERS, a local country jazz band, plays tonight and on the opening off, On the Wall Hall. JUSTUS plays jazz and rock from 9 to 12 Monday night at the hall, and PAT AND GORDON CLEVEEN plays from 9 to 12 Tuesday night.
Nightclubs
THE JOE UTTERBACK TRIO, plays modern jazz from 9 to 12 tomorrow night. THE GASLISE LANG performs Dixieland jazz from 9 to 12 tomorrow night, and the JAM SESSION, plays Jazz from 9 to 12.
MILLIONAIRE AT MID-NIGHT, a local dance band, plays tonight and tomorrow at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
THE PRODUCERS—Mel BATES, the singer of Wilder and Zero Mosel as the scheming producers of a Broadway musical titled *I Shouldn't Have Been There*
Wednesday night is the hall's FRANK FRY concert and LEON RDENBONE, acoustical guitar recording artist is in concert Thursday
Films
ALPHAVILLE Godard's collection and the detective film embody '80s architecture and styles to create a future where the hero is involved.
LORD OF THE FAR ISLAND, by Victoria Halt (Crest a b) – Romantic soft balloons fitted to the ladies in condensed form in Cosmopolitan. The heroine goes to an island off the coast of Cornwall and then becomes drawn into dark and mysterious lands.
SHEEMPEN AND THE
experimental films made by
Mike Leggett, who will be
present at the showings to lead
THE TRIP AND THE WILD ANGELS—Roger Corman the star of "The Tride" primarily because of the early work of current superstars. The credits feature Jack Nicholson as the villain, and as an assistant director, and supporting stars such as Bruce Boxley and John Daly both. Check ads for showtimes.
VERONIQUE, by Virginia Gillespie, Paris in the years of the French Revolution, the heroin, an infiltrator, herself caught up herself Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Our heroin, naturally, joins up with the mob.
Books
REVEL HEIRESS, by Jane Alken Hodge (Crest, $17.5)—England in the era of the War of 112. Heilenstaff leaves Stamford and becomes the ocean and becomes the talk of London society, because, after all, she
THE MASTERS AFFAIR, by Burt Hirschfeld (Pocket, $1.95)—About the chap who heads up the internal Investigative Agency in this country and is murdered, and who has been garrisoned government in the aftermath. Totally written entertainment.
ASSIGNMENT IUNCRIN, by Edward S. Aaron (Gold Medal, $1.25) - Dumrel Surell is back in action, going to Southeast Asia to the funeral of a premier and a member of the American from America to the western islands of Scotland. Good fun, as usual.
THE CLOCKS, by Agatha Christie (Pocket, $1.50)—Four strange clocks, all set at the door of a room in a room of a blind woman, and a corpse shows up in the same room. Ah, but Hercule Poirt, with his mustaches and little hair, proves the case. Good vintage fun.
is as beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor.
THE WOMEN OF WATER-
GATE, by Madeleine Ed.
Morgan (Pocket), $1.95)—This was
invisible, Mrs. Hunt, Murs,
Magruder, Julie Elsenhower,
Joyce Fletcher, Woods.
A recent cartoon suggested that soon wed be buying Watergate books by the
THE POCKET BOOK OF PRO POOTBALL, by Herbert W. Dodd. A hardy book to have by your side as you watch the big games. Didn't KU have a Larry Brown, who played last year for the Washington Redskins? And pictures, all kinds of deep dope.
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Novice cook and author prepares his culinary wares.
A dash of imagination creates successful home-cooked meals
By JOHN THARP
If you lace a novice in the kitchen, cooking doesn't have to be enjoyable, money-saving and even tasty to make yourself a daily home-cooked meal. The kind of mom used to make
There's nothing more formidable than the idea of facing both an empty stomach and an empty stomach when you're lost on even the basic points of culinary experience. But all is not lost if you keep a few basic nutritional concepts in mind.
LET'S START with steak.
It's a nice break from the hamburger blues. Round steak and sirloin steak are both reasonably pricey, but you can buy your best buy, with prices ranging from $10 to $1.19 a pound. Select a cut with too much fat (the white bordering the meat.) When you get home, slice your steak into pieces. Cut a round steak that costs you $2 should yield from four to five servings, each serving enough to make one meal. Put this into perspective, take a Big Mac and an order of fries will now buy you a week's supply of steak.
TO STORE the meat, wrap each piece in aluminum foil, and place it in your freezer. When you wish to have a steak you should put it inside the number of pieces of meat you want, and place them in your refrigerator. Your refrigerator is another large metal container top, because you won't be taking a chance if you forget它.
After your steak is thawed, use a butcher knife to slice through the fat layer to the meat to prevent it from burning. Serve the meat in a Sprinkle meat tenderizer and pepper on both sides, and pierce the meat with a fork or a meat hammer.
STEAK CAN be fried in vegetable shortening, but use enough to cover the bottom of the pan. A cast-iron skillet is best for cooking, and teflon-coated pans are also good. Heat the pan over medium heat (between seven minutes over medium heat) and place the steak into the pan. Cook to your preference.
A nutritional entree is beef liver, usually about 69 cents a pound. Liver is high in iron and zinc. Riboflavin. Freeze it the same way as steak, but drain off the water first. Liver requires a little more milk than the meat is but tearful, treat with liver is a whole white onion—sliced and fried before the meat is cooked. Roll the onion slices in a flour and pepper mixture.
I'm not a colonel, but I like chicken—fried chicken, that is. It is cheaper than most meats—about 38 cents a pound for whole fryers, which have to be cut up.
IF LIVER is served with a sauce made from catsup, pepper, brown sugar and a vinegar. The sauce it secretes is it much tastier.
For those who don't know how or don't have the time to cut up a chicken, they sell them pre-packaged in a pound. Wrap your chicken in foil, saving the pieces you want for a meal.
and freeze them, Chicken should always be thawed out in the refrigerator, because it may easily at room temperature.
TO FRY YOUR chicken, place it, one piece at a time, in a brown paper bag containing flour, salt, pepper, poultry seasoning and your choice of herbs and spices. Shake, shake, shake your chicken, cook, sauté, skillet will need a lot of shortening, (about a half an inch) and will need to be heated to about 350 degrees (10 minutes on medium heat). The pieces must be turned with a fork occasionally to ensure thorough cooking. When the chicken has finished cooking, add the towel-lined plate to absorb the excess shortening.
While all your meats are cooking, you can fix your side dishes. Boiled potatoes are quick and easy. Whole white spuds should be washed, and then sliced into half inch slices. They can be peeled or mashed, and they can be boiling water until they are tender when pierced with a fork.
Baked potatoes should be cooked longer—one hour at 300 to 340 degrees. Smear them with shortening and place them directly on an oven rack. They also are snatched that are tended to the fork. Rice or baked sweet potatoes can be substituted.
A GREEN VEGETABLE adds color and nutrition to any meal. Fresh vegetables are best, but canned or frozen vegetables are more common. Peas, green beans, broccoli, asparagus and spinach are all good choices. Always cook
your vegetable over low heat, for a short period, so nutrients will remain in them. Peas, broccoli and asparagus are better topped with melted margarine. A dash of lemon or olive oil enhances its taste. Refrigerate leftover vegetables and eat within a week to get their best flavor.
Corn and carrots are both high in Vitamin A, a nutrient that helps the brain and see better in the dark. Fresh carrots are available all year and can be peeled, sliced and baked. Season them with salt.
ANY HOME-COOKED meal should have a bread, and this can be sandwich slices, rolls, biscuits, muffins or corn bread. These are available in mixes or as refrigerated rolls, which you bake according to directions on the package.
A salad is nice to eat while waiting for everything else to cook. Depending on the recipe, ingredients are lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, carrots, green peppers, celery, diced cheese or fruit. Try building a salad from the bottom of the bowl up, in layers of your vegetable dressing — it's easier than tossing.
COOKING AT home is cheaper than eating out and is easier to prepare. You can cook in the morning and fix them according to your preference. A cookbook can answer a question you have for ideas different dishes.
A lack of imagination is the only thing that can limit your culinary capacity.