UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 4, 1996
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MU330 invades Lawrence
St. Louis band couples sound of ska and punk
By Jeff Ruby
Kansan staff writer
The inside of their tour van smells like somebody's feet — or worse.
the somebody's feet or worse.
Dan Pothast, lead guitarist for St.
Louis ska-punk band MU330, captures the messy essence of the band-on-the-road touring experience in his simple description of the odor of the band's trusty van.
Potthast described the smell as a
cross between foot and butt.
MU330 has been together since 1988. The group has gained a following in the Midwestern ska scene through non-stop touring and raucous live shows. Tonight, MU330 invades The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., along with Skankin' Pickle and Johnny Socko.
Potthast said he loved touring the nation with the six-piece band.
"Whether you're tired or sick, once you get up there onstage and see the crowd getting into it, it totally kicks you in the butt," he said. "And you
get to do it with your five best friends."
MU330, a six-member ska band, performs tonight at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The show will be open to anyone 18 and older.
MU330's fast-paced ska jelled on their recently released second album, Chumps on Parade.
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Pottast said the band was made up of just six regular guys.
"We're not struggling to stay aloft, but none of us live out of our parents' houses yet," said Potthast, the band's principal songwriter.
Doug Richards, Pipeline Productions representative, said that he never tired of seeing MU330 perform.
"I've known these guys ever since their first shows," said Richards, who also books local shows. "They're really good friends of mine, and I've seen them like 1,000 times. They're a great band."
In the cliquish, distinct punk and ska scenes, MU330 either fits into both categories or neither, depending on whom you ask.
"A lot of the traditional ska people soured on them because they do that crossover thing," Richards said. "Of course, they're been doing it for years. But they're more in with the punk stuff now and crossover ska has never caught on with the traditional fans."
Steve Ozark, the band's agent, said that since ska and punk shared so
many characteristics and fans, the band's classification made no difference.
"It's always been a healthy mix," he said. "A lot of people say ska will be the big new musical style to emerge. With ska, a city will suddenly light up. You could put the word 'ska' at the top of the poster, and it would draw 200 to 300 people. But MU330 is just fast, crazy pop songs."
Pothast said he and his bandmates always will have a place in their hearts for Lawrence.
"Lawrence is the first place we ever played outside of St. Louis," he said. "It's the first place we had a following, even before St. Louis. I guess you could say it's where we got started."
Richards said the show, which is 18 and older, will probably sell out. Tickets are $5.
Jayhawk Festival donates money
August concert nets more than $10,000 for charity
By Erin Rooney
Kansan staff writer
More than $10,000 of the profits will be donated to charity.
The parking tickets are paid, and sunburns have lost their glow. The 1996 Jayhawk Music Festival is just a memory for the people who made their way to Clinton Lake State Parkon Aug. 25.
The Jayhawk Music Festival was a philanthropic event sponsored by the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Tickets for the concert were $15.
and 8,469 were sold. The profits will go to Rock the Vote, Clinton Lake State Park and a local battered women's shelter.
"Everyone is happy," said John Hill, St. Louis, Mo., senior and coordinator of the festival. "We had a lot to overcome, and somehow we made it work."
Hill said rain the week before the event caused difficulties coordinators didn't anticipate. Special staging equipment had to be purchased, and the park worried about damage to the land.
"It was a lot of stress," he said.
"The performers said, however that this was the smoothest show they've ever been involved with."
The festival made an overall profit of $14,500. The fraternity put $4,000 in the bank to help with start-up costs for next year, $6,000 will be given to Clinton Lake State Park, $4,000 to Rock the Vote and $500 to the local shelter.
Jerry Schecher, Clinton Lake State Park manager, said that the park benefited from the festival from the purchase of parking permits, the charitable gift from the fraternity and the exposure to new people in the facility.
Clinton Lake State Park received an initial $10,000 from the fraternity for cars admitted into the parking lot and another $400 from parking violations. All of this money will be given to the Kansas
State Parks system and will be divided among the 24 state parks.
"In the grand scheme of things, $10,400 isn't that much for the state," Schecher said. "But to say Clinton Lake State Park received that amount, it made the parklook good."
The $6,000 donation will be placed into the Wild Trust, the State Park's individual trust.
The parking area for cars and trucks was wet enough that the grass was slightly damaged. Ruts also need to be filled, Schecher said.
"When you look at what we made versus the repair costs, I think we made a good investment."
The remaining money from ticket sales went to operating costs.
New pap smear technology developing
By Ashleigh Roberts Kansan staff writer
A new pap smear device and two automated screening devices recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration probably will become the norm for pap smear testing, but for now, the traditional methods will stay in place, said Henry Buck, gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The pap smear device, ThinPrep, eliminates all unwanted cells from the tissue sample. Traditional methods view the sample in its entirety. Mucus cells, puss cells, and red and white blood cells could cover overlapping cells or cell changes in the cervix. Buck said.
ThinPrep also makes it easier to test the DNA of human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted virus with cell changes that could become benign warts or lesions that
could cause cancer. With the new method, one sample can be tested several times, while traditional methods would require an additional pap smear when a test showed abnormal cells. The additional test, which would diagnose the type of the abnormal cells, cannot be taken until a month after the first test.
"You always have to balance the cost against the value," he said. "Right now it would cost around $40 or $50. People simply will not come pay that when a regular pumpe at Watkins cost $15."
Buck said that he was enthusiastic about the new method because it made sense but that it was labor intensive.
The same problem applies to AUTOPAP 300 and PAPNET, two computerized screening devices that analyze abnormal pap smears. The machines are based on space-
age technology, and some studies have shown they pick up 30 percent more abnormal cells, Buck said. But the machines cost approximately $1 million each and only are set up to read the smears taken in the traditional way.
"Right down the line, the samples received the same readings from both labs. They also agreed with the biopsy diagnosis," Buck said. "Very few irregular paps will be missed by regular, annual exams if they are read by good labs."
Watkins was involved with the testing of these products last year before the FDA approved them. The gynecology department sent 48 student samples to the normal lab in Kansas City and a duplicate sample to another lab in New York that would be tested by the new equipment.
Laura Montgomery, Leavenworth junior, said that although the
devices were expensive right now, they were a good option to have.
"If I were concerned with my health, I would pay to have it done," she said. "It's nice to know it's available. I always thought the pap smear test was 100 percent effective."
"If a woman has three regular exams and nothing is detected, she has less than a 1 percent chance of having any problems," he said. "Cervical changes occur very slowly. The odds of missing them are very low."
Buck said that Watkins' false negative rate, which is 5 percent, was very low and that students could trust their results.
Buck said that methods similar to ThinPrep were likely to become a standard with computerized screenings when the price dropped.
The lab that Watkins uses is developing a method to help reduce the cost.
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