MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29.2004
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Improvising laughter
Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, comedians from Whose Line is it Anyway? walk blindfolded across mouse traps during a skit they performed last night at the Lied Center.
'Whose Line' comedians draw more than 1,300
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WINTER
Last night at the Lied Center, Brad Sherwood had to confess a crime to Colin Mochrie. What made it harder than most confessions was the fact that he did not know what he was confessing.
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The two comedians became famous on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, an improvisational comedy show on ABC.
After several creative guesses, Sherwood admitted to deflating the Pillsbury Doughboy, goosing the president and exposing himself to a blind person while wearing a muumu, striped toesocks and a witch's hat that made him invisible with a bar of soap at Albino's Tanning Salon in Mongolia.
The comedians performed two hours of sketches from the show, adding twists and content that would not be allowed on television, Sherwood said.
"It may seem like I'm leading him in the wrong direction, but that's just because I want to screw with him," Mochrie said.
The comedians performed in front of an audience of more than 1,300, said Bryan Adkinson, event coordinator at the Lied Center.
They entertained the audience using only their wits and imaginations. Audience members shouted suggestions throughout the performance, making each game unique.
The comedians broke the ice with a game called moving bodies. Two audience members had to move the comedians' bodies throughout the sketch.
Mochrie gave instructions,
showing how to make them move.
"If you want him to go home with you, right there is good." Mochrie said while pointing at Sherwood's anatomy.
The comedians travelled to a Belgium brewery on Mochrie's imaginary moped.
Audience members participated throughout most of the games.
One highlight included an improvised rap song about an audience member Sherwood nicknamed M.C. Bear.
Nick Weiser enjoyed the live performance more than watching the show on television.
He said the final sketch made him laugh the most.
Mochrie and Sherwood added a few new twists to a game featured on television. In the original, the comedians improvise a conversation starting each sentence with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For the live show, they made the sketch more dangerous.
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"Usually there's a typical West. Coast style where they play a faster offense," she said. "We've seen a little bit of that the last couple of years against teams in the Big 12."
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She said she was ready to play fast despite torn ligaments in her left elbow.
"At senior night, I was like, 'this can't be my last match,' she said.
She said she had been nervous since her speech after the team's 3-1 victory against Colorado Saturday night in the regular season finale.
"You never get this feeling out of your stomach," she said. "I didn't know if I wanted to cry or throw up."
ESPNEWS kept the Jayhawks in suspense as they watched the selection show in a Memorial Stadium suite last night. Six Big 12 Conference teams were named before Kansas appeared in the seventh of the eight brackets revealed
Bechard said he became more
ou never get this feeling out of your
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Jill Dorsey Senior libero
comfortable as more teams were revealed.
"When I saw Arkansas come up, I was really really surprised," he said. "That gave me a good feeling."
Kansas defeated Arkansas 3-1 Sept. 1. Freshman opposite hitter Emily Brown, a high school All-American, said postseason potential was one reason she chose to play for Kansas.
"You can hear people talk about it, but until you sit in this room with the girls you've been with for the past three months, you don't know," she said. "There's nothing better."
Friday's match will begin at
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Senior libero Jill Dorsey and freshman middle blocker Caitlin Mahoney celebrate KU's selection to the NCAA tournament. Kansas will travel to Seattle to play Santa Clara in the first round. Team members and staff watched the selection show in the press box at Memorial Stadium last night.
7:30 p.m. at the Bank of America Arena located on the University of Washington campus.
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WRECK: Sorority looks to carry on Weidensaul's spirit
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"It was an extremely moving ceremony for her," he said. "It touched a lot of people. Hopefully it demonstrated the loving girl who we'll miss."
Scott Weidensaul said he would look for a way to set up a
memorial through the University.
It would probably be a scholarship, though no official plans have been made.
Weidensaul was studying physical therapy and was a teaching assistant for the University in an anatomy class.
Donations can be made to Starkey Inc., 4500 Maple Road, Wichita, Kan. 67209.
She is survived by Gail and Wesley Clary, mother and stepfather; Scott and Ann Weidensaul, father and stepmother; a sister and a brother-in-law; three step-brothers; two step-sisters and a boyfriend, Nikk Nelson, Lawrence junior.
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CAMPUS
University admissions to use selective process
LAWRENCE — Administrators at the University might consider making admissions standards higher than those at other universities in the state.
The "selective admissions" standards are part of long-term goals listed in the University's self-study that will be submitted
to the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, which will send a reaccreditation team to Kansas in January.
"At the undergraduate level," the report says, "the institution plans to undertake a program to build public and legislative support for the University to move from its current policy of qualified admissions to selective admissions for undergraduate students."
The current admissions standards, which apply to the six state universities, were implemented for the fall 2001 freshman class.
The standards require students to meet one of three criteria to be admitted to a state university; Rank in the top third of their high school graduating class; maintain a 2.0 grade-point average using a college track curriculum; or score at least a 21 on the ACT.
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