Friday, September 24, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
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First of Hawk Nights debuts tonight; organizers hoping for alcohol-free fun
By Emily Hughey
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
When University of Kansas alcohol surveys uncovered that underage and binge drinking were on the rise, the administration vowed to offer entertainment alternatives.
Tonight they will deliver on that promise.
Through a combined effort by the administration, the athletic department, KU LEAD, Student Union Activities, Student Alumni Association, Association of University Residence Halls and the All Scholarship Hall Council, students, friends and family are invited to the campus-wide party called Hawk Night at 8 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
The festivities will include a dance with music videos playing on the MegaVision, a giant game of Twister, a bungee bull (a barrel suspended sideways by four bungee cords), a moon walk, free Coca-Cola
and cotton candy. At 10 p.m. the movie, There's Something About Mary, will be shown on the MegaVision.
Barbara Ballard, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs and Hawk Night coordinator, said the event was designed to show that campus could be a center of entertainment for students.
"KU Hawk Night is a campus-wide party that involves many student organizations on campus, and we plan it for students on campus," she said. "We want to show that you can have a party and have a good time and campus can be a center for it."
The event has been classified by some students as just another alcohol-free University event. However, Cameron Popp, SUA president and member of the Hawk Night planning committee, said that having a dry party was not the mission of the night.
"I think the real purpose is to offer an occasional alternative," he said. "We're not offering this as an alco-
"We want to show that you can have a party and have a good time and campus can be a center for it."
Barbara Ballard
Hawk Night coordinator
holf-evening. It's being promoted as a party."
However, Popp said he recognized that some students would not attend the event because they would have other plans for tonight.
"It's a Friday evening, so naturally it's going to compete with what students normally do on a Friday night," he said. "But it will give people who may not always want to go out to bars something to do in lieu of drinking."
Zack Lerner, Overland Park sophomore, said he appreciated the idea of Hawk Night, but didn't think
he would go.
"I usually wouldn't go to something like that but I think it's a good idea," he said. "It's just not for me. It's for people who don't drink and for anybody who wants to exercise their freedom of choice not to drink but still go to a party."
Neverthless, Ruthie Hagan, director of special events for KU LEAD and Hawk Night planning committee member, said she thought all students would enjoy the event.
"I think it's a good way for students to meet other students in a non-alcoholic, fun setting," she said.
Hagan said she expected more than 1,000 people to attend Hawk Night and that buses would be running to and from Memorial Stadium between 8 p.m. and midnight.
"This is something we've never done before, and I'm really looking forward to it," Popp said. "It's a good program, a good cause and a good effort."
— Edited by Jennifer Roush
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