University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 15, 1991
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Taunted by comedians Rex Bowl, left, and Franko, Katie Reagan. St. Lukes junior, stifles a laugh by "thinking of death." She was one of three to win $25
Game show is full of laughs
Student contestants win $25 prizes without cracking a smile
By Michelle Betts Special to the Kansan
Smiles and laughs were had by all — except the contestants at the "We Can Make You Laugh" competition.
Special to the Kansan
The two-hour show, sponsored by Student Union Activities and the Board of Class Officers, provided comic relief for about 200 people last night at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
Members of the comedy team, Pervis Powell,
Franko and Rex Roy, each performed a 20-minute
spectacle.
In the second half of the show, each member of the comedy team had two minutes to make the contestant laugh. Three judges were chosen from the audience to sound a buzzer if the contestant laughed or
If the contestants kept stone-cold expressions for
all six minutes, they won $25 cash and a "We Can
make You Laugh" T-shirt.
The comedy team asked Katy Regan, the first contestant, what her strategy was for not laughing.
Members of the audience filled out contestant forms which included their names and addresses. Contestants randomly were chosen from a box filled with the forms.
The first two contestants, Regan, Falls Church, Va., junior, and Lisa Hays, St. Louis, Mo., freshman, were expressionless through performances by the three comedians, and both took home prize money.
The third contestant, Mike Johnston, Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman, lost in the first round when he smiled at Powell, who was wearing a white bra and black curly hairied wig.
didn't crack a smile but was buzzed with seven seconds left. After the audience protested, Clase was given another seven seconds not to laugh and won.
Martin Clase, Stockholm, Sweden freshman,
Sextan Traxler, leisure activities coordinator for SIA, said the comedy show was a novel opportunity to participate.
"It provides students with a good stress reliever from classes with comedy," he said.
Julie Bahr, president of the Board of Class Offices, said the organization wanted to get more staff and better training.
Students who paid class dues through optional fee payment and received a class card could buy a ticket for last night's performance at a discount, Bahn said.
Trakker said he hoped to have more comedy programming next semester, including student come-
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Conflicts about renovated Stouffer Place apartments settled with new waiting list
Stouffer Place residents now know which waiting list is the correct one after a meeting yesterday between the housing department, Stouffer tenants and management.
By Stephanie Patrick Special to the Kansan
Stouffer Place is on-campus housing
to support students and students
with children.
The list was for placement into two of the complex's renovated apartments, which will open in December.
In what the housing department called a misunderstanding between management and tenants, some residents say that the management office's employees started a waiting list for remodeled Stouffer Place apartments more than a year ago without telling most residents.
The Stoufier Neighborhood Association wanted the waiting list to reflect a
Rebecca James, president of the association, disagreed.
seven-point criteria that was based on the size of the family and the ages of
The association's primary concern is that residents with three or more children have priority over other residents.
Stoner said the association and man-
agement had agreed to use the seven-
Ken Stoner, director of housing, met with members of Stouffer management and the association yesterday to discuss the problem.
Ruth Swain, Stouffer Place manager,
ruad only one official list existed.
"There was no disagreement about what we were going to do," he said. "We reached an agreement about who was responsible in the three-bedroom apartment."
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During the closed meeting, it was decided that the two lists would be merged, she said.
That was not true, Swain said.
"The first name on the list doesn't
Wendy Rieman, an association
block representative, also disagree
with him.
"There were so few people on both bits that we decided it would be better if we had a single bit."
Rieman said the first person on management's list was a member of the staff. The implication was that they would have the first chance at the new apartments.
"She hasn't been saying that until today," Riwan said. "Ruth would not acknowledge the seven-point list or make a representative, it makes me loos bad."
A drawing or the new apartments was planned it more than two families fit the criteria.
automatically mean they get it," she said.
Swain said one of the three-bedroom apartments was going to a three-child family who lived off campus.
The apartment also was offered to a family with five children now living in Stouffer Place, but they turned it down, she said.
Jack Shelton, a resident with two children, said the seven-point list was the only fair way to handle the situation.
He said his family was fourth on the list that he signed last year but fifth on the list that he retired.
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Still, he and his wife, Shirley, had already decided what they were going to do.
"If we don't get one we are going to move out," he said.
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