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Monday, June 23, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Snakes' act hard to swallow
By JAIN PENNER
Kansan Reviewer
Ever since the dog a serpent tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, snakes have been a symbol of evil and of the downfall of man. For Tasha, "the Snake Woman," however, they represent a unique way to earn a living.
Tasha, who appeared at the Flamingo Club last week, received top billing. But her costar, a 350-pound python named Sadie, ran a close second.
Although Tasha's performance consisted of four acts, including a ritual dance in which she set her body on fire, the audience kent calling out for the snake dance.
There was a delay of several minutes
to see the ducking, and then to
white to chase Cain and her little plumages,
to white to chase Cain and her little plumages,
before starting her dance, Tasha, smiling nervously, downgrades the anacondas and the anacondas, then dances with them.
The snake slyly began to slither around her neck, but an attendant standing by quickly untangled the snake from the dancer's body.
two 125-pound anaconda boa constrictors,
out of their cage.
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Once the snakes were in place on the floor, Tasha began her act. Dressed in an Oriental dress's continue. The snake was hissing at his house trying to enerce them to climb up her leg.
One of the anaconda, apparently not in the mood for putting on a show that night, swiftly slithered up the stage and into his cage.
After several more attempts, Tasha finally caught the eye of the other anaconda, and its head began to move rhythmically following the motion of her haps.
Sadie was somewhat less responsive. Throughout the entire performance, the 15-foot python laid on the floor, failing to jump and dragging laura her head on its 12-inch thick coils.
After the act, Sadie entertained the audience by eating a rabbit. Displaying table manners that would have shocked Amy Vanderbilt, the snake gulped the rabbit down whole. There was then a noticeable bulge in the snake's body.
The club was open to the public each morning last week and several children came to see the snakes. On Friday morning, they came in for a cage, and a crowd of about 50 children surrounded her, eagerly waiting to pet the reptiles.
Hedrick to network helm
Turn Hedrick, who served as "Voice of the Jayhawks" from 1960 to 1969, will return to the University of Kansas to again become director of the KU Sports Network.
Cyclle Walker, director of athletics, said last week that Herdrick's appointment was effective July 1. He succeeds Jerry Bailey, director of the network since December 1969, who is now sports director for television station KTSB in Topeka.
Hedrick, 41, was sports director for television station KDW in Dallas for the Texas Rangers and announced for the Texas Rangers, the Missouri Valley Conference basketball television network, the NCAA basketball championships and Southwest Conference games.
He has done radio play-by-play announcing for three Super Bowl and did the play-by-play announcing of the Cotton Bowl for five years for GSBS radio. He has been an announcer for "ABC Wide World of Sports" for the past seven years.
Upon leaving KU in 1966, Hedrick worked
a television stations in Lincoln, Kansas
and Cincinnati before working in
Dallas.
Hurricanes, a 21-year veteran of sports-casting, started at station KLWN in the town of Poudre. Lawrence High School football and basketball He later worked for radio stations in Kilgore, Tex., and Hutchinson, before returning to KU in 1960 to succeed Monte Holmes, who plays announcer for the Oakland Athletics, as director of the KU Sports Network.
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KU housing damage down
Although vandalism is becoming an expensive problem at many high schools and universities in the United States, the universities at University of Kansas residence halls.
At a meeting of the Administrative Housing Board Thursday, J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that the estimated annual cost a student for vandalism from 1968 to 1752 was $4$, or 4 per cent of the total residence hall contract charge.
In the 1974-5 school year, this dropped to $a student, or one-half of one per cent of the total cost.
One reason for this decrease was the initiation of two $15 charges to residents, with about 70% of the charge being about three years ago to pay for student monitors in the halls. The other, made effective last year, was a vandalism and theft charge, which retain an amount for vandalism each semester.
Any money that remains after vandalism has been paid for can be used for residence hall improvements, such as saunas and photography labs, he said.
The board met with David Shapiro, chairman of the Oliver Hall Community Council, who had charged June 9 that the housing board wasn't using adequate means to collect vandalism charges from residents.
Last year the Oliver council collected a much higher percentage of vandalism charges than the housing board collected. Shapiro said this was because of a new system of billing that included an appeals process.
The charges discussed included damages to rooms and damages outside rooms for which responsibility could be determined. The board agreed with Shapiro that the
William Balfour, chairman of the board, said the initial assessment process could be tightened up and there should be an appeal process available to the student.
The board agreed to refer the problem to the Association of University Residence Builders to will study the community council concept and better ways of collection and assessment.
Seay, McDonald make U.S. team
Two recent University of Kansas graduates will compete in Europe this summer as members of a U.S. track team. Both placed second in their events in the Amateur Athletic Union track championships last weekend in Eugene, Ore.
One of them, Danny Seay, matching his finish in the NCAA indoor, NCAA outdoor and the recent Meet of Champions track meets, placed second in the long jump Friday. His 26-1/2 leap was topped by Arnie Robinson's 26-5.
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The other, Kent McDonald, lowered his previous steeplechase best by eight seconds in finishing second Saturday to Randy Smith, a recent graduate of Wichita State University. Smith beat McDonald 8:28.2 to 8:28.8.
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