THE KAMPER KANSAN
Volume 7, Issue 3
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, July 17, 1970
Photo by Ken Meade
How to become a DJ
A speech camper, Mark Wilkoff, is shown at work at radio station KUOK.
Speech campers learning some tricks of their trade
By JANIE EDWARDS Kamper Kansan Reporter
Slow down! Use more expression. Enunciate! These are just a few of the many instructions often given to each student enrolled in the Speech Department of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Twenty-four states are represented by the 95 campers enrolled in speech. Each student selects either debate or interpretation for major emphasis throughout the camp.
The course of study is divided
Debate meet to be held
By LARRY GREWACH
Kamper Kansan Reporter
Five weeks of work for speech campers will end at the annual Speech and Debate tournament July 24-25.
The debate tourney will feature competition between 30 teams on the national level and 7 teams in a special Kansas round robin, in addition to contests in extemporaneous speaking, prose, original oratory, duet acting, dramatic interpretation and informative speaking. The preliminaries will begin at 9 a.m. at Templin Hall, with the finals scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Murphy Hall.
The first two rounds of the debate tourney will begin July 24 at 3:30 and 4:45 p.m. and continue into the next day, with the next three rounds at 8, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m. in Summerfield Hall. The tourney ends with the national semi-finals at 3 p.m. and the finals at 4:30 p.m.
into morning and afternoon sessions. The student is enrolled in three morning classes, each held one hour daily. The afternoon is spent in a workshop in debate or interpretation, depending upon the camper's interest.
A great diversity of courses is offered, enabling the student to specialize in his particular interest.
The students in Radio and Television Speaking learn by actual experience on the radio. Each student has the responsibility of presenting a one-hour show weekly on KUOK. Besides being part-time disc jockeys, they are also taught to rate records and assemble advertisements.
Other courses offered to the student interested in interpretation include Speaking to Inform and Persuade, Extemporaneous Speaking, Training in Human Relations, Oral Interpretation of Prose and Poetry, Dramatic Interpretation, and Solo and Duet Acting.
Debate courses are offered for both the beginner and more advanced debater. For out-of-state debates the National Debate topic is used. The topic this year is: Resolved, that the federal government should establish, finance, and administer programs to control air and water pollution in the United States.
Material used in the interpretation classes is selected with joint approval of teacher and student.
A Readers Theatre performance will be presented by the interpretation campers on July 23.
centage of income tax revenues to the states.
Because of a Kansas law concerning debate, a different topic is used by the Kansas debater. The Kansas debate shop workshop is using the topic: Resolved, that the federal government should return a specified per-
The debaters are busy preparing their cases for the audio cross-examination debate between the camp champions and camp winners from the University of Denver, scheduled for July 25 and 26.
The speech students have been hard at work learning the fundamentals of their field. The reason for their dedication might best be described with Daniel Webster's words, "If all my possessions and powers were to be taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of speech, for by it I could soon recover all the rest."
Campers honor Sadie Hawkins
By CAROL DORGE Kamper Kansan Reporter
There is not much written about when the first Sadie Hawkins dance was held.
Sometime after the initial publication of Al Capp's comic strip, "Lil' Abner," in 1934, a national "Sadie Hawkins Day"—a sort of "annual leap-year day on which the girls chase the boys" (as "World Book" describes it)—was proclaimed. Soon schools all over the country began having once-a-year Sadie Hawkins dances where it became the girl's prerogative to ask a boy.
The KU camp has picked up this tradition and on Saturday, July 11, hundreds of campers turned out for the event.
Pat Taylor and the camp stage
Flag-raising camper style
By GEORGE DeTAR Kamper Kansan Reporter
"Well, I was here last year and did it then. I just thought that I might as well help out with the flag this year too."
This is the reason Carl Baskin, an art camper from Highland Park, Ill., gave for volunteering to get up early every morning, along with two other campers, to raise the flag on the mast in front of Lewis Hall.
People living in Lewis who leave their dorm windows open at night probably have heard a fourth person, Geary Rachael, who plays his trumpet at the 6 a.m. flag hoisting. Rachael, who comes from Denton, Tex., is a first trumpet in the music camp and sums up his reasons for the early morning routine as: "I like to play music, any time."
Kenneth Marshall, a Latin student from Cullowhee, N.C., and Jim Giorgi, a Latin Camper from New York City, are the other two who take care of the flag raising.
band were in charge of entertainment. The stage band, made up of about 20 campers who were chosen because of special ability at tryouts during the first week of camp, has its main purpose in allowing these especially talented students to practice new material which they would normally not be able to do. This band already has given one concert and plans to play for the formal this coming Saturday, July 18.
"The Blues Rail," a band from Topeka made up of campers and non-campers also played Saturday night.
Sometime during a pause in the activity, Tom Aber, a camper from Kansas City, Mo., who plays the bass clarinet in Concert Band, began to play his bagpipes while some of his friends, dressed in Scottish kilts, danced along.
Another highlight of the evening was the costume competition. Although Russell L. Wiley, camp director, was not present to judge the zany Dogpatch costumes, winners were chosen. The individual winner was Neil Presnell, and the "best-dressed" couple was Maril Lain and David Young. The winners will each receive a $3 gift certificate at the Kansas Union.
Journalists go to Kansas City
Sleepy journalism campers boarded the Greyhound buses Tuesday, July 14, for a field trip to different media centers in Kansas City and Independence, Missouri.
The first stop was the Truman Memorial Library in Independence. The rest of the morning was spent on a tour of the radio and TV station WDAF. A nearby park was the scene for a rest break and box lunches. Reserved for the afternoon was a visit to the Kansas City Star, which supplied the buses for the trip.
Photo by Ken Meade
Man, this is where it's at! Li'l Abners jive with their Daisy Maes at the Sadie Hawkins Dance.