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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 10, 1989
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Students dance in music video
The Rainmakers perform "Spend it on Love" for a new video.
by Rias Mohamed Kansan staff writer
Steve Bryce-Holtzman and some other KU students yesterday took the easy way to get on MTV.
They formed part of the audience and danced their way into the Rainmakers' video taping of a song at the Centron Corp. Inc. 1621
"I want to be on the video. It's not every day you get to see on the video that's seen by millions of people," said Bryce Holtman, Lawrence sophmore. "The Rainmakers are a very original band. You can't place them in any other band." They don't copy anybody. They are not a political band. But they just try to get a message across."
The Rainmakers were filming the song "Spend it on Love," which is the first video of their new album, Good News and Bad News. The album will be released next summer, and later in the United States.
Singer Bob Walkenhorst said the band chose Lawrence primarily because a studio was available on short notice.
"It is also one of the better- equipped places." he said.
Two of the Rainmakers' four earlier videos were recorded in Minneapolis, one was recorded at a concert in Kansas City, Mo., and the other was recorded on tour in Chicago.
Two were filmed in Minneapolis because the band's management company, Good Music Agency Inc. is in Minneapolis.
Flash Frame, a New York-based video production company, hired free-lance producers for yesterday's filming. The video could be said to few as three weeks, said Rich Ruth, one of the band's guitarists.
Walkenhorst, who writes lyrics for the band, said the biggest difference between the band's earlier songs and "Spend It on Love" is that "Spend it on Love" had a social theme.
Marcy Hall, Kansas City, Kan. junior, said she came to see the filming because she did lighting for her father's band in which her father, played
"I thought it would be kind of neat to come and see this," she said.
Lisa Gidley, a University of
Missouri freshman who went to the same school as guitarist Steve Phillips, said she came to Lawrence especially to be on the video Gidley, a fan of the Rainmakers since 1986, said she was a big supporter of the band in Scarndinavia and its United Kingdom than in the United States.
Phillips said he was happy the record company, Polymag, had picked "Spend it on Love" for the album and Bad News bad 12 songs.
At least we are thinking on the
same line," he said.
The band has schedled a tour of the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland and the Soviet Union next month.
Drummer Pat Tomeck, a KU graduate who earned a master's degree in communications studies, said that while he was at college he played with fraternity bands and was the only one he joined a band called Steve, Bob and Rich, which then became the Rainmakers.
by Merceda Ares Kansan staff writer
Parking proposals are sent to Regents
Friday was the last chance for students and faculty to voice opinions about parking board proposals, but only one person had comments.
Fred Maddus, assistant to the dean of business, was the only one who questioned a proposal.
A hearing was conducted in the Kansas Union for anyone who had concerns or suggestions about the actions of the legislature, the Board of Regents (for approval).
He said that he was concerned about the parking board's proposal to charge $a a day for visitors to park at the school and to visiters to the school were recruiters.
Hooded meters are meters that are covered and reserved when a departing student arrives. Parking spaces for campus visitors. The price for hooded meters is $2 a day.
"For $2, they would have been willing to pay to park next to the building," he said. "The grumbling came when they had to walk in, get their permit and then park clear out in Lot 90."
Lot 90 is south of Robinson Center. Don Kearns, director of parking services, said that according to parking policy, the school could have as many as eight visitor parking stalls behind the school where visitors could obtain a free parking permit for the day.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said that parking services wanted to raise the fee for hooded meters from $2 a day to $4 so it would be comparable with the new parking garage's one-day fee.
Madus said that he would talk to the dean about buying the visitor permits from parking services.
"It's on our back now," Madaus said.
Kearns stressed the importance of people using the new garage.
"We want all visitors on the south side to park in that garage," he said. "We need the garage revenue."
Other proposals the Regents will consider are:
- examining the possibility of limiting traffic on Jayhawk Boulevard and determining traffic impact on surrounding neighborhoods.
- removing 400 meters from Lot 90 behind Robinson Center.
- charging $60 more than the normal parking permit fee to park in the new parking garage.
- changing 15 yellow stalls to red in Lot 70 at the southwest corner of Allen Field House.
- ■ discontinuing blue permits for emeritus faculty and instead giving them a free red permit or a blue permit for half the price, $35.
- eliminating red zone designation by Oliver Hall and moving the five red spaces to Lot 112, north of Oliver Hall.
Coalitions have different platforms but same goal
- having 24-hour reserve parking for key administrators.
- requiring faculty and staff to purchase permits for which they qualify.
- changing from yellow to red Lot 106, across the Irving Hill Road bridge; the northeast half of Lot 206, east of Nichols Hall; Lot 215, east of McCollum Laboratories; Lot 217, west of McCollum Laboratories; Research Laboratories; Lot 222 beside the glass-blowing shop; and Lot 200, west of the Printing Service.
- changing 20 spaces from red to blue in Lot 39 behind Spencer Research Library.
- Adding 25 red stalls to Lot 50 behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Members plan to implement diversity goal
Student body presidential and vice presidential candidates for the On Track coalition are, left, Kenneth Babcock, Wheaton junior, and Byron Webster, Maryville, Mo., freshman.
by Stan Diel Kansan staff writer
"We think expanding the diversity program here at the University is what is most important to students," I said. "We've been a student body presidential candidate."
Ken Babcock and Byron Webster think Student Senate is on track with its Celebrate Diversity program, but it needs to do better. They have already done it, though it's tough.
"In our opinion it should be more, than just a month and then 'OK,' we're done with diversity.' " Babcock said.
Babcock and Webster, Maryville, Mo. freshman and vice presidential candidate, said an International Center on campus would be one way to further the goals of the diversity program.
"It would not isolate but centralize the international offices like study abroad and the foreign student affairs office," Babcock said. "It would be a place where students can get interested in knowing about other's backgrounds."
"Basically we would organize international students to make them a more effective population on campus."
Webster said an international center also could serve to educate students about foreign cultures.
"We also talked about having a display area to display art work and crafts from different countries." Webster said.
Babcock said that an international center was proposed to the administration in 1985, but was not built. He added that it is more important there is more support today he said.
"Our coalition is for giving this issue support, to say, 'Yes the KU students want this center on campus.' " Babcock said.
"Environs is an excellent group and they've got a great project," Babcock said. "But I'm not sure Environs has time and manpower to promote and manage such a large project. It will turn out to be a very sizable project if it's done effectively."
Babcock said On Track also supported a more comprehensive recycling project. Student Senate would pay the salaries of a few managers for one or two years, then the administration would take over, he said.
"Once you start working, you find Out Senate is very effective in certain areas but not effective in others, such as the implementation of the budget." Babcock said.
"I wanted to run to make it effective in as many areas as possible."
Babcock, who serves on the Student Senate Finance Committee, said he would work to improve Senate of elected.
Coalition says issue of tuition sets them apart
by Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
Bryan Swan and James Fischer of the Progressive Idealist coalition entered the race for student body offices on the last day to file.
They did not think it was right that one coalition's candidates might win by default.
"We jumped in mainly because of the UDK article saying Common Cause was running unopposed," said Jeffrey Scholten, chairman and vice presidential candidate.
Guliana Nakashima/Special to the KANSAN
Student body presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Progressive idealist Coalition are Bryan Swan, Topeka junior, left, and James Fischer, Palmdale, Calif., freshman.
"We thought students should have a choice."
Swan and Fischer are the only two members of the coalition.
They said the Progressive Idealist choice included deferred tuition, parking reform and a significant increase in pupus representation in Senate Student.
"We feel the greek community, the scholarship halls and the residence halls should have more input in what students in Student Senate." Fischer said.
"Senators are elected from the schools right now and most of the constituency doesn't know exactly who their senators are. They're not quite sure who to go to with their problems."
better represented
"We're not seeking to take representation away from the professional schools but to balance it between the two. Other senators like non-traditionalists and off-campus would still have their seats."
that we plan to do is to give all the residence halls and scholarship halls and Greek houses a senator like one from where they live." Swan said.
Fischer said the proposed reform would mean better representation for minorities.
Swan said specific regarding how many senators each living group would get and whether that number would be increased population would be worked out later.
Swan said students could pay 20 to 25 percent of their tuition at fee payment and pay the rest in installments during the semester.
"I think the one issue that separates us from the other coalitions is that we want to offer a deferred tuition policy." Swan said.
Swan also said there was not enough parking on campus so students were forced to violate the rules.
Swan and Fischer also advocate a deferred tuition program.
“There’s no place to park, you take a chance and get a ticket.” Swan said. “There’s absolutely no regulation on yellow-zone parking. They oversell constantly. There should be a certain ratio.”
"We want to encourage a spirit of cooperation in Student Senate. No matter who is elected, we're here to support for the student body." Fischer said
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At noon Joseph Y. Battat of Indiana University will speak on Culture and Mixed Economic Performance in China Today.
At 1:00 p.m. Clyde D. Stoltenberg of the University of Michigan will speak on
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