Monday, April 3, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Students use paint to 'shoot to kill'
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
In a field south of Lawrence, soldiers dove into creeks, crawled through underbrush and hid in trees. They shot at opponents with paint guns and tried to capture enemy flags to win a survival game.
But the real winner was the American Cancer Society, which received $500 from Delta Chi fraternity's philanthropy tournament Saturday.
"We had a lot of fun and did OK for the tournament's first year," said Chris Ball. Delta Chi member and one of the organizers of the tournament. "Fraternities, sororities, residence halls and Navy, Marine and
Teams raise $500 for cancer
Air Force ROTC all sponsored teams."
The 14 participating teams each paid $125 to enter the tournament. He said it was not expensive to individu-
alize teams because each team had 10 players.
Ball, Springfield. Mo. freshman, said the games were played on fields leased by Tactical Games in rural Overbrook. Three playing fields were available so that six teams could play against the double-delimination tournament.
Teams started the game in forts at opposite ends of the playing field.
Each team displayed flags at its forts and tried to make it down the field, capture the opposite team's flag and throw it its home fort without being shot.
“Everybody were camouflage — it was a really wooded area,” said Deryck Malone, Tau Kappa Epsilon team member and Linnwood junior. “If you got hit by a paint ball that exploded on you, you were dead. Or if you were hit by splatter from a paint ball bigger than a dime, you were dead.”
Ball said that if neither team captured a flag, winners were determined by how many people on each team had been killed. If there was a tie, winners were determined by the scores, as apposes aggressives, he said.
"The top playing field was not quite as wooded as the other two," Ball said. "And two of the fields had creeks running through them. Some people went as far as to dive into the creeks to avoid being shot."
Bodbs, a team sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, won the tournament. The Navy ROTC team won the game. Chi's "house" team finished third.
trizes for first place included T-shirts and free day passes to play again.
Exhibit shows artist's humor, desolation
by Christine Winner
Kansan staff writer
A vividly colored lithograph titled "Holiday Inn" is on exhibit in the White gallery at the Spencer Museum of Art. The hotel resembles a modern-day beach house, with land, with a volcano soaring in the background.
This is one of the images of H.C. Westermann. An exhibition of his work opened yesterday and will continue through May 21.
Thirteen letters and 22 postcards and envelopes decorated with ink and watercolor drawings and addressed to Kansas City sculptor Richard Hollander make up the heart of the exhibition.
Also in the exhibit is a wooden box sent to handle with a lid canned to print a woodcut.
One sculpture, "The Hands," was lent to the museum by the Nelson-Atkinson Museum of Art in
Kansas City, Mo. Two metal sockets on poles that rise from a box that looks like it is covered with a floral tapestry. A metal block of a face, with gaping eyes and full lips, stares out in front of the
James Holmes, Lawrence sculptor, said Westernmann's experiences in World War II and the Korean War influenced the artist's work.
There are references to death and destruction in the exhibit, including a note that he wrote to Hollander on the corner of a pen-and-ink drawing of the wreckage. The note said the ship was his favorite object to draw.
narcard Gillespie, associate professor of art, said Westermann served with the Navy or the Merchant Marines during the wars and that the images of ships and the sea were recurring themes.
But Westermann also had a sense of humor
Gillespie said Westermann enjoyed the work of the cartoonist who drew the comic strip. "Krazy Kat
"Walking into this room should make people smile," Gillespie said. "If it doesn't, you're in trouble."
The cartoon influence shows up in several pieces, with the characters of Popeye in one drawing and Nancy in another. Many of the works are painted in bright watercolors.
Both Gillespie and Holmes lent several of their own pieces of Westermann's work to the exhibi-
Gillespie described Westermann as an artist not consumed by his own work, but also interested in the world of music.
"I always think of him as a street-guy artist, not a gallery artist," Gillespie said. "He had his own vision. I'd never link him to fashionable movements in art."
"Uku needs perestroika and glamost," one female observer said yesterday. "God has put Gorbache in the world, and we are grateful."
Political activity interpreted by the Communist regime as "counterrevolutionary" is punishable by long prison terms.
talks with Castro, who has openly criticized Gorbachev's pragmatic reforms, saying he borrows too much from capitalism.
Cuban security agents called a number of local dissidents to suggest they stay away from the welcoming host city. The source in the dissident community
During his visit, Gorbachev is to conduct several hours of private
The woman said she hoped Gorbahew could encourage Castro to permit more freedom in Cuba.
Soviet officials have suggested the Kremlin may reduce its massive economic and military aid to the USSR, and that it would rebuild the Soviet domestic economy.
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"We are going to discuss Fidel Castro's performance, just as he is going to discuss our own performance." Soviet spokesman Gennady Gerasimov told ABC-TV earlier day in an interview from Havana. "We will exchange views and experiences."
Soviet leader receives welcome from Cubans
In all seriousness, this day honors fools' patron saint
The Associated Press
Self-proclaimed mental midgets, led by Bishop Joey of the First Church of the Last Laugh, honored their patron and the new season Saturday in the St. Stupid's Day Parade.
SAN FRANCISCO — Let folks back east trust a groundhog. This city knows it’s spring when nests, nitrus and numskills march through the streets on April Fool’s Day to honor their patron saint.
It was either the 10th or 11th year — organizers can't remember which
— the parade has moved through the financial district to honor St. Stupid, who devotes call "patron of parking meters and banks."
"San Francisco is one of the great melting pots of stupidity."
"We wanted to absorb the aura of stupidity that seems to manifest itself downtown," said marcher David Miles.
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