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Friday, April 13, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Good Friday the 13th crosses wary fingers
Bv LESLIE GUILD
By LESLIE GUILLE Staff Reporter
For some, today means trouble.
Not only are the traditional superstitions of Friday the 13th in effect, but today also is observed as the Christian holy day of Good Friday.
According to Christian mythology, the misfortune and bad luck associated with Friday the 18th originated from the first week of crucifixion, which occurred on the 13th.
Oliver Phillips, associate professor of classics, said Fridays traditionally had been considered bad luck.
"Any Friday can be considered bad, in that the crucifixion took place on a Friday," he said. "On top of that, the crucifixion must have always been associated with bad luck."
PHILLIPS SAID Friday also had other religious implications.
"Friday had been the day that some followers of the Christian religion had fasted," she said. "This definitely implies that the crucifixion occurred on a Friday."
Mark Hoelker, pastor at University Lutheran Church, 2014 W. 18th St., said he was not aware of a connection between him and the superstitions of Friday the 13th.
"In what I've read, nothing like that appears," he said. "And I don't think
that a genuine connection can be drawn between the two. Thirteens are just, thought of as unlucky."
Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of history and art history, said no one really could be sure whether the crucifixion took place on a Friday the
"We can't know the original date," Banks said. "It could be, but no concrete evidence exists."
HOWEVER, BANKS said most students still associated Friday the 13th with bad things.
However, several students said they were not superstitious.
"It's strictly a tradition of superstition to most," she said. "Things like ladders, cats and bad luck are what occur to most."
"I'm really not that superstitious," Donna Connell, Leavenworth junior, said. "I did notice that it was Friday the 13th and I didn't associate with Good-Friend."
Kim Schrag, McPherson junior, said,
"I just pass it off as another day. I guess
I'm not superstitious at all."
Another student, Pat McAnany, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said he tried to ignore superstitions.
"I wouldn't even think twice about walking under a ladder if I saw one," he said.
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Dzurella said a head man dancer, Tommy Chaino, from Owasso, Okla, said the powow.
"There is a certain amount of prestige in be a head dancer anywhere," he said, "and our head in bead drum hasn't danced anywhere in four years. He more or less retired, but he is going to dance for us."
"It would be an experience for the non-indian. Maybe they could gain some respect and awareness of Indian perceptions."
He said the 200-member Native American Alliance was based on the assumption that non-Idiots and the Indians are not part of the United States.
THE HEAD DANCER opens the powwow by dancing the first dance.
Dzurella said there were 85 Indian students at KU. The organization is open to anyone on campus, he said.
"He is the focal point. Everyone looks to him to lead them."
"We try to choose people who will bring a lot of people with them," he said.
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Dzurella said the public was welcome to attend the powwow.
By SHIRLEY SHOUP
Dancing to highlight KU Powwow
"This is the time of year when people are having a lot of powwow's," he said. "We just want to let Lawrence and KU know we are here. We can't go around dressed in traditional dress every day."
Dzurella said the guest dancers probably would bring many friends and family members.
The third annual KU Powwow will start tonight as the Native American Alliance hosts Indian dancers.
Dana Dzurella, the alliance's treasurer, said the powwow was a celebration of spring and a way to publicize the work.
Dzurella said the head woman dancer would be Dee Gutterez, from Horton.
In conjunction with the powwow there will be booths for Indian craftsmans at the community center.
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The alliance also is sponsoring a basketball tournament of Indian teams at West Junior High School. KU and Haskell Indian Junior College are among the 16 teams entered in the tournament.
Dizurella told those who were too old to do the faster fancy dancing often danced the Gourd Dance.
Durella said the pownw clock was very loose, but generally would be from 10 to 11 tonight and from room 5 to room 6.
"We want to try to educate the non-Indian community about our people and traditions," he said.
Gourd dancing originated in the southern plains but now has spread through all the tribal grounds, he said.
Perkins said a four-man crew would be turning room thermostats from the winter setting of 68 degrees to the summer setting of 78 degrees. The crew also will be turning off steam-heating systems in the buildings that use steam for heat.
At night, Indian "fancy" dancing will be featured. A Gaurd Court will be held tomorrow afternoon.
The heat in most KU buildings will be turned off and the air-conditioning systems will be turned on next week. Richard Perkins, associate director of plant maintenance, said yesterday.
"The Gourd Dance involves a different style of dancing than the fancy dancing," he said. "The costumes are different."
"A powwow is usually unstructured and just flows," he said.
“If the weather remains cold we might wait a few days before we begin work.”
"Indians aren't looking at each other as tribes so much now. It's gotten to the point where it doesn't matter. Indians just get together and participate in each other's celebrations," he said.
DIFFERENT INDians have different dancing styles and different dancers, he said but most Indians see them as "uncomfortable."
materials to repair the air conditioners use spring. However, he said the contract work would save the University a lot of money in repairs this summer.
"In the past we had to go through a bidding system for any work that had to be done on the air conditioners," he said. "Now the service work is done on a nearly basis."
"We get labor at a lower cost per hour and there is a one-year warranty on all service work done." Perkins said. "Two summers ago, Waworth Hill's air conditioning unit broke and we have to repair it. It costs a lot of money to keep the machines going and the spring repairs help."
Perkins said, "Otherwise, work will begin next week."
Perkins said Facilities Operations wanted to have most of the campus' air-conditioning systems ready for operation by Sunday. The new facility would be filled by Blake Halls it would not be ready by then.
"The two units at Learned are being put back in the air conditioner to be going next," Perkins said. The part of the air conditioner at Snow Hall just came in and we'll be finishing it and starting work on it.
and the parts inspected. The work done on air conditioners was so extensive that KU let the work out on a service contract this week to Bubeck Trane, from Kansas City, Mo.
Perkins said that every three to five years KU's air conditioners had to be torn down
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KU Black Student Union to host interschool council
Representatives of black student organizations from Big Eight conference schools will be on the KU campus this week. The Black Student Union, hosted by the KU Black Student Union.
One resolution, Ivory said, would have students draft a letter to the major
The school's representatives will discuss resolutions brought up at the big Eight Council meeting, which will inform which their organizations attended in February in Norman, Oklaho, according to the department's official website.
television networks protesting television shows on the air about bovines. Ivory said the network was "not responsible."
A resolution concerning the rate of retention of black students in universities affords support.
The council representatives will meet from 8:30 to 11 today in the Regionalist Hotel Room and from 11:30 to 12:30 in the International Room. They will meet again at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the In-
The conference is open to all students.
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