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FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 117 (USPS 650-640)
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House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan government, slapping aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new b.c. for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222-210 defeat must be reversed.
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He vowed to shift his campaign today to the Senate in a bid to salvage the request, which called for $70 million in military assistance and $30 million in non-lethal aid.
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Cranston's count showed 43 Republicans and five Democrats supporting Reagan, with 34 Democrats and seven Republicans opposing the aid. Among the undecided, he said five were leaning against.
Wednesday to withhold all but crucially needed military supplies for 90 days while pursuing peace talks with the Sandinistas.
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Alan Cranston of California, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, forecast the House vote could spur anti-aid sentiment and reported votes had begun shifting within hours.
From an initial tally of 49 for, 40 against and 11 undecided on the initial $100 million package, Cranston and Dixon each bought 48-41 for the aid with 11 undecided.
Ridgely Schlemm, SCA member and St. Louis, Mo., senior, said, "You run into people from scholars to street cleaners."
Schlemm said, "In Lawrence, I do find that most of the people I associate with socially are SCA folk."
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Martha John, Columbia, Mo.
junior, said for her that was a
drawing point of the group.
Schlemm said, "First and foremost, there's got to be a love of the Middle Ages."
"A lot of the attraction, I think, is the friendships I've made," John said. "You tend to form friendships because you're all interested in the same things."
Alyson Burnett, Overland Park junior, said members were interested in activities such as dancing, needlework and fighting rather than the passiveness of watching television, for example.
Second, Schlemm said, "It's a temporary escape."
Events are scheduled somewhere in the region — called the Kingdom of Calontir — every weekend through June, according to Bruce Rawitch, leader of the Lawrence SCA group.
The kingdom includes Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and part of Arkansas.
At events, members converge upon the site, where they usually show their work in the arts and sciences, feast and fight with rattan weapons and steel armor.
Burnett said, "I suppose SCA is sort of an escapist kind of thing. You kind of step away from your other life."
Schlemm agreed, "For a weekend or a day, all of the problems that weigh on your mind are gone.
"The 20th century can cease to exist from time to time."
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Burnett that at events she also sometimes felt a little closer to the Middle Ages than to this century.
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Alyson Burnett, Overland Park junior, and Bruce Rawitch, Overland Park senior, pose in their homemade medieval garb and armor near Potter Lake. Both are KU SCA members.
"It is so magical to see those people and say that I'm a part of that," she said. "It's just magical."
Lawrence SCA members are planning an event, called "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," for May 31 in South Park. It will include a feast and an arts and sciences competition as well as a fighting tournament.
Wherever they go, the flash and the thuds of the society's fights draw the most attention to the society, members say.
The blows are real, but the society has strict armor safety standards to prevent injuries.
Jennene Rohr, Topeka sophomore, said, "You acknowledge a blow if you get one. Like if you get a clean blow to the arm, you no longer use that arm because you know in real life it would be gone."
Imagining the sword's actual slicing power with the weight of a man behind it adds to the reality.
Fights and other activities at the Renaissance Festival, where many of the members perform, also attracts interest from "mundanes," SCA's name for people not in the group.
Borton, who works in the cataloguing department of Watson Library, later said, "Right now we have our largest membership ever."
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Of society members, she said,
"These people are actually studying and learning about what they do."
With a portable stereo proviing medieval music as background, he talked about the stereotypical Viking as opposed to the actual one.
Rohr said, "The Renaissance Festival is kind of dulped up to meet the expectations of the mundanes. You have a lot of fluff, and there's no substance behind it."
And menbers of the group can earn awards for different levels of achievement and for service to the group.
Staunch membership right now, he said, is mostly from graduate students. He said he thought that might be because it took awhile for students to learn about the group.
At each of the society's weekly meetings, a member presents a "Medieval Moment," a lesson on the Middle Ages.
Some members said that non-members sometimes didn't understand the group.
The group has 26 members, Borton said, most of whom are KU students.
Schiemm said, "Everybody in SCA basically comes to realize within the first month that people are going to look at you funny."
Dick Borton, faculty adviser, spoke about Vikings at a recent society meeting.
This may have the effect of teaching members how to explain their group, he said.
The size has fluctuated over the years, Borton said.
"We all really want to make sure that everyone knows that we're not really crazy," he said.
Many members moved and joined the group from other areas, he said.
Members sometimes are heckled by mundanes, Schlemm said, but the SCA's label of mundane isn't necessarily derogatory.
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