Thursday, Feb. 27, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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New board members announced by SUA
Student Union Activities announced last week the selection of its new board members for the 1986-87 year.
Mike Lauer, Seneca junior, was named president, and Mike Brown, Overland Park junior, was named vice president, Margaret Palmer, Independence junior, was named the new secretary, and John Heeney, Topeka junior, was named treasurer.
Gary Price, Wilmette, Ill., junior, was named board member in charge of films, and Victor Osmolak, Glenview, Ill., junior, was named board member in charge of forums. Charles Palmer, Independence freshman, was named indoor recreation board member, and Peggy Brien, Lenexa sophomore, was named fine arts board member.
Brent Padgett, Greenleaf junior, was named outdoor recreation board member, and Jennifer Dunbar, Gillette, Wyo., senior, was named public relations board member.
Steve Traxler, Overland Park sophomore, was named special events board member, and Ty Drake, Los Angeles sophomore, was named travel board member.
2 stipends created
Two new Chancellors Club teaching professorships have been created by the Kansas University Endowment Association's executive committee, the Endowment Association announced yesterday.
Chancellors Club professors
receive $5,000 in stipends each year
One professorship will be filled at the Lawrence campus and the other will be filled at the University of Kansas Medical Center or the University of Kansas School of Medicine at Wichita. Recipients will be announced at convocation in August.
Nominees should be faculty members at one of the campuses. The office of academic affairs will distribute information about nomination procedures.
Applicants are judged on teaching ability, use of innovative and thorough teaching materials, and recognition of excellence by students and colleagues.
Bomb threat at store
Customers were evacuated from a Dillon's grocery store, 1312 W. Sixth St. Tuesday afternoon after the store received a bomb threat. No bomb was found, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said the store received a call at about 3:20 p.m. claiming a bomb had been planted in the store. The store was evacuated then.
Art Werth, manager of the store,
said police searched the store for
about 40 minutes before they
determined there was no bomb.
Customers then were allowed into
the store, he said.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and windy with a high temperature in the mid-40s. Northerly winds will gust at at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight should be clearing with a low temperature in the lower 20s. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high temperature of 40 to 45.
From staff and wire reports
Groups aim to perfect skits for opening night
Rock Chalk
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer
It's a competition, a show, an entertaining spoof and a lot of hard work for the ten groups who've combined efforts for the 1986 Rock Chalk Revue.
Ten fraternities and sororites will perform five 17-minute musical skits starting at 7:30 tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium.
The work began in September when various groups who wanted to participate submitted their ideas for the performances to a jury. The groups were given the theme "Games People Play" and had to
The Delta Chi fraternity and Alpha Delta Pi sorority came up with the skit "Neuron My Mind." The 46 performers are in groups wearing yellow, green, lavender, blue and red costumes. Each color represents a part of the brain.
compose a musical performance to match the theme.
Clint Van Trease, Garden City freshman and performer in the act, said the story was about a boy and a girl who spot each other in class; their emotions are mixed. Some parts of their brains try to get them together while other parts try to break them apart.
"Finally all girl and boy neurons get mixed together," Van Tarese
said. "We've spent a lot of late nights working on the act and I think it looks really good."
Scott Swenson, KU graduate and producer, said there were still some rough edges in the performances. But he thought the performers would derive a lot of energy from having a live audience and would improve the performance.
"Rock Chalk is supposed to be a spoof," Swenson said. "It's kind of a vaudeville performance, rather than a polished kind of 'Chorus Line' production. That's part of what makes this fun for the performers and the audience alike."
uniform and long blond wig. He said his parents would attend Saturday night's performance and probably would be a little surprised to see his costume. Kennedy will perform in the Phi Delta Theta-Kappa Kappa Gamma show, "Back To Pair O' Dice."
"It been a fantastic experience, but I really have to hit the books next week," Kennedy said. "We've been rehearsing late for the last couple of weeks."
The other segments of the show are "Chariots Afire," The Kappa Psi-Alpha Chappa Omega; "Bunge in the Jungle," Kappa Sigma-Gamma Phi Beta; and "Picking Up the Pieces," Delta Upsilon-Kappa Alpha Theta.
The revue also has five In Between Acts.
But the groups consider the time and effort worthwhile. Sixty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Lawrence United Fund. The remaining 40 percent will be used first to meet production costs and a provide a donation for the band. What still remains will be divided among the groups to cover their expenses.
Ron McCurdy, director of the band accompanying the performance, said that three years ago, Rock Chalk Revue's band performance was organized as a class.
Harmonizers '86 Revue's added stars
"Having it as a class makes for a better, more consistent performance." McCurdy said.
By Alison Young Special to the Kenne
Special to the Kansan
Harmonic Function, a group of four creoons who will perform in tonight's Rock Chalk Revue, couldn't even get an audition for the show two years ago. This year they are one of its highlights, a Rock Chalk director said recently.
Pam Jones, Rock Chalk In-Between Acts co-director, said Harmonic Function, an a capella vocal ensemble, and Rex Boby, juggler and comedian, would be featured in the variety show. This will be the first time in the show's 33-year history that acts not formed specifically for the show will perform as part of the In-Between Acts.
Scott Swenson, Rock Chalk producer, said that originally skepticism had arisen about the format change. In the past, a troupe of dancers and singers were the only preformers in the In-Between Acts.
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity per-
Harmonic Function sings original arrangements of songs from the late '50s and '60s.
"Big Chill stuff," Marty Wall, Parkville,Mo., senior and member of the group.said.
In his Rock Chalk act, he will juggle items such as a bowling ball, a tennis racquet, and clubs. He also incorporated basketballs into his routine in honor of the Javhaws.
Steve Smith, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Richard Turner, Kansas City, Kan., senior; and Lennie Wesley, Wichita junior, are the other members of the group.
Boyd, an Overland Park sophomore, is a professional juggler and has performed at nightclubs in Westport in Kansas City, Mo., and has done street theatre in the Kansas City area and Chicago.
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Jones said. "We've tried to bring in people who wouldn't usually be in Rock Chalk Revue. We want to involve as many parts of campus as possible."
Wall said an audition was set up two years ago, but Rock Chalk officials did not show up for the
Auditions were held in November for individual acts and In-Between Acts troupe members.
appointments.
John Allison, Rock Chalk executive director, said he didn't know of that instance, in but past years, InBetween Acts were not open to individual acts.
form during dress rehearsal for Rock Chalk Revue
Jones said it took a lot of encouragement and several phone calls to get the group to audition this year.
Turner said, "Rock Chalk was our ultimate dream."
Harmonic Function received an enthusiastic response at first run
through of the show Sunday night. Within the first few bars of their opening number, "Under the Boardwalk," there were cheers and whistles from the audience of about 200 cast members. And for each of the two songs that followed, they were given standing ovations.
The group does not use sheet music and only one member, Wesley, has had formal vocal training.
For both Harmonic Function and Boyd, Rock Chalk is the biggest performance of their careers.
Boyd, who has performed at Stanford & Sons in Westport and at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, said Rock Chalk would be a good chance to improve his skills as a performer. He plans to spend next year performing his act on the streets of Chicago and New York.
Jones said she was pleased with Bovid's act.
"He's very crowd-adaptable," she said.
Pro-choice groups oppose abortion bill
Staff writer
By Abbie Jones
TOPEKA — Pro-choice advocates huddled in the corner of a packed Senate committee room yesterday preparing for day two of testimony on a bill requiring parental consent for minors to get abortions.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard opponents of an amendment that would require girls under the age of 18 to obtain consent of their parents for abortions.
On Tuesday, the committee heard testimony from proponents of the bill, many of whom said that girls under 18 were not old enough to make a decision to have an abortion.
Melissa Ness, a law student at Washburn University in Topeka and a board member of the National Abortion Rights Action League in Washington, yesterday said, "This is strictly an attempt to constrict the rights of minors to obtain an abortion.
"Adolescents are a group of few rights and remedies under our existing laws."
said the committee could debate and take action on the bill Monday or Tuesday.
State Sen. Ed Reilly, Jr., R-Leavenworth,
The bill also prohibits performing an abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy or in anywhere other than a hospital or licensed surgical center.
The bill says an aggravated criminal abortion is one performed by anyone other than a doctor or without first obtaining the written consent of the parents in custody of the minor.
Ness said some minors were victims of incest and may need the medical alternative. She did not agree with anti-abortion pleas that the bill would help family communication.
"A parent's right to know in comparison pales to the adolescent's need to obtain sound medical advice." she said.
Adele Hughey, executive director for Comprehensive Health Associates of Overland Park, park said appearing before a judge could slow the process and cause more second trimester abortions that may be more dangerous.
Under the bill, any minor who wants an abortion has the alternative of going to a district court judge, who may waive the consent requirement. If a medical emergency exists, the parental and judicial consent may be waived.
"Going before a judge is not going to help the family." Hughey said.
Mike Cavell, a member of Kansans For Life who testified before the committee Tuesday, said yesterday that a minor would appear before a judge no later than 10 days after she filed for the judicial waiver.
"I see no problem in allowing a little lee time for the child to be counseled." Cavell said.
Pat Goodson, a spokesman for the Right to Life of Kansas who spoke at the beginning of yesterday's meeting, said the committee should strike the emergency portion of the bill because it took away parental powers.
"Right to Life of Kansas strongly believes in the right for parents to counsel their child," she
The penalty for conducting an aggravated abortion would be made a class B felony under
Anne Moriarty, a lobbyist for the Kansas National Organization for Women, said groups on opposing sides of the issue should work together to take steps to stop unwanted pregnancies before they start.
Class D felonies are punishable by a minimum sentence of no less than one year. Class B felons receive a minimum sentence of no less than five years.
"Abortion is not the problem," she said. "Sex is not the problem. Teenage pregnancy is the problem."
the proposed bill. Present law says it is a class D felony.
"Let's not get in a hurry," Ott said. "Let's see what the Supreme Court will say."
Belva Ott, public affairs director for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, said the committee should wait for legislation nationally regarding parental consent.