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Today: Mostly cloudy, chance of thunderstorms high will be 80 degrees,the low will be 66 degrees.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and humid,high of 85 degrees,low will be 66 degrees.
Weekend: There will be a chance of thunderstorms daily,with highs in the low 90s,lows about 65
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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No. 146
(USPS 650-640)
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Staff writer
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk is now the only smokestack is dying a slow death.
ition began JB contractors, we week, should I completely torr weeks, dependi Two smokest above the roof of replace the 245 has been a KU he said.
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
He had one vice, however; he snaked quite a bit, like a chimney, in his waist.
By PAUL BELDEN
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped find out-of-towers find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
Tom Andersen ties and operati planned to hat the internal wo first, then dem But, he said coordinate the than originally Part of the re more likely tha completed and on line before Anderson said.
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Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct.15,depending on the weather.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets
New vice chancellor selected
By CARLA PATINO
Staff writer
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice cchancellor search committee.
IN FOCUS
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest ranking administrator on campus.
She will replace Shanker, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January, when the resignation of
You can call me Nicole ..
Story by Jerri Niebaum
Three pairs of Sheer Energy pantyhose, a pile of makeup, a curly wig and a sparkly dress, and it's show time for "Nicole Porter."
"After it's all over, I just usually shake their hand and say, 'happy birthday' in my deepest, most masculine voice." Munkars said.
Munkins, 32, is one of two female impersonators who deliver strip-o-grams for the Mabel H. singing team at the annual Mabel H. singing competition.
In a size 7 dress and a pair of women's size $7 \frac{1}{2}$ high-heeled shoes, Porter dances as a refined redhead, a sophisticated brunette or a sexy blonde.
Unsuspecting birthday boys gets a shock when sexy Nicole becomes smiling Bill Munkirs, Kansas City, Mo., after he strips away his black feather boa, black and gold evening gown and padded corset, revealing a pair of male pectorals.
Mabel H. is named for Mabel Hite, a Kansas City actress who left the Midwest to make it big on Broadway around the turn of the century.
People would talk for days about the famous actress. Today, people talk for days after they see the men who can dress and dance like women.
Gail Bronfman, 1984 KU graduate and manager of Mabel H. said, "When female impersonators bolt down to the ground, they get
She said Munkirs was even better at putting on makeup than most women she knew.
"There's an underground culture of men who do this," she said.
"We really want to get this guy," she said, imitating a typical customer. They usually do get him and the rest of the unsuspecting audience as well.
He was convincing enough that his friends talked him into competing at a female-impersonation contest at a Kansas City bar later that year. Munkirs wore second place.
Bronfman has watched Munkins perform his gag stripetease several times. She said revenge usually motivated the subject's friends to hire the female impersonator.
Munkirs first dressed as a woman for a Halloween party seven years ago. He wanted to see whether he could pull it off.
The prize got him a paid job performing a lip-synch dance routine at the bar, and Munkins soon found himself with a closet full of women's clothes and jobs to wear them to.
"People scream and laugh in absolute shock," Bronten said.
"I didn't really pursue this," he said. "It just came to me."
Munkirs has been performing three-minute dances for the service for about two years
"It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it," Munkins said.
He used that line to pacify a 17-year-old subject who told him, "You should be ashamed of your-
Most of Munkirs' customers don't get upset, however. They just open their eyes, drop their iaws and stare at him.
He said one man danced with him and thoroughly enjoyed the show until the end. Then he just stared and fell forward on his face.
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"Their reaction is what makes it worthwhile." Munkirs said, imitating the wide-eyed stares he gets.
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