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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 25, 1987
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Barbara ijams, Topeka resident, far left, leads a class through the basics of contract bridge. Ijams, a member of the American Contract Bridge League, taught the first class in an eight—week course last night in the Kansas Union.
Bridge class teaches skills
By NOEL GERDES
When Mary Lux was in college, she played bridge all the time.
"But that was 50 years ago," Lux, a Topeka resident and bridge enthusiast, said last night.
Lux was an observer last night at the first session of a new bridge class in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union. The class, which is sponsored by the KU Bridge Club and sponsored by the Contract Bridge League, will be held for eight weeks. Students can enroll from SUA until March 3.
"In the '30s there was not a whole lot of money to spend." Lux said, "so bridge was good entertainment for an evening. Girls and boys would play bridge on a double date."
But dating has changed since the 1930s.
Mike Ferguson, Topeka senior and bridge club member, said, "I know people who date each other in real life. They don't play bridge on dates."
Ferguson said that he played bridge for fun and relaxation and to meet people.
"When you play chess you have just one opponent," he said, "but you're going to meet about 14 players in an average tournament."
Cindy Pronko, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, said that she enrolled because her parents and her boyfriend played bridge and because learning from a book was too boring.
"Bridge is fun," Pronko said,
"but it's tough because during bidding, you have to tell your partner what cards you have without actually saying which cards
they are. It involves a lot of strategy and a lot of memorization."
Ferguson said that he learned to play bridge to keep up with his friends as a freshman. Now he plays with the KU Bridge Club on Tuesdays, in weekend tournaments. He's also Wescoe Cafeteria during the week.
Four to eight players usually show up in the cafeteria during their lunch hours, play five or six games and then leave for class, he said.
Barbara Ijams, a Topoka resident and an instructor, will be teaching the group of about 15 people basic contract bridge. But she said her eventual goal was to get younger people interested in duplicate bridge.
Committee approves requests
By a Kansan reporter
The Student Senate Finance Committee passed four bills last night but tabled discussion of revenue code group budgets until its March 3 meeting.
Instead, committee members worked to clarify definitions concerning revenue code groups in preparation for the hearings.
Amy Randles, engineering senator, spoke for a bill to grant $277 to the KU India Club to pay for a spring festival of colors, other cultural
events and printing costs for three newsletters. The committee passed the bill, but only after amending it to $225 after eliminating postage costs.
Randles argued that because most of the 120 members of the club live off-campus, the $52 the group had requested for postage was necessary.
But Ann Hiszczynsky, committee member, said the committee did not allocate money to any organization for postage because some organizations in the past had used stamps for personal correspondence.
The committee budgeted $740 to
the university Senate Human Relations Committee for supplies, rent and utilities for a humanities week. "Together We're Better."
The finance committee also passed a $846 bill to pay for balloons, advertising, campus facilities, equipment costs and copying and mailing expenses for an outdoor arts fair on Jayhawk Boulevard scheduled for April 15.
A $150 bill to cover advertising costs for a lecture by James Seaver on the opera "Madame Butterfly" also passed the committee.
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