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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 27, 1988
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Campaign Kansas near start
KU hopes to raise more than $100 million over five years
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
After months of planning, Campaign Kansas officially will get under way next month
On May 12, the National Council for Campaign Kansas will meet and kick off the campaign. On that day, the official projection of the amount of money the campaign plans to raise and the amount already raised will be announced, said Jim Martin, executive director of Campaign Kansas. The campaign had a tentative goal of more than $100 million.
The 400 members of the National Council, which is composed of alumni and friends of the University, will call on prospective contributors for the Kansas University Endowment to support a five-year campaign, with the volunteers doing one-on-one soliciting for two years.
Martin said that it was important for Campaign Kansas to succeed.
He said the success of the campaign was also important in the wake of the Margin of Excellence plan. The Margin, which is before the state
Legislature, is the Board of Regents three-year plan to raise funding at Regents schools to 95 percent of peer school average.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, agreed that the success of Campaign Kansas and the Margin were important. If the Legislature doesn't approve the Margin, Seymour said, then the success of Campaign Kansas is even more crucial.
"It is the upmost importance that they move ahead," Seymour said. "Both are kind of tied together."
Campaign Kansas tentative objec
fives include
■ providing about 600 million for scholarships, fellowships, endowed professorships, and support for museums and libraries.
building new University facilities such as a performing arts center and a medical fitness center for $25 million.
buying laboratory equipment for $14 million.
supporting teaching, research and service programs at a cost of $3.75 million.
supplying unrestricted funds of $28 million for needed immediate use.
Theater depicts Indian tradition
Bv Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Using song, tribal and contemporary dance, pantomime and sign language, the players of Thunderbelt Theater last night created an often whimsical vision of American Indian life through the traditional art of storytelling.
Natalie Nez, Haskell Indian Junior College freshman from Albuquerque, N.M., plays a rainbow and waits for a rainstorm in the performance "Songs of Life" by the Thunderbird Theatre.
Sandra Watt, Specialist in the KANSAN Calverly "Key" Smith, Haskell Indian Junior College sophomore from Chinle, Arizona, searches for food as he plays a wolf, "Songs of Life," a show combining tribal dances, gymnastics and pantome to express Indian storytelling, was performed last night by the Thunderbird Theatre in Woodruff Auditorium.
Thunderbird Theater, a student theater organization of Haskell Indian Junior College, presented "Songs of Life," which told traditional Indian stories from many different tribes, and "Thunder Takes a Wife," an original play written by KU theater student Owen LeBeau, Getsyburg, S.D., senior and based on a traditional Sioux story about how rainbows came to be.
The theater group, sponsored by Student Union Activities, told their stories to about 125 people in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The tales they told were about the original beings, or animal people: Coyote, Rabbit, Possum, Fox and Skunk. These beats were put on earth by the Great Spirit before man came to be.
Coyote, the trickster, was given the special task of teaching man. But Coyote made mistakes, and it was through his frequent foolishness and greed that he taught man right from wrong, said Pat Melody, the director of Thunderbird Theater.
"Coyote is still teaching us through his stories!" she said.
When Coyote's work of teaching man was finished, the Great Spirit came to take him home. When the Great Spirit left Earth with Coyote, he said they would not return until mother Earth were awake with them. Then Coyote would appear first. And then Mother Earth would be young again and all would live together in peace.
"Now my friends, we are only waiting for Coyote," the seven players said.
Thunderbird Theater began in 1974. The goal of the theater group is to explore the potential for Indian theater and train American
Indian theater professionals. Melody said.
The troup has traveled all over the United States and once performed for 7,000 people at a United Powwow in Bispark, N.D.
For the last two years, they have had a national Indian playwrighting contest and produced prize-
Melody said that they had introduced contemporary ideas such as modern dance to the more traditional ways because they wanted to reflect current as well as past traditions of American Indian life.
winning scripts. In 1985 they produced the first American Indian production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
New KU arts center is priority for drive
By Iulie Adam
Kansan staff writer
in the 1938s, when the Jayhawks played basketball in Hoch Auditorium, the audience was probably too low. When the court than the sounds in the air.
But when they relied on Hoch for a concert hall, the most important element, the reverberation of sound, was also the most disappointing ele-
The University hopes to get the money to do that during the three-year fund-raiser called Campaign Karen Walker. The university hopes to raise at least $20 million in donations, said Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor.
KU may be closer to finding a solution to the problems of Hoch if the University raises enough money for a new center.
Scaly said that a performing arts center, which would cost about $10 to $12 million, was first priority in terms of construction projects for the fund-raiser because of the inadequacies of Hoch.
Stanley Shumway, professor of music, said the problem with Hoch was that it was designed to be a hard-to-score piece up as a no-purpose auditorium.
Scall said, "It was built not as a concert hall but as a combination concert hall and basketball arena. So, it was never adequate for either one of them, but it was the only thing we could get in the 1920s."
Shumway said a good concert hall should enhance and evenly distribute sound without distorting it, which are required that Host does not [fail].
"A good concert hall is the ultimate musical instrument," he said.
Scaly said that as soon as money was donated specifically for the arts center, planning could begin.
But, Scaly said, the decision to tear down Hoch or to build a performing arts center elsewhere on campus
hasn't been made yet. The University is looking at what sites are available and what other uses Hoch could have.
"If we renovate Hoch, it would be for other purposes and we would build a new concert hall somewhere else. Hoch is a bad place for a concert hall nowadays because it is smack in the middle of campus. There's no room to let people congregate when we get 2,000 people at a concert," Scally said.
The reasons to replace Hoch go beyond needing a new concert hall. Some think building a performing center is one of the crowding in Murbay Hall.
Janet Hamburg, associate professor of dance, said, "Well, of course it will help because it will relieve some of the pressure on Craft-Prayer. No one in the University likes to perform in Hock. Actually, visitors often have a hard time. Once a new performing center is built, that will help everybody."
But, Scaily thinks that the center would solve organizational problems and the problem of getting good performers to come to campus.
"What it will do is give us a decent hall where we could have performances," he said. "Right now, there are some organizations that will not perform at KU because of the fact that there are no dressing rooms, there's no rehearsal space. There are times when a dance company comes in and needs to rehearse on the stage, and we have to relocate a class and that has happened several times this semester."
Scally said a new arts center would be mainly for public performances and to bring professional entertainers to the University.
Scalled say, "You can't hear well in Hoch Auditorium. The music does it sound right, whether it's solo piano or solo琴 or an orchestra of a hundred pieces. It doesn't sound the way it should."
Three alumni to be honored with distinguished citations
By a Kansan reporter
Robert G. Billings, Clarence Kivette and Paul O'Leary will be the recipients of citations for exceptional contributions to humanity, said Marla Gleason, associate director of Library Association issues with University Relations.
The University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Alumni Association next week will award distribution service citations to three KU alumni.
The awards will be presented at an all-University dinner May 14 at 6:30 p.m in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The award, which is the highest honor given by the University and the
Alumni Association, was started in 1941. The recipients are chosen from candidates nominated by alumni and faculty.
Billings, a 1959 graduate, is president of Alvarmar Development in Lawrence. He is an Alumna Association member and is on the board of association board from 1918 to 1938.
Kivett, a 1928 graduate, is an architectural consultant with Howe and Needles-Tammon & Bergenfeld for Nieman Design. He designed Nuememan Hall.
O'Leary, a 1922 graduate, organized the first school of Business and Public Administration at Cornell University from 1945 to 1952.
Student wants Royals to help fight teen pregnancy
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
A Royal by any other name is still a Royal.
At least that's what Michael Brown hopes.
Brown, Topeka graduate student in nursing, has been trying since February to persuade the Kansas City Royals to endorse an innovative ad campaign in the fight against teen-age parenthood.
The Royals team management has declined, so Brown now hopes to enlist some players individually.
Brown said that the traditional strategy in the fight had been to educate only young females about contraception. But females, he said, can bear only 50 percent of the responsibility for a pregnancy.
During 1986, more than 160 Kansas girls age 17 years and younger had a second abortion, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Nineteen in that age group had their third abortion.
"During that same year there was a 16-year-old girl who had her fourth abortion," Brown said.
"I'm mind-boggling. But still, almost all birth control inoculations is foisoned."
And that's where the Royals would have come into the picture.
Brown wanted to use the Royals name and some photographs of well-known players on a poster with the messages, "Becoming a teen father changes your game plan!" && "It pays to wait." Brown hoped the poster
would help drive home to pre-teen and teen-age boys that they bear half of the responsibility if they make their girlfriends pregnant.
A similar poster developed in November carried the endorsements of the Toneka Sizzlers basketball team.
The problem with that is that many people outside of the Topika area haven't heard of the Sizzlers." Brown said. That's why he hoped to get the Royals' endorsement.
But Royals officials declined to give Brown permission to use the Royals name.
Ron Juanso, the Royals' assistant director of public relations, said in a letter to Brown that although "Royals players are free to endorse products and charitable
organizations on their own, we feel that it is in the organization's best interest not to involve the entire team with such projects."
Since Brown received the letter, he has changed his game plan. He will try to get individual players to endorse the poster.
The Kansas State Medical Society and the Kansas branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics have agreed to pay printing costs for 3,000 posters. The posters would be distributed free by Kansas Action for Children.
Brown said be thought the poster would have a positive effect because of the success of the Sizzlers poster.