University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 26, 1988
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Crowd excited, charity aided during grunt 'n' groan show
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The midgets stole the show
When 93-pound Little Coco hopped into the wrestling ring last night, the Kansas University's Ballroom erupted into frantic chants and wild applause.
Even though Bulldog Bob Brown and the match billed as U.S.A. v. Cuba were at the top of the bill, Little Coco quickly became the crowd's favorite at last night's professional wrestling matches.
When Little Coco pinned the crowd gorilla Poria Cruz, the crowd went crazy. As they screamed, he wiped away. Then the ring waving his index finger,
About 350 people turned out for five matches of a Star Wrestling last night. Theta Chi fraternity, Gibson's, Dillons and Junkyard's Jym sponsored the event, which raised about $300 for the Douglas County Council on Aging.
Fan opinion was split as to whether the matches were authentic or fake.
Joe White, Boston senior, said that although the midgets' match looked fake, the crowd loved it the most.
"It gives everyone in here someone to stand up and cheer for." White said, when you get the phone there, you can tell it's set up a lot more.
But Dari Parizadeh, Tehran,
Iran, senior, said that he liked
the midget matches best because they
seemed authentic.
"I thought they were the most realistic ones," Parizadeh said. "They're light and fly around more."
After his first time at a wrestling match, Joe Heck, Omaha freshman, said he enjoyed the crowd the most.
"Being here live, it's more fun," Heck said. "Everybody seems to
get into it, even people you wouldn't think."
Gentleman Ken Timbs, is on the recieving end of a kick in the jaw from Vinnie Valentino.
Marla Barber, Springfield, Mo., sophomore, was disappointed that Vinnie "High Flying" Valentino didn't win his match against Gentleman Ken Timbs, but she said she enjoyed herself anyway. She did receive an autographed picture of Valentino.
Bulldog Bob Brown, above, grapples with Dave Peterson, Brown went on to win the match night at the Kansas Union ballroom. The event was sponsored by the fraternity Theta Chi, and the proceeds went to charity. Top: Cowboy Rick Patterson, flips Masa Chono to the mat as a group of spirited spectators cheer him on.
State official seeks to alert those at risk of AIDS virus
Bv ill less
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Education of those with a high risk of contracting AIDS should be the state's first step against the disease, Lt. Gov. Jack Walker told the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee yesterday.
"The most effective tool to reduce the spread of the HIV infection is the education of at-risk individuals as to the appropriate behavior to reduce the risk to themselves and others," Walker said.
HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Walker testified before a packed committee room about the report by Gov. Mike Hayden's Task Force on AIDS. The report was completed in December. About 250 members of the Kansas State Nurses Association listened to the testimony.
Walker, who is a physician and a member of the task force, also said that he recommended contact tracing for those exposed to AIDS, although he said that it might not be as effective as it had been with other sexually-transmitted diseases.
A public health and welfare subcommittee has recommended a bill that would make the intentional transmission of AIDS a Class E felony. Class E felonies are punishable by one to five years in prison.
But Walker said the bill would not lessen the spread of AIDS in the state.
"It isn't going to accomplish any things in terms of halting the disease," he lectured.
The task force recommended education for public and private schools, as well as for state employees and private workplace employees, including day care workers, health providers, adult care home employees and institution workers.
The task force recommended several other steps to deal with AIDS problems in Kansas, including:
- expansion of AIDS testing.
Speaker stresses place in history
By Kathleen Faddis
counseling to ADBs testing counseling and treatment of prisoners and staff at the Kansas Department of Corrections
- an active surveillance program by the Department of Health and Environment on the prevalence of AIDS in the state
Kansan staff writer
The best way to celebrate black history is to continue making a place in history, a New York radio talk show host told a standing room audience last night at the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium.
Robert Law, host of nationally
Wilfred Lee/Special to the Kaman Robert Law
syndicated "Night Talk" on the black-owned station WWRL in Queens, spoke to about 145 people as the headline speaker for the University of Kansas' observance of Black History Month.
"You never know when your turn to make history will occur." Law said. "You've got to be ready for the event you see. You come whether you are ready or not."
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of a bus one day in 1956 in Montgomery, Ala., just because she was black, he said, she didn't know that she would turn the country upside down and start a movement that would change history.
But he said that if Rosa Parks had been on drugs that day, black people would still be in the back of the bus.
Law then asked his audience to consider that maybe black people were not brought to this country to be slaves but were sent here on a special mission to teach the world how to live.
"Your presence in America could
be the most important fact in the history of the world," he said.
Law said that students today must do more than read about history and that they needed an agenda for how great they are going to be.
"What separates ourselves from greatness is we who think we are." *please*
The black community has a tradition of asking of others what they are capable of providing for themselves, Law said.
You cannot be oppressed without
you own willing cooperation," he
said.
Law talked about the Committee for Sanctions in New York, a campaign for economic sanctions against what he called racist institutions.
"You've got to stand against injustice on the same level that you stand up for yourself," he said. "Nothing has ever been accommodated until the oppressed stood up."
Law challenged the audience to take the responsibility to continue the struggle against injustice that was started by students in the 1960s.
Concert to bring Hopi leader
Banyacya visit slated for April
By Kevin Dilmore
About 400 people danced at a benefit concert last night so that one man can speak.
Kansan staff writer
The concert, billed as A Benefit Tribute to Native American Indians, raised more than $1,000 to bring Thomas Banyacya, a spiritual leader and Elder of the Hopi Nation, to the University of Kansas Anril 18-22.
Three area bands, Common Ground, the Lonesome Hounddogs and the Mahoots, played for about 10 minutes. Bottletonie, 737 New Hampshire St.
Craig Kreuer, KU alumnus and the benefit's organizer, said the $4 admission charge would go toward paying for Banyacya's visit and support of the students. "Broken Rainbow" during his visit. The film won the Academy
Banyacya serves as an appointed interpreter for religious leaders of the Hopi Nation. He has been nominated for the 1986 and 1987 Right Livelihood Award, which Krueger said honored people working on practical and exemplary solutions to social problems.
The Right Livelihood Awards are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm the day before the Nobel Prize presentations. Former winners include Robert Muller, a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, and Thor Heyer-dahl, an explorer and the author of "Kon-Tiki."
Krueger said the department of history, the office of minority affairs and the KU Coalition for
Holly Larrison, Little Rock, Ark., sophomore and a singer with the Lonesome Hounddogs, said she was glad to be involved with the benefit.
"There are no other major Native American programs this year," she said.
Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs said she thought a visit from Banyacya was a great opportunity for the University.
"It's a very worthy cause," she said. "It's nice to have a chance to increase the awareness of Native American concerns."
Krueger, who also organized a 1966 benefit concert in Kansas City for the youth of Vietnam Veterans. He gave away $150 in benefit from a friend in California.
"Banyaca is a very simple but very beautiful man," he said, "and I wanted to give people a chance to hear and meet him."
Krueger said of Banyacya, "He is the spiritual equivalent of Mother Teresa."
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