University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 24, 1988
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Rainmakers change style, keep fans
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
While thousands of fans packed Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., to see Michael Jackson, the city's own native sons were playing for a half-filled ballroom in Lawrence.
The Rainmakers, a four-man band from Kansas City, played their brand of guitar-filled, no-tune Kansas City band. The Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
Lead singer and guitarist Bob Walkenhorst, guitarist Steve Philips, bassist Rich Ruth and drummer Pat Tomek are on tour to support their latest album, "Tornado."
Michael Jackson might have started his U.S. tour in Kansas City, but for some people, $23 a ticket was too high a price compared to the $9 admission for the Rainmakers.
"I don't have the money to see Michael Jackson," said Bill Thomas, Davis, Ore., junior. "I don't care to see him either."
Above: lead singer Bob Walkenhorn, left, bassist Rich Ruth and drummer Pat Tomek of the Rainmakers. Right: Tom Zehner, Wilmette, III., junior, creates an image with a magic marker on one of three graffiti walls available to students at the Kansas Union Gallery. The concert and graffiti wall art were part of SUA's 50th anniversary celebration yesterday.
Alan Smith, Wichita freshman, said, "Nine bucks for this band is a hell of a deal."
Brian Osborn, Okmulgee, Okla,
sophomore, said he was a big fan of the Rainmakers.
"It's kind of a good, down home rock 'n' roll." Osborn said. "It's kind of a garage band that's kind of big.
"I love 'em. I love seeing them in concert. I see them whenever they're in the area."
The rest of the crowd also seemed to enjoy the band, screaming when the Rainmakers opened up with "Tornado of Love."
Osborn said he had been a fan of the band when they were known as Steve, Bob and Rich. That band played at Lawrence concerts and parties as late as 1984.
Osborn, however, said he was concerned that the band was becoming too commercial.
"Instead of roughhit people," which Osborn said the band used to be, "they started dressing up and started making a pop image."
The Loose, a band from Lincoln, Neb., opened for the Rainmakers and filled the ballroom with pop metal music. Their performance resonated with the audience, and many left the ballroom to wait in the lobby.
"We just cruised down for the Rainmakers," said Cam Reed, Wichita junior, who was standing in the lobby with some friends while the Loose was playing. "We didn't know they'd have an opening band."
KU student to hit ski slopes after luck at casino tables
By Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
More than 100 KU gamblers hit the casino tables last night on level 4 of the Kansas Union hoping to win the grand prize, a trip to Winter Park. Colo.
Cedric McCay, Kansas City, Mo., senior, had the ticket that provided the winner with a bus trip to Cincinnati for spring break, a trip valued at $335.
"And I don't even know how to ski," he said.
McCay had plans to visit law schools over spring break, but now he'll be hitting the slopes instead.
Students were given $500 in play money to start the night, and each time they won $500, they could buy ticket for the drawing for the trip.
"At one time, I had about five grand, but then I went bankrupt. But, I bought a ticket first," McCay said.
The casino party, part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Student Union Activities, included black-and-white game nights and chuck-a-dice a dice betting game.
Chuck Berg's Jazz Band played favorites such as "Blae Bossa" and "Out of Nowhere" while students played the tables.
Berg, associate professor of theatre and media arts, said his Lawrence based jazz quartet loved a challenge.
"If the group is excited about what they're doing, then it's evident to the audience," he said.
Prizes were auctioned off every half hour for gamblers who couldn't afford to buy a ticket for the drawing.
Tom Stolz, Parkville, Mo., sophomore, and Ron Tucker, Wichita sophomore, pooled their $120 from the $1,220 bid on two SUA Tahirls.
"It's such a bargain," Stolz said.
KU alumnus raises money for fraternity
Dave Niebergall/KANSAN
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity will have Monte Johnson to thank for the new $2 million roof over their heads in the fall of 1989.
Johnson, a Phi Delta thea-
nus, is chairman of the fund-raising
drive that has raised $1.65 million of
the $2 million goal needed to build a
new house. Johnson has been raising
money since May, when he resigned
as University of Kansas athletic
director.
Johnson's son, Jeff, Lawrence senior and a member of the fraternity, said that his father had been in debt to the funds for a new house for some time.
Bill Hess, president of the Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta Alumni Corporation, which owns the house, said the new house would be built on the fraternity's present site at 1621 Edgehill Road.
The corporation applied for a demolition permit Friday and will begin the 15-month construction if, according to the permit is granted, he said.
"We're building because the cost to rebuild is not substantially higher than renovating," said Hess.
Phi Delta Theta was one of several fraternities and sororities that received orders to make renovations under the fire department's inspection program. Greek houses at KU have been under scrutiny since a fire last year at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, 1645 Tennessee.
Hess said that the required renovations were this year's addition to a list of repairs that has grown more expensive each year. The building is 64 years old.
Tom Reitz, the fraternity's house manager, said that the annual repairs were like putting a bandage on the problem.
The new house will retain the old building's English style and three levels but will be slightly larger, according to Stan Staats, the architect and a Phi Delta Theta alumnus.
The house was built for 75 men but
she there. The new house will
accept the new man.
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