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Thursday, February 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Student starts 'Beak' mania
By Jeff Suggs Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
At basketball games at Allen Field House, a lot of people wear KU colors to show their school spirit. But there's now an alternative to just wearing crimson and blue.
For $5.95, KU fans can buy the Beak, a pair of sunglasses with a detachable plastic beak. Available since Feb. 1, the Beak is the latest in KU novelty items.
Eric Hughes, Shawne sophomore, is the creator of the Beak. Hughes said he had the idea last spring when a friend walked into his room with a pair of sunglasses. He wondered why no one had ever made a pair of KU sunglasses.
"I got a funny idea of having this detachable beak on a pair of sunglasses." Huthes said.
Over the summer, Hughes worked on prototypes of the Beak and showed them off at Hickerson, Powell and Phelps, an advertising agency in Kansas City, Mo. Employees at the ad agency, including his father, Jim Hughes, who is vice president in charge of marketing, loved the idea.
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Eric Hughes
"They said they wouldn't be seen in the Field House without 'em,' Hübber.
Encouraged by the reaction, Hughes and some friends wore the sunglasses at the KU-Louisiana Tech football game in September and at Late Night with Larry Brown in October. Again, he said, reaction to the Beak was good. So he and his father took the concept a step further and worked to get the Beak produced and marketed.
Hughes said he bought the sunglasses from a company in Michigan. BC Studies Inc., in Kansas City, Mo., makes the beaks and has packaged about 300 of the finished product.
The sunglasses come in red, blue and black.
and back.
Bill Muggy, manager of Jayhawk
Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, said many people had been curious about the unusual sunglasses. He said sales of the Beak had been pretty good.
"There's clearly been a lot of interest," Muggy said.
Mark Bogner, Penalosa sophomore and Beak wearer, liked the idea. "I think it should be funny," Bogner says. "It's sort of daring to wear. People look at you strange."
KU basketball coach Larry Brown also said he thought the glasses were a great way to show school spirit.
"A lot of my friends look like this," Brown joked. "It looks like Turg (student assistant coach Mark Turgeon)."
Women politicians speak at forum
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
Marci Francisco remembers being referred to as a little gal when she ran for City Commission in 1979.
Francisco, former mayor of Lawrence, and other forum participants said yesterday that women had a hard time being taken seriously in the city.
Francisco ran for City Commission when she was 29.
About 50 people attended the forum in Alderson Auditorium, which was sponsored by the KU chapter of the National Organization for Women.
"I didn't get taken seriously, except by the voters. One city commissioner called me 'some little gal,'" Francisco said.
Francisco served on the commission from 1979 to 1983.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, said that women politicians addressed issues besides health and education. She said it was a common attitude that women were interested in those issues exclusively. Although those are areas of concern, she said, women are interested in other issues, such as business aspects of government.
Charlton also said that women had to take the initiative with legislation pertaining to women because if they didn't, men would never think of it.
Nancy Santz, a former city commissioner, said, "There is very strong evidence that women's ideas
are ignored for a while until a man comes up with an idea. Then we say, 'well, at least it's getting done,' but we're not getting recognition for it. You just have to keep after it."
Charlton said that men were admired for being aggressive but women were not.
"When a woman is excited or emotional about an issue, the press will report that the woman answered emotionally, but the man emphatically," Charlton said.
Marjorie Arsginger, former mayor of Lawrence, said that women were being taken more seriously now than in the past.
"I think we are accepted more every hour, every week," she said.
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