University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 12, 1988
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Senate seeking opinions on its attendance policy
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
A Student Senate task force working to revise the Senate's attendance policy is seeking help from the student body.
Roger Templin, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman and a member of the task force, said he and several senators had studied the policy. Now he hopes to hear student opinion at the Town Meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium.
"I want to gather as much input as I can from anyone affected by the policy: student athletes, people with jobs, non-traditional students," he said. "I want to talk with a wide variety of people with other commitments, senators or not."
Templin said the meeting would not be limited to the attendance policy.
The attendance policy came under fire last semester after Kevin Pritchard, KU basketball player and former Nunemaker senator, was removed from Senate because of excessive absences.
According to Senate regulations, a senator who has acquired two unexcused absences or four absences of any
kind during the session is automatically suspended. A suspended senator has a week to appeal to avoid dismissal. A senator who successfully appeals a suspension will be automatically dismissed if he is absent twice more for any reason.
Templin said 11 senators had been affected by the policy this term, including Pritchard. Six of the senators resigned and five others were removed after they didn't appeal their suspensions.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, said that number was significantly lower than in past years.
Senate elections were shifted from November to April in 1987, which probably accounts for the change in attrition rates. Quincy said.
Templin said possible changes to be discussed included revising the suspension process and counting committee meeting absences toward dismissal.
The task force is considering counting a senator's absence from a committee meeting as one-half of an absence from a Senate meeting. Committee absences presently are not counted toward dismissal.
He said he hoped the task force would make its recommendations for the policy to the Senate by March 1.
Troupe quietly engages crowd
By Regan Brown
Kansan staff writer
For two hours last night, the people watching a performance by Mummenschanz barely heard a sound or saw a human face on the stage of Hoch Auditorium.
The three members of Mummenschanz, a Swiss mime troupe, performed a succession of short sketches that merged mime, puppetry, dance and acrobatics.
The performance, the troupe's first appearance in Kansas, was part of the University Arts Festival and was sponsored by the KU Concert Series.
While wearing the giant hand costumes, members of the troupe functioned as stagehands by opening stage curtains and manipulating props. A member of the audience in the front row had his jacket
Costumes worn by the troupe included enormous inflated silver envelopes, suitcases in place of shoes, large shirts, and six-foot replicas of hands.
stolen, then returned, by one of the performers in a hand costume.
The audience included many children and was attentive to the performance, which took place in silence except for occasional rustles from the troupe's inflated costumes.
Sarah Remke, 11, of Lawrence, said she couldn't tell where the performers were inside their costumes.
"It looked like those giant things were alive," she said.
Kevin Eberman, Overland Park sophomore, said he enjoyed seeing Mummenschanz perform because they were so absurd.
"It's great," he said. "It's just a bunch of people wearing odd shapes and balloons."
Eberman said he attended last night's performance because he had enjoyed seeing them on the "Tonight Show."
The three members of the troupe, Eric Beatty, Tina Krona and Michael Rock, comprise the
present touring version of the group, which was formed in Switzerland in 1972 by Andres Bossard, Floriana Frassetto, and Bernie Schurch.
Sketches featured disembodied wire outlines of human figures floating across the stage and a giant gray balloon that filled the Hoch stage, engulfed a performer costumed as a suitcase, then swayed outward toward the audience.
In another segment, two performers wearing masks that resembled electrical plugs and sockets enacted a courtship ritual that resulted in the stage lights' surging off and on.
The troupe's name comes from "Mummen," a game of dice, and "Schanz," which means luck. Mummenschanz was originally the name of the mask worn by medieval Swiss mercenaries to conceal their faces while gambling.
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