Wednesday, April 18, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
'Extraordinist' dazzles audience
By Sarah Smarsh
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Kansan staff writer
Nick Delgadillo, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, tries to out smart extraordinaria Craig Nickel, Karges correctly read the serial number of Delgadillo's five dollar bill while his eyes were taped and blindfolded shut at a performance last night at the Kansas Union. Photo by Melissa Kraft/KANSAN
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Audience members watched with incredulous expressions as the block of wood wobbled and fell atop the table, apparently moved by nothing more than Craie Karges' mental powers.
Karges, an "extraordinist" who has entertained college students for 18 years with illusion, telekinesis and extra-sensory perception, performed lastnight at the Kansas Union. Each act included participation from an audience of 150
Karges selected Laura King, Wichita sophomore, to assist in the mental manipulation of a wooden table. King inspected the table, which was covered with a thin cloth to prohibit trickery. Karges and King then placed their fingertips on the sheet, and the table beneath began to hop into the air.
"At first I thought he was using his knee," King said. But once she realized that Karges was only lightly touching the table with his fingers, King said, she realized something weird was going on.
"I'm still kind of shaking right now," she said after the show.
Karges dazzled the audience by seemingly reading their minds. Audience members wrote their names, addresses and random thoughts on slips of paper passed throughout the rows. They held onto the slips as Karges began jotting on a tablet. Gasps filled the room as he
addressed audience members by name, guessing their written thoughts and even phone numbers, birthdays and parents' names. The audience laughed as Karges revealed that one member had lost a stick of butter, while another was tired of hearing the Goo Dog Dolls.
Karges told the audience, however,
that he could not foretell the future.
"I am not a psychic, but everything I do is based on E.S.P.," he told the crowd. Karges said he believed everyone had E.S.P. powers.
dark green Rolls Royce, valued at $2.10.
During one act, four random audience members created an idea for a car—a
"My name is Craig Karges. It is 6:21 p.m., and I'm in Illinois. Tomorrow I will perform at the University of Kansas, where four audience members will decide on a car that is a dark green Rolls Rocev. $2.10," the slip read.
dark green robe Royle, valued at $2.0.
Another audience member pulled a sealed envelope from Karges pocket,
tore it open and read its contents.
Karges also guessed the serial number on an audience member's $2 bill and apparently used mental powers to write onto a chalk slate a four-digit number calculated by a woman in the audience. He garnered more gaps when he inter-
locked three rings from the hands of women in the audience.
Karges afforded great attention to disproving the theories that his show might be rigged, providing a documented offer of $100,000 to anyone who could prove a set-up within the show. He admitted, however, that some of his show involved illusion and psychology.
Brian Fenton, Shawnue junior, said was interested in and sometimes practiced paranormal activity. Fenton said the genre was appealing because it lay somewhere outside the mundane world.
"You can watch something like this and feel like you were part of something special," Fenton said.
Karges ended the show by pointing out that humans only utilize 10 to 20 percent of their brains, adding that the powers of the human mind extended well beyond any technology upon which society now relies.
Karges has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Larry King Live and CNN Headline News, and has been named the National Association of Campus Activity's Campus Entertainer of the Year.
"The main goal is to entertain, but also to open people's minds," he said after the show.
With his new book, Ignite Your Intuition, Karges attempts to reveal how natural intuitive abilities can be unlocked. Karges' book is available at Kansas Union Bookstores.
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Seniors to unite, raise money for award
By Brooke Hesler
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Kansan staff writer
A clown will prance around the lawn of Stauffer-Flint Hall, and students will be able to partake in free snow cones and Coke from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow as part of a Senior Day sponsored by the Board of Class Officers.
"More than anything, I'll feel like this is a success if some junior asks, 'Hey, when's my Senior Day?'" Rodgers said.
Brady Rodgers, senior class secretary, said the board wanted to build more of a sense of unity within its class.
Rodgers said there also would be a live "Free-for-All" where students could stand up and speak into a microphone about anything they wanted.
The board will be taking donations for the class gift and hopes to raise $3,000. Rodgers said the class needed the money to continue the Campanile Award, an honor started by the Class of 2000 that gives $500 every year to an outstanding senior.
The class plans to receive an additional $2,000, taken from optional campus fees, which would bring the total contribution of the Class of 2001 to $5,000. Coupled with the original $5,000 from the Class of 2000, the amount would be to get the
scholarship endowed.
"If we don't raise that money, then the money of last year's class would be whittled away." Rodgers said.
He said the football team and women's basketball team would be in attendance, and coaches from both teams would be speaking. Also expected at the event is Luke Atkinson, Leawood senior and former student body presidential candidate from the Resume Builders coalition.
"They're not like prepared speeches, though," Rodgers said. "There won't be any note cards."
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In addition, members of the Class of 2001 will be able to put mementos into a time capsule. Rodgers said the
group had collected coalition buttons from Student Senate elections of the past four years and T-shirts from the men's swimming, diving and tennis teams. He said a Napster T-shirt would also be nice to put in the capsule.
"When our class has reunions, this stuff will all come out," he said. "Nothing like this has ever been done before."
Julie Elkinton, Gardner senior, said she was excited about the time capsule and was thinking of adding her own mementos. She said she was glad to see the board getting involved with members of the Senior Class.
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