University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 22, 1991
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KU students turn into class clowns
Bv Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Green, white, violet and black balloons bent into the shapes of animals are piled up three-deep in the center of the room.
Tena Santauilia explains the art of forming balloon animals to Shelly Calkins, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore. Six KU students participated in a training session last night to learn the art of clowning.
Magic foam animals disappear, then reappear in a velvet bag.
People are singing a song about animals, using their arms to imitate an elephant's trunk or a swan's neck. Claws are in training.
Clowns are in training.
Six people, all KU students, took their first lessons in becoming a clan, pirate or fairy last night from Tena Santaularia, owner of It's Your Party, 1601 W. 23rd St.
Though about 24 people answered her ads, she narrowed the pool, she said
Santaularia said that she had performed as a clown at children's parties for eight years but that demand was great enough for her to advertise for help.
Shelly Calkins, Kansas City, Kan,
sophomore, said one of the reasons
she was inspired to answer the an-
drew a trip to the circus she made two
"I got to meet all the clowns and thought that was really neat," she said. "I got balloons and all their autographs. It was really cool."
Though she has worked with children before, Calkins said she was still a little intimidated by the training at a children's party, for an hour.
"The hard part is thinking up things to do," she said. "With children you have to fulfill all their hopes and expectations. I have to be everything to them, and I'm only Shelly. I have to be a celebrity."
Rachel Crosby, Overland Park freshman, said that because she had been a camp counselor she already had experience with children but that
learning to bend balloons into the shapes of animals would take some work.
"Most of us have good ideas, but we have to learn the kind of stuff you don't already know," she said while twisting a long, green balloon.
lor, said the secret to keeping children harrow was to stay a little lazy.
Senate coalitions field 13 graduate candidates
Kansan staff writer
"They like a little goodness; they like you to play around," he said. "They like it when you are serious, but they love it when you can do something hysterical."
Bv Michael Christie
The Student Senate elections April 10 and 11 promise to be somewhat historic, as not every graduate student will vote for Senate will win automatically.
Thirteen candidates will battle for the 12 graduate seats April 10 and 11.
Last year, only nine candidates ran for 12 seats, assuming a victory. Currently, only 10 graduate senators sit in Senate, leaving two spaces vacant.
The Facts coalition has six graduate candidates, along with a full slate of 52 undergraduate candidates. Offer offers seven graduate candidates and a full undergraduate ticket.
"Another aspect of the campaign is the people behind the issues," he said.
Darren Fulcher and Ai Lowen, Impact executive candidates, picked the impact ticket so that it included a group of student leaders, Fulcher said.
The Impact platform calls for a minority recruitment and retention program that would involve mostly students.
The program calls for minority students on campus to recruit and be mentors to new minority students.
"We believe you can't preach
diversity unless you practice it." Pulcher said at the Impact kickoff
Jason McIntosh and Giles Smith head the Facts coalition. Their platform calls for increased access to formation at the University of Kansas.
Brett Siwak, St. Louis senior, said he was having better luck.
The Facts plan includes a note-taking service for students in large lecture classes.
Other universities, such as Stanford University, have similar programs. McIntosh said.
"I'm getting good at it," he said while crafting a balloon fish. "But a fish is pretty easy. I can turn out those fish."
Better access to information also should include more information regarding closed classes during enrolment, he said.
Both coalitions touch on similar issues with the rest of their platforms, such as the campus environment, safety, graduate issues and state issues regarding the University.
McIntosh said that the Senate needed to be more careful with the money it allocated because enrollment increases like the ones in the early 1980s probably would not hap- ne. But the Senate said the fund cannot be counted on to grow.
Siwak, also a former camp counse-
"Those days are over," McIntosh said.
On campus
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will sponsor a spring dance at 9atight at the Party Room in the Burge Union.
Geography Colloquium will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at 1712 Hall W.
The Arkansas Bear production will be presented at 7 tonight and at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Schoolhouse School, 530 W.Slow Road, Sawyer.
KU Wellness Center will sponsor "An Introduction to Lifting Weights" workshop at 4 p.m. today at the Weight Room in Robinson Center.
- Jayhawk Audubon Society will conduct a field trip at 8 a.m. Saturday to either Clinton Lake or Lone Star Lake. Anyone interested should meet leader Phil Wedge at the Sunnyside parking lot on the KU campus
- Voice will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
KU Gamers and Role-players will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday at the
Applications for KU's Japan Summer Institute in Lawrence's sisterity, Hiratsuka, Japan, and for KU Study Abroad programs, summer and academic year or semester, are available at 203 Laincott.
■ The Lawrence Region Men's and Women's Widowed Group will go to Crown Center for the play "Death Trap" and a private buffet at the Blue Ribbon Cafe. The bus will leave Worth, Georgia, Sunday from Dillons. 900 W. John 81
Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
■ The Kiok literary and art magazine is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, photographs and drawings. Submit them to room 400 in the Kansas Union or call 864-5223 for more information.
KU Art and Culture in New York program is accepting applications through March. The applications are from Gary Sharp at 3039 Wescote
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Corrections
graph in yesterday's Kansan was misidentified. The subject on the left was Marc Garlett.
- Because of a photographer's error, a subject in a Page 1 photo.
■ Because of a reporter's error, a Page 3 story in yesterday's Kansan included incorrect information. The department of art and design's July program in France has not been canceled.
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