University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 4, 1990
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Crimson Girls get ready
Squad to compete at NCAA camp
By Monica Mendoza Special to the Kansas
After only two public appearances, the newly chosen Crismon Girl pompon squad is preparing for national competition.
Ashley Taylor, 3, of Lawrence with Baby Jay before a game.
The squad captain, Lori Calcarra, Overland Park senior, said the squad would be working on conditioning, exercising and perfecting a routine, and beginning the first week in August at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"It's at this camp that we win squad recognition and are invited to the national championships," Calcara said. "Last year we finished seventh, and the two years before that we finished second both times."
The new squad will have a pompom clinic for young girls from across the state to raise money for their trip to Dallas. Calcar said.
The twelve members of the 1900-91 Crimson Girls pompon squad were announced April 20.
The squad had only a short time to relax and take in its newly won positions as Crimson Girls before it assumed the responsibilities. The next day, squad members began practicing for the football serimbi game performed for the crowd. Some of the squad members went to the Riverfront Plaza last weekend to help celebrate the grand opening.
Tryouts began April 16, when 199 women came to the first tryout session at Allen Field House. The woman endured a long week of tryouts, cuts and brief interviews, mentorship, senior and Sherri Lewis, Manchester, Mo., senior, directed the sessions each night.
They said that it would be hard to hand down their positions but that they had seen some great talent and they very excited for next year's squad.
"This is the first time we've had so many girls try out for the squad," Nickell said.
As the week went on, the number got smaller. April 19, in front of about 200 spectators, 59 women danced in groups of three to the top-40 hit, "It Takes a Lot." (Amy Winehouse also did a one-minute fight song routine and then finished with a kick
line.
The judges included dance instructors, choreographers, varsity athletes and Ann Pinkerton, who founded the Crimson Girls six years ago.
The women were judged on appearance, the fight song, the dance, kicks and potential.
"We throw out the high and low score, like they do in swimming, just in case someone is biased or sleeping," said Elaine Brady, spirit squad coordinator.
Nickell said that women who did not make the squad the first time out should not be discouraged. She tried out three times before she made it.
"I think there is a lot to be said for those girls who try out in front of all these people," Nickell said. "That's a real accomplishment."
When Pinkerton inquired about starting a Kansas pompon squad six years ago, she said there was some skepticism about whether they would be accepted.
Judges and spectators gathered in Robinson Center on April 20, to watch the 26 finalists on the last day of tryouts. For nearly three hours the women danced, jumped, leaped, twirled and kicked.
"The band director, Bob Foster, said that the name Crimson Girls would never work, but I put Crimson Girls on everything, and it has really worked." Pinkerton said.
Pinkerton, who has been coaching the squad, said that she would not be returning in the fall and would not be replaced. However, she said she was confident that squad members would be ready to guide themselves.
Dakota judge cracks down
Noise, alcohol violations get high fines
FARGO, N.D. — After watching hours of raucus drinking and swearing at a party near his daughter's house, a judge tripled his fines for underage drinkers in the area and sent them streets from the nightclawers."
The Associated Press
One attorney said Judge Thomas Davies 'new policy' smacks of age discrimination," but the judge responded to such talk "absolute nonsense."
something," Davies said. "Maybe if these kids start thinking of the beer they're holding in their hand they're all going to tell you'll think twice about drinking it."
Davies said that by raising the fines for minors in possession of alcohol and for violations of Fargo's loud party ordinance, he hoped to prevent young people from developing serious problems with alcohol when they were older. "I decided somebody's got to do it."
Davies, 51, who has a reputation for being tough on young drinkers, said he watched for two hours Saturday night while high school and college men and women in his daughter's neighborhood.
The revelers were drinking, swearing loudly, running through people's yards and berating neighbors for calling the police. he said.
"When the party was done, I thought, 'This is Fargo, N.D.' Davies said. "I thought I knew my city. I thought I knew the kids."
The judge said he was responding by increasing the fine in his court for possession of alcohol by minors from $100 to $300 and the fine for noise violations from $350 to $450, allowing allowed under city law. North Dakota's legal drinking age is 21.
Attorneys who have appeared before Davies declined to comment on the move, but they described the judge as strict on underage drinking and possession charges.
Dwight Kutzmann, former president of the state Bar Association, said the stricter fines might charge of age discrimination.
"I think the good judge might want to reconsider his position," he said.
But Davies said he did not worry about how others viewed his sentences.
Bright light at night, dark shades in the day may help night workers
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Bleary-eyed workers of the night, take heart. Scientists have found a way to help you get a decent day's sleep.
A simple combination of bright light at night and total darkness during the day can help night-shift workers quickly adapt to their upside-down hours, researchers found.
The approach appears to be the first quick, practical cure for the night-shift blues, the on-the-job sleepiness and daytime insomnia that plagues many of the nation's 7 million night workers.
The principal developer, Charles A. Czeisler of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, said more testing in the city helped employers started installing new lights.
But if the approach matches its early promise, it should re-adjust people's biological needs and they stay awake when their bodies ordinarily want to sleep.
"They certainly have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect of light in humans," said Mary Carsickad of Brown University. "Their evidence is very powerful. There needs to be more trials in the
field to determine the efficacy in a broader sense, but I think that what they've done really gives us a guidepost to pursuing this research."
The technique works this way.
People moving to the night shift reported to work — in this case, a hospital lab — at midnight and spent the next eight hours sitting at a desk. While they worked, a bank of lights four feet away shined with 16 cool-white 40-watt bulbs.
Then they drove home, pulled down blackout shades in their bedrooms and stayed in total darkness from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
After just two days, the time on their internal clocks shifted dramatically so they felt fresh and awake when they ordinarily would have been asleep.
"It's very important in critical jobs to make sure that people are on alert on the night shift," Creslier said. "We collected data on 4,000 shift workers and found that 56 percent reported nodding off at least once a week. These include people driving front-end leaders, running nuclear power plants, policemen and chemical workers."
group's experimental use of the approach in eight young men in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Scientists read the time on people's internal clocks by checking their temperatures. Ordnarily, people's temperatures hit their lowest ebb in the wye hours, and this is when they most alert if they happen to be awake.
During the studies, a comparison group worked at night under regular lights and slept with ordinary window shades pulled. After a week, the students continued to reach their low point during the early morning.
Czeisler described the results of his
In contrast, those who got the light-dark treatment noticed an immediate improvement in their alertness and performance.
"Our subjects said it was startling how much better they felt at night," Czeisler said. "It was no longer an ordeal to stay up all night."
Those getting the treatment were able to sleep two hours longer a day than the comparison group. Tests also showed dramatic shifts in the times that their bodies made hormones and produced urine.
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