MONDAY,FEBRUARY 19,1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.99
ADVERTISING 864-4358
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Women sew up conference title
The Kansas women's basketball team clinched a tie for the final Big Eight Championship yesterday. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Rrian Hott / KANSAN
Bracing for war
KU students from Taiwan and China are nervous about mounting tensions between the countries. Page 9A
NATION
Sen. Gramm endorses Dole
In an attempt to block Pat Buchanan, Gramm and supporters back Dole's campaign. Page 10A
Third explosion hits London
WORLD
Eight were injured in a double-decker bus explosion, and Scotland Yard suspects the Irish Republican Army of the incident. Page 11A
WEATHER
WARM
High 65° Low 42°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 10A
Features ... 12A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
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Revue ready for its curtain calls
Rock Chalk thespians to hit stage Thursday
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
The 1996 Rock Chalk Revue rehearsals kicked into overdrive during the weekend.
Crews began moving sets on Friday, and on Saturday and Sunday, rehearsals ran from noon to 10 p.m.
Cast and crew made home-stretch preparations for the show, which runs Feb. 22, 23 and 24 at the Lied Center.
Behind Closed Doors
The-1996 Rock Chalk Revue.
When? Feb.
22, 23, and 24.
Where? The Lied Center.
Pre-show events begin at 7 p.m. and the start starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets available at the SUA ticket office and local Dillons stores.
ABOVE: Members of Rock Chalk Revue rehearse on Saturday at the Lied Center. Rock Chalk Revue 1996, Behind Closed Doors, will open Thursday, Feb. 22 and run through Saturday, Feb. 24. RIGHT: Actors take a break during rehearsals on Saturday at the Lied Center. Rehearsals ran from no to 10 p.m.
Field said each group developed its own plot, scripts, music and sets for what is essentially a 17-minute musical.
the revue. "With 2,000 seats, it is overwhelming and intimidating at first, but everybody adjusted pretty quickly."
"Now that we are in here, using all the lights and sound, I think we feel more confident," said Sara Necessary, Lenexa junior and Gamma Phi Beta sorority member.
Necessary plays the role of the devil and, of course. will be
wearing a blue dress to which a song refers.
Amanda Landes, Los Angeles junior, said she was excited because Gamma Phi Beta hadn't been in Rock Chalk for awhile.
"It is really a big deal for us, and it's fair to say we've put in an extremely large amount of work," she said.
The show will feature five main acts with small groups and soloists taking the stage between the musicals.
Last night marked the beginning of
rehearsals with the live band that will accompany the acts.
The revue is titled Behind Closed Doors. Pre-show events begin at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the SUA ticket office in the Kansas Union and at local Dillons stores.
The living groups performing in the revue are Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Nu, Kappa KappaGamma and Phi Delta Theta, Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi, and Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Chi.
"The shows are really diverse," said Julie Hartman, Grayscale, ill., senior. "They are doing a disco and country set, a skiing set and one in a kitchen cabinet."
Hartman was critiquing the rehearsals, taking notes and giving suggestions for each group. She also has directed in the past and been on the staff of Rock Chalk for three years.
"This is the best overall show I've ever seen, and I've been watching Rock Chalk since I was in high school here," Hartman said.
Exhibits give visual context to Native-American history
By Susanna Löfj
Kansan staff writer
Learning history does not have to mean reading books to memorize dates and names. It can also mean looking at arrow points and other artifacts to learn about life in the past.
The exhibit Treasured Collections: Bennett & Benedictine, which opened at the Museum of Anthropology yesterday, provides KU students with a chance to learn about local Native-American history.
"There's a lot of good information in it," said Mark Bussow, assistant preparator. "Not many exhibits have this much information. It's like a textbook exhibit."
Bussow, LaCrosse, Wis., junior, was among the students who attended the opening reception, which attracted about 100 people.
The exhibit includes historic arrow points, pottery, weavings and bead work.
The Bennett collection was donated by Eva Bennett, Toneka resident.
The Benedictine collection, The Father Felix Nolte Collection, was donated by St. Benedictine College in Atchison.
The Bennett collection will be displayed for one month, and the Benedictine collection will be displayed until July 28.
Bennett said she donated her collection because Jessie and Ralph Stanion, who collected the items while they worked as teachers in Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1920s, wanted them to be available for research.
Both collections were donated in 1994. Father Eugene W. Dehnerd from St. Benedictine College said that the college had donated the collection because it could not be displayed and stored properly in the college's museum.
She said she chose the University of Kansas because her family felt close to the University. Her late husband, Charles R. Bennett, was a contractor for the University. He helped build Allen Field House, Danforth Chapel and other buildings.
Steve Punne / KANSAN
Alfred Johnson, director of the Museum of Anthropology, said the exhibit was a way to thank the donors.
The exhibit also is important because it gives museum visitors a chance to become part of Kansas' diverse history. he said.
"It's a part of getting an education at KU," he said.
Rueben Kent, a Native-American artist and flute player, performs at the opening of the Bennett exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology. The Native-American exhibit is on display until March 17.
"You have the opportunity to not only go to classes and share the library, but also to visit the three museums."
The items on the exhibit will be available for research and educational purposes after the exhibit is finished, Johnson said.
He said they probably would not be displayed together again but that the artifacts will be used for different theme-exhibits.
Students could put their money where their mouths are
Kansan staff writer
Hizer, holdover senator, drafted a bill last week that would amend the Student Senate Rules and Regulations and force the Senate Elections Commission to hold a student referendum on every proposed student fee increase.
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Students could get to vote on every campus fee increase if Ami Hizer has her way.
"If we change the nature of Student Senate, then we can change the nature of student anathy." Hizer said.
Hizer said Senate should move toward becoming a policy-making governmental entity, not merely a group that deals with monetary issues.
She said the primary goal of Senate should be to represent the student body before the University administration and the Board of Regents.
The bill is part of Hizer's overall plan to change the role of Senate.
However, Hizer said she felt paying the extra money was worth it because a referendum would allow students direct participation in campus fee decision-making.
"If all students exercise their voice, then we could make a difference," Hizer said. "That voice should be Student Senate."
Hizer said she expected the bill to face opposition in committees this week because holding a referendum costs Senate about $3,500.
The bill proposed by Hizer calls for all student fee changes for the school year to be put to a student-body vote at one referendum on the first Wednesday and Thursday of March.
Hizer's bill comes after last week's heated debate on the proposed recreation center fee increase.
Though the Senate voted to a hold a referendum on Feb. 27 and 28 on the $77 increase, some members of Senate opposed the referendum.
Other senators argued that student referendums were not always an accurate portrait of how the majority of students feel about an issue.
At a Senate meeting on Tuesday night, Hizer advocated student participation in the recreation center decision.
Scott McDaniel, off-campus senator, said referendums often were misrepresentations.
"A referendum doesn't tell you how the people of the community feel, it tells you how the majority of voters feel," McDaniel said. "The people who tend to vote in an election like that are people that feel very strongly one way or the other. You tend to get political extremes."
McDaniel disagreed with Hizer's initiative.
"The more you restrict what the government can do, the more difficult it becomes for the government to do its job," McDaniel said.
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