University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 30, 1989
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Rick Tamblyn and Paul Friedman await their cues as Groucho and Chico Marx. The two took part in a production of the 1932 Marx Brothers series, "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel."
KANU broadcast says imagine that
Members of KANU's Imagination Workshop perform a live broadcast of Rebecca Reynolds' play, "Graveyard Cleaning-Off Day." About 175 people attended the workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center. Marilyn Sayler and Joann Chaffee, above, read their lines cn stage.
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
In a live broadcast from the Lawrence Arts Center, KANU's Imagination Workshop took the students to certain radio and studio audiences.
The days of live radio show were not obsolete Saturday for the listeners of the University of Kansas' KANU radio station.
"The best seat in the house is right between your ears." was the evening's motto as the station's radio theater troupe turned everyday occurrences into hilarious situations.
But one liners stole the show.
With scripts in hand, the cast performed a number of skits, including two plays.
But once the release roared when it was announced that "If you have a hard time locating your pulse, lifting heavy machinery and have a gray-ashen complexion, you may be dead."
Ronald Reagan and Dan Quayle were the targets of two skits.
in the form of a public service announcement, it was broadcast from the Ronald Reagan Institute to remind people about things the old fashioned way."
Imagination Workshop also took the opportunity to poke fun at Vice President Dan Quayle.
A conversation he had Saturday night with the White House operator went something like this:
"Hi, this is Dan Quayle calling the president . . ." he said. "That's Q-U-A-Y-L-E."
After identification, Quayle was sent through to the president.
"Hi Mr. Presiden, this is him,
Dan Quayle ... he said,
"Yes, that's right, Marilyn's hus-
band."
Asking what he was going to be doing as vice president, Quayle told President George Bush that he was good with foreign affairs.
Geography,however,is another matter.
"I could do some things over-seas," Quayle said, "like in London, Paris, or Tokyo, China."
The feature performance was an episode of "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel," a Groucho and Chico series. The long book series that prepped in 1932
Paul Friedman, associate professor of communication studies, portrayed Chico Marx in the role of Ravelli. Flywheel he inssis assistance.
Rick Tamblyn, director production at KCFX in Overland Park, Kan., played the part of Groucho Marx, who had portrayed Waldorf T Flywheel, the malpracticing attorney in the original series.
"Graveyard Cleaning Off Day," written by Rebecca Reynolds, was the other play. Adapted for radio, Saturday marked its first performance on radio.
Union Express: he wishes new KUID was left without it
by Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Union's new Union Express food program advertises that "Membership Has Its Privilege."
But, as one student discovered, it also has its hassles.
Mike Hill, St. Louis senior, on Jan 20 decided he wanted to take advantage of the Union's pre-payment food services program and went to get a new KUID with a magnetic strip on the back.
The magnetic strip is used to record the amount of credit a student has in the pre-payment program. Style KUID's do not have the strip.
Because bus passes are attached to the KUID's, that meant Hill had to get a new bus pass, too. That's when his problems started.
"You have to cut your bus pass off of your old KUID and take it and a letter from student records to Scott Russell at KU on Wheels," Hill said. Russell is transportation coordinator for KU on Hill.
From KU on Wheels, you get another letter and go to the business office at the Burge or Kansas Union, Hill said.
I still said he waited 10 days after getting his new KUID, and still had not gotten the letter from KU on Wheels.
YX,
VWe have to keep really tight control of our bus passes. That's what all the paperwork is about. We have to have a total accounting of all of our bus passes at the end of the semester. It does leave a big paper trail.'
— Scott Russell
Transportation coordinator,
KU on Wheels
"I waited in his (Russell's) office for an hour and I called him twice," Hill said.
Russell confirmed Hill's account of the process.
"We have to keep really tight control of our bus passes. That's what all the paperwork is about." Russell said. "We have to have a total accounting of all of our bus passes at the end of the semester. It does leave a big paper trail."
...is not peased with the system.
"I have to carry around a sheet with my old bus pass. I wouldn't recommend the pre-payment food program to anyone with an old KUID. It's a real hassle." Hill said.
HALO president plans leadership conference
Statewide event scheduled for 1990
by Mario Talkington
Kansan staff writer
"We want to get every Hispanic from junior colleges, four-year universities and private colleges across Kansas together at KU to learn how to make a difference." Valdez said. "We want to form a collegiate Hispanic leadership conference. Education is the key to power and we want Hispanics to become more aware of it."
Eadio Valdez, president of KU's Hispanic American Leadership Organization, has big plans for February 1990.
Valdez, Kansas City, Kan., junior,
said HALO would host a workshop
next month for representatives from
several Hispanic organizations in
Kansas to form a planning council for
the 1990 conference.
The workshop will be Feb. 25 at KU and include speeches from Maria Antonia, a television reporter, and
Ester Wolf, Kansas Secretary of Aging.
Valdez said KU's office of minority affairs pledged $500 and the office of student affairs pledged $54 to help pay the costs of the workshop.
"We're saying, 'OK, you're in college, here's how you succeed,'" he said. "The opportunities might not be as great as they are (as they are for other students)."
Shelly Fraga, Winfield freshman and HALO treasurer, said she thought Hispanic groups could gain in strength by forming the collegiate conference.
"A lot of Hispanic organizations are popping up across the state," she said.
Valdez said that since HALO formed at KU in spring 1966, the group had helped form HALO organizations at other schools, including Emporia State University and Dodge City Community College.
New weekly newspaper to report events of Lawrence, KU
Kansan staff writer
by Michele Logan
The Lawrence Observer will offer another choice to Lawrence residents when the newspaper begins weekly publication March 2.
Janet Majure, Lawrence resident and the paper's publisher, said her research indicated that Lawrence residents wanted a new newspaper.
The Lawrence Observer will be the third newspaper available to Lawrence residents, with the University Daily Kansan and the Lawrence Journal-World.
"I've been researching the idea of a newspaper for about 8 months, and found
ouah there was definitely a market for it," said Majure, a former University Daily Kansan reporter who is now a business reporter for the Kansas City Star.
Majure said her research included a telephone survey of Lawrence residents last summer to see if they would be interested in learning about kinds of things they would like to read about.
Directed toward the Lawrence community and the University of Kansas campus, the newspaper will cover government, University subjects and entertainment, she said.
"I think the students will be really interested in the unique entertainment section of
the paper," Majure said.
The paper will have 20 pages an issue and will sell for 35 cents a copy or $18 a year for a subscription, including home delivery. TheObserver.com distributed free on the university campus.
Even though the paper will be free to all students, not everyone seems to be thrilled
"The paper won't have a chance against the Kansan unless it differs considerably in the kinds of information printed," said Mark McMahon, Overland Park sophomore.
Christine Hayes, Overland Park junior,
"Because the Kansan is a University
and student-backed newspaper, it should have priority on campus and be the only one."
Barry Moore, Overland Park junior, said the paper would be a good idea to expose the campus to more news.
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Lawrence Journal World, said that he had no comment about how the Observer would affect the Journal-World's sales.
Mature said that besides herself and one part-time reporter, the paper would be staffed by free-lancers. She also has hired an advertising director.
Finding the right name for the paper was a
"I wanted a name that hadn't been used by any of the papers in Kansas or Missouri," something with a long life that didn't sound too trendy," she said.
Majure, who has worked for the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times for six years, said she would be leaving next week to devote more time to the Observer.
ittle tougher than she had planned, Majure said.
Majure worked for the papers as a copy editor, bureau chief, assistant city editor and legal editor.
Majure graduated from KU in 1976 with a bachelor degree in journalism.
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