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Monday, November 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Kathy Wismer/KANSAN
John Noll, a participant in the Special Olympics, anticipates a strike during his bowling game. Noll, who used this device to help him bowl, was one of about 1,200 Special Olympians from eastern Kansas who were in Lawrence this weekend.
Special Olympics helped by Lawrence volunteers
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Everyone was a winner at this weekend's Kansas Special Olympics competition in Lawrence.
More than 1,200 mentally handicapped athletes received medals and ribbons for their participation in the U.S. Tournament for eastern Kansas.
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, athletes from the eastern half of the state took turns bowling at Royal Crest Lanes, 9th and Iowa streets. Meanwhile, in Robinson Center, other groups showed off their teamwork skills in a volleyball tournament.
Doug McCauley, area coordinator for the Olympics, said everyone who participated in any event received either a medal or a ribbon. First, second and third place winners received gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. All others got placement ribbons.
"We think all the athletes deserve recognition," McCaulley said. "It's great. They treasure the ribbons as well as the medals. Lots of them have boxes at home that are filled with those things."
Most of the athletes practice for about a month before the state
"It wouldn't be fair for a high-functioning volleyball team to beat a low-functioning team 15.0," he gain anything, "either team would gain anything."
matches, McCaulley said. The state office for the Olympics puts the athletes in categories according to their skill levels, thereby keeping the activities competitive and fun.
18. 45 Margie Young, volunteer coordinator, said she was pleased with the community support for the event. helped more than 380 volunteers out with the bowling alone.
"It's wonderful," she said. "The number of volunteers have been increasing every year."
McCauley said about 75 percent of the volunteers are junior high, high school and college students.
"The volunteers have almost as much fun as the athletes," he said. "They pay start off thinking they can't handle working with the mentally retarded, but it becomes infections. It gets in your blood."
Students re-create battle in Hoch
KU society remembers Middle Ages
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
For six hours Saturday afternoon. Hoch Auditorium's stage was transformed into a medieval battlefield.
Men and women in armor fought each other to the death with axes, swords and laces.
However, it wasn't quite the Knights of the Round Table. The fighters were the KU Students for Creative Anachronism; the weapons were made of bamboo; and everyone walked away after dying.
David Putz, Bettendorf, Iowa, graduate student, who is known in SCA as Lord Steffen, the group was educational.
we're interested in re-creating the medieval ages rather than just reading about them," he said. "Most everything they ever did, we do."
Putz said that the group, which has been in Lawrence for about 10 years, met almost every weekend to actively study the Middle Ages.
in addition to fighting, about 50 members also danced, made beads, and displayed pottery, calligraphy and other artwork.
However, Putz said, the group doesn't try to get too close to the reality of the Middle Ages.
"We try to stay away from the not-so-good things," he said.
re said that members didn't want to do without such modern luxuries as running water. If fact, some members were drinking out of goblets, but they were only washing down their delivered pizza.
rather than just reading about
creating the medieval ages
'We're interested in re-
'W
them.'
David Putz Bettendorf, Iowa, graduate student
Another feature of the Middle Ages that the group doesn't want to emulate is the violence. The groups' weapons are made out of rattan, a solid bamboo. Also, the members wear homemade armor to absorb the fire.
That kind of safety-consciousness has made the fighting more sport than violence.
Putz said that a few years zgo, an insurance company evaluated the group. "We rated somewhere around ping-pong as far as severity of inju-
Still, the idea of the fight is to kill, but that is based on an honor system, said Carol Putz, David's wife.
"If you get hit in the arm, you put your arm behind your back and fight without it," she said. "If you get hit in the legs, you fight on your knees."
one said that a solid shot to the head or the body was a killing blow but that each person was on his honor to admit that he was dead.
Society for Creative Anachronism members Greg Anderson, Boulder, Colo. resident, left and Richard Jones, Lawrence resident, joust at Hoch Auditorium Saturday afternoon. Both are KU graduates.
Trick question: Has Bush been elected president?
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Suppose, just suppose, that after his election as president two weeks ago, President-elect George Bush dies before the Electoral College meets in December. Who would become president?
Or suppose that the Electoral College has met, but Bush dies, resigns or is disqualified before Congress counts the electoral votes on Jan. 6. Or, after the votes are counted, some dire fate befalls the president-elect before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
elected on Nov. 8, not even Bush. No matter how the ballot was phrased, votes were cast for the electors who will choose the president and the vice president when they meet in their individual states on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. This year, that's Dec. 19.
Who would become president? Vice President-elect Dan Quayle? Don't be too sure.
"Until the electors meet, there is no president-elect," says Thomas H. Neale, an analyst in American government for the non-partisan Congressional Research Service.
Under Democratic and Republican party rules, if the presidential or vice presidential candidate dies or resigns between the nominating conventions and the electors' meetings, the national committees fill the vacancy.
It is not clear what would happen if the winning candidate dies, resigns or is disqualified between the time electoral votes are cast on Dec. 19 and the votes are counted in Congress on Jan. 6.
The first question is a trick. No person was
"There is a school of thought that there really is still no president-elect or vice president-elect until the votes are counted in Congress," says Neale. "It is a report for Congress on presidential elections."
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