Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Thf Special Olympic , now in it ' s tenth year in Hays, hoited approx- imately 1 ,200 athletes lor this year ' s comptetftion. Over 400 students and area residents volunteered their time to work with the handicap ped participants. Many of the teams had cheerleadinp squads to support their efforts. The cheerleaders themselves, participated in competition for their poise, appearance, spirit and quality of the cheering. SPECIAL OLYMPICS 29

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The Spirit Of The SPECIAL OLYMPICS Karla Weber ' s face lit up when she saw three of her fellow ARC — Central Plains cheerleaders return from the finals of the Special Olympics cheering competition. Pulling on a blue and yellow jacket over her basketball uniform, Weber ran to join her friends and root for her team, the Buffalos, ' We’re not bad , and we ' re not cocky,,. We Ve gonna ride like Kawasaki . VA ROOM ...VA ROOM , . The girl ' s voices echoed throughout the gym- nosium as fans, volunteers and students cheered the Buffalos to an impressive victory The Buffs of Hays were one of over one hundred teams participating in the Special Olympics basket- ball tournament held March 21-23 in Gross Memorial Coliseum The tournament, now in it ' s tenth year in Hays, hosted approximately 1,200 athletes. Over 400 students and area volunteers worked with the handicapped par- ticipants, Gwen Georgeson, Lenora junior, and Teresa Van Diest, Lenora sophomore, were two Fort Hays State students who shared the cheerleading skills they gained in high school with the Buffalos cheerleaders It is really rewarding ’ Georgeson said Teresa and I ore already planning for next year, if they let us coach. Bill Moyer, instructor and director of the Memorial Union Recrea- tion Center, was the co- chairman for the event. He believes getting good volunteers is essential to a successful tournament. Moyer admits he con- ned ' 1 Georgeson and Van Diest into coaching this year. But it ' s not really conning, he said, They don ' t know what it ' s about at first, but once they start helping the kids, after about three minutes they ' re hooked Georgeson and Van Diest have been coaching the cheerleaders since the last weekend in January, They were with the girls while they were cheering for the Buffalos on the sidelines 1 think I was more ner- vous than they were, Georgeson said Several members of the FHS cheersquad served as judges for the competi- tion, They go on poise, appearance, spirit and then I think the quality of the cheer, she said. ' It’s hard to put them in first, second and third by Jill Grant place like that — they ' re so cute and they all try so hard, cheerleader Stephanie Casper, Clay Center senior who helped judge the event, said They teached real good cheers, Weber said, excitedly, pushing her dark brown hair away from her eyes, Weber, who has cheered the past two seasons for the Buffalos, also played basketball in some of the games. The cheerleaders seemed to energize the players, who often stopped to look at their supporters and yell with them. The participants found plenty of entertainment themselves during their three day stay in Hays The Tiger men’s basket- ball team and the women ' s gymnastics team performed for them Thurs- day 28 SPECIAL OLYMPICS

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Many endured the insults of BROTHER JIM Jim Gilles, Evansville, Indiana, was born again on Nov. 7, 1980 at a Van Halen concert. He traveled to Fort Hays State April 1 to en- courage sinners to ex- perience righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, The crowd outside the Memorial Union at its largest was around 300 the first day, but as peo- ple came and went , it was estimated that over one thousand people heard Gilles ' message during his two-day stint On the second day larger groups listened to the evangelist, A crowd of around 500 was gathered outside of the union for most of the day. Members of the crowd speculated that there were two reasons for the increase in numbers. The first was word of mouth. The second was a front page article in the University Leader that piqued readers ' interest in the man. Many people were upset by Gilles’ Brother Jim cluthec his bible as he preaches to students. preaching on Monday and turned out to see for themselves if what they had heard was true. One spectator com- mented that the only FHS activities that draw more students are rock con- certs, Gilles would not like that association. The evangelist ruffled more than a few feathers with his tirades against sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He started off the day Monday at about 1 1 a,m calling FHS a three dimensional cesspool of lust 1 1 A crowd gathered around the south door of the union to hear Gilles’ condemnation of the heathens at the university. I come to Fort Hays State University to preach the word of God to you ■ by Denise Riedel heathens, 11 Gilles said, I was once o lusty, perverted rock and roll freak but [ forsake my sin- ful, selfish ways in the middle of Running With the Devil at a Van Halen concert 1 He warned women to watch out for men, especially the fraternity boys and their drunken, fraternity, keg parties Gilles preached that all women who fornicate — which he defined as any premarital sex — whether they give it away or sell it, are whores and all men are whoremongers. He pointed to some women in the crowd and said, Watch out, he may have Herpes Simplex II, The crowd laughed at the melodramatic antics he used to accompany his remarks. He would crouch down low, point to the ground and slowly enun- ciate words like mari- juana, hell, fire and herpes. I used to be a horny whoremonger, Gilles said, but now I am a born-again virgin. He then announced to the crowd that they were attending Christianity 101 class. The text was the 30 BROTHER JIM