Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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This one ' s for you Sharing his tender side, Greg Kihn takes a break from his up-beat tunes to sing a slow song. -Photo by E. Barrera Spring Fever A band member electrifies the audience with the Kihnspriacy . Two concerts are sponsored by CAP ' s annually to provide students a break. -Photo by K. Scribner Kihnspiracy Students use music as an outlet for emo- tional release. Kihn encourages students to participate during hit song Jeopardy . -Photo by E. Barrera Kihn Concert l7

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Beware Rock n ' roll places campus in kind of Jeopardy R ' y the time the Greg Kihn Band invaded Lamkin Gym for the spring concert, ticket buyers had been warned by various posters on campus it was a Kihnspiracy and Northwest was in Jeopardy. Kihnspiracy blasted their sound so loud, the audience ears were in Jeopardy. Granted, ear-splitting music is as much a part of a concert as hand clapping and feet stomp- ing, but the audience did not seem impressed with the in- distinguishable vocals. Opening the set with Talking to Myself, Kihn told the crowd the song was one of his favorites. The audience reacted lukewarm- ly to the music, but Kihn played with wild abandon. After Confrontation Music, he told the crowd, Every song. Three in a row Members of the band join their talents to entertain students at the spring concert. -Photo by E. Barrera one way or the other, is about sex. With that, he launched in- to Work, Work, Work, which he promised, was not about sex. Again the crowd failed to applaud or yell approval. In Stand Up For Your Rights, Kihn and the members of his band jammed and ad-libbed lyrics, before seguing into Hap- py Man, a definite crowd pleaser. Kihn put a lot of energy into his riffs and the number moved right along. After a couple roots rock and roll tunes, the group jumped in- to the long-awaited Jeopardy. The audience finally came to life, singing along with Kihn. Jeopardy blended into a reprise-like I ' m Losing You. Kihn then took the microphone and said, This next song is what happens after I drive off in an MG with the girl in the ' Jeopardy ' video. The band broke into Reunited and then The Breakup Song. This was another popular Kihn tune, one of few to evoke crowd reaction. The band was called back for an encore. Kihn ' s energy never wavered. Shannon Roy enjoyed the group ' s performance. I thought it was pretty good. He had a lot of energy and he made you want to get up and dance, she said. Lesley Blank was less en- thusiastic. I liked the last song, but the other songs were drawn out and played too long. It was monotonous. However, Beth Gamblin had the opposite reaction. I loved it. I thought it was great. Greg Kihn got involved with the audience. -Bonnie Corrice 16 Kihn Concert

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Endangered CAPs ' annual spring fight against suitcasers W. hen you would mention Stroller Daze a lot of people would have no idea what you were tali ing about, said Rae Lynn McClendon, vice- president of Campus Activities Programers (CAPs). What was Stroller Daze? It was a week of entertainment held during spring semester. Stroller Daze was a tradition at Northwest until 1980, when it was known as Almost Anything Goes. Before that, it was known as Joe Toker Days. In 1983, the tradition was revived by John Leek. This spring marked the second time the event had been held since the tradition was revived. Stroller Daze was held April 3-7. It was a tradition to hold Stroller Daze during the first week of April and we ' d really like to stick with that, said Mc- Clendon. A CAP ' S committee put the events together. The committee tried to schedule at least one event every night of the week. ARA sponsored a steak night. Entertainment was provided by Egg on his face Glen Langenfeld waits to participate in the chicken fight. This event has traditionally been a favorite. -Photo by E. Barrera the ventriloquist act Still and Max. IRC sponsored Almost Anything Goes games. I thought it was a lot of fun, said Randy Bonnesen, an Almost Anything Goes partici- pant. But I would have liked to see more teams. There were only four teams and there was room for about 12. Harambee sponsored a dance and CAP ' S sponsored the movies Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tootsie in the Spanish Den. Deli specials were also served during the movies. On the final night, CAP ' s spon- sored a dance with music by the British band Rave. They played a lot of Beatle- type music, said McClendon. How did Stroller Daze rate? We didn ' t get quite as much publicity as we wanted, but other than that I think the ac- tivities went fairly well, said Jim Wyatt, head of student activities and programs. It ' s really hard, we found, to bring back an old tradition. The students don ' t know the background or anything about it. So we had to re-educate them as to what the tradition was all about. Several people knew about the individual events, but few really tied it all together as Stroller Daze, said McClendon. We used T-shirts, all-calls and posters, but I don ' t think anybody really knew it as Stroller Daze. There was interest in the individual events, but not as much for the whole thing. I thought it went pretty well, said Janet Beiswinger, publicity chairman. It (Stroller Daze) was about the same time as Greek Week so that made it hard to find time to plan. But I ' d like to see more organizations get involved with it. Any little thing they could contribute would be good. And I ' d like to get more people in- volved so they know what Stroller Daze is. Will Stroller Daze continue? We don ' t want to let it die. We ' ll definitely continue. We just have to work on a new con- cept toward it, said McClen- don. We would like to make it a University tradition again instead of a CAP ' S tradition. -Stacey Porterfield W M Look out Attempting his best, the blindfolded con- testant passes the football during Almost Anvthing Goes. -Photo by E. Barrera. Footloose at Northwest Students take advantage of the Stroller Daze fun to break away from studying.-Photo by S. Trunkhill. ;Ai t e 18 Stroller Daze