Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

Text from Pages 1 - 312 of the 1985 volume:

P'A'R N'A' S SUS 5 A STATE UNIVE Fall ii, 1 J 1 1 PARNASSUS I v,-,f - , V Y i Qs-S+ l,ast year. the l'arnassus staff decided to spend all the money it had ayailahle for the book, and then some. 'l'hey were called fiseally irresponsihle for going well oxer budget. 'lihey almost gloated oy er the hills that w ere still rolling in, which did until Uetoher. :Xnd the book was beautiful. , . So hegins a tradition. What sets the students at Wichita State apart is the amount of experience under their helts - the campus population is older than at most unix ersities. We decided to present a side of campus that is not afraid toytry new ideas. and trusts what they'ye learned. yylldl sets this hook apart -from any other student publication is that same renegade spirit. Other than certain design changes. thisiyeafs staff plagiarized heavily from last year's for- mat. hut the work is our own. -,. ' 'lihe nehulous theme of oasis was chosen for this year. lhe opening section looks at the struggle of Old lown. which, historically. helped estahlish the unixersity here. ln return. the unix ersity provided culture. 'lihis campus is still a cultural center for Wichita. We ehose to focus on the ey ents and peo- ple who, while not always well know n. have helped gixe the eity some excitement. God knows, it needs it. - -the staff liditor ...... .....,... l 'eter lngmire i :Xri llireetor ........... Madeline Mel Iullough Assistant Art Director ......... 'lf-X 'l'hompson StafTl'hotographer . . . .... Kenn Murphy Copy Iiditor ......... , . . .Naney Woerner Production Assistants. . . ..... Kirk Garrett .....sXnnSnyder Writers , .. . . .Kate Wintrol ... . .. . . . . .'l'yN1organ .-Xdyiser . . . . . .Jim I Iellman Pl ll YH DS FRI PM Llihlyl' TU RIGHT: Hr. C.l'i. 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'The price went from 35 to 45 cents. Most of these people, they can't really afford it when prices jump like that.' Haines has been with the Eaton for 11 years. He started as a maintenance worker and is now the manager. He said he enjoys his job, that often he will stay late, talking with some of the residents. 'Most people hate to go to work, I love it. I can't wait to get here. Pm tickled to death to have found a job I like and get paid for it.' The lobby is well maintained. Many of the residents spend their days sitting on worn naugahyde couches next to floor ashtrays, looking out the plate glass windows. Some of the residents are permanent, others are temporary, having been sent there by service organizations like the Red Cross, and still others are just passing through. The Eaton has long held a reputation as a hang out for derelicts and society's casualties. Haines said that view is not necessarily true. The residents themselves frown on someone being publicly drunk. 'There is some drinking going on,' Haines said, 'but we won't allow any troublemakersf' Haines has evicted residents. One man was told to leave after he continually got drunk, invited his 'buddies' up to stay the night, and set a mattress on fire, probably by a cigarette. 'But he'd just received his welfare check, so I didn't feel bad about it.' Most of the permanent residents are content to spend their time liv- ing from day to day, establishing a routine, and letting stories build up around them. For example, scraggly Ben Cooper is said to be an ex- editor of the Wichita Eagle, or a college professor, or a capitalist with enormous wealth. He won't talk about himself, in- stead, answering sharply and full of curses should anyone address him, but he constantly mutters. He does not have a drinking problem but may have emotional problems. He walks all over dowtown and is nicknamed Walkie-Taikie by some of the other locals. The Eaton stands in the heart of what is known as Old Town, running along Douglas Ave. from Washington to Topeka streets. The Old Town Association asked the city last summer to designate the area a Local Historical District to help development. Developers, city officials and people with a love for the area feel the hotel could be the crux of Old Town's future. The hotel, first named the Carey Hotel after john Carey, its original owner, opened on New Year's Eve, 1887, right at the end of the city's boom period. It was a first-class establishment, but was near the railroad station where a notorious red-light district thrived. Ben Eaton took over the hotel in 1899, a year before six-foot, 185-pound Carrie Nation smashed the hotel's bar, using a cane, weighted with an iron ring, and stones hidden in her umbrella. In 1909 the hotel was refurbished and in 1910 renamed the Eaton. its glory waned some during the Depression but it was in the late 1950s when the place really started to fade. The railroad men and truckers quit staying there, and the hotel resorted to a haven for elder- lyresidents and people on the burn, usually with a drinking problem. Haines said a lot of colorful characters have resided at the Eaton over the years but it was never full of wines. The stigma is due in part to Naftzger Park - called Wino Park by some -- which is where the street people hang out. The park is direct- ly across the street, and on hot or cold days, the street people will drift over to the Eaton seeking relief. 'lid tell John Naftzger. 'Why don't you put in a goddamn drinking fountain? ' said Gus Gossard who managed the hotel for 28 years before Haines took over. Fd get tired of them coming in the east door and the only way to stop them is to station a guy in a red velvet jacket theref' The people trying to upgrade the area feel that part of the problem with getting people down to Old Town is the image the transients pre- sent. By improving the Eaton it ishoped the transients will no longer stay around. Lynda Tousley, city liason for Old Town, said that as the area develops, some will be forced out by the activity newer businesses bring. But Ron Fischer of the department of Social and Rehabilitation Services doubts whether those peo- ple will move out. He said the street people will relish having a better class of people from whom to panhandle spare change. Gossard doubts whether the Eaton will be refur- bished soon. The owners will wait and see what new business moves in before investing. 'It's sort of the chicken and the egg type of thingf' And that still leaves the question unresolved about what will hap- pen to the residents of the Eaton who are caught between a false image and new urban frontiers. 'They have no place else to go, Haines said. I think we help out those people who are struggling and trying. W! TH' .f fm 1 X S 9-'Zn Q 'Pv' X W tt. E. , I 3 l 5 Q r Ft EM K ! 1' jL54k4 ' '-f,x1..' ,1 .' ,. 4' 1. 1' 2 .' 252 gif' 1 K4 A A. 4? ,k',I:,',i.,'q,g', ??f?'3'ffffTV' i 2' xfxps xi C3 -f'I 'f ? ,x 7 if 1, Y' 'N-. E V.. m QTIEWLEL x CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Construction was completed on what was originally the Carey Hotel in 1887. Photo taken circa 1909 remember steam engines, don't you, Pop? Marion Miller of 97-year-old transient C.E. No, I got here on the bus. 2l2f85 staircase leads to the upper stories oc- by hotel co-owner Phil Kasaebaum, perma- nent residents and other uhortfterm guests. 1122185 The 'Eaton' tiles in front of the door were laid dur- ing the 1909 remodeling. ll27!85 Manager Fred Haines nms the show at the Eaton. 212185 Marion Miller lights himself a Winston. l!28l85 French art nouveau lamps replace the original fix- tures at the bottom ofthe stairs. ll22f85 ,. .. . gfgg ,, ., 1 !,li liaise 5,1 , 14131 2.1 .. 1 ,1,1 1, :,1 'dii il'1 1',?5,i.f4.14.l1Qr7.I . I rr 1 ': wr 1 , UL . 1- I ,1 photos by Madeline McCullough kmruu 'Gig ' in-xnxx 7 ' -.1.l..l 5 ' X tru Photo courtesy of the Wichita Historical Museum Bringing Together The Old Town People The people who live in Old Town run the gamut of humanity. While their backgrounds and social classes are different, the word that kept popping up when they talked about the area was 'familyf' There was a real sense of pride with the variety Old Town had to offer. Some of the residents of Old Town aren't pretentious about where they live. 'This is skid road, this is bum's alley, said Chicago. He was living at the Eaton Hotel until his leg healed. He said he had fallen off a roof in Grand junction, Colo., while trying to retrieve a frisbee for a small boy. He had been on crutches for eight months, had ll casts, and had six months to go. Because he couldn't get any benefits in Col- orado, he ended up in Kansas. Chicago was a biker from the '60s which is when he got hooked on drugs and alcohol. His face is younger than his 43 years except for his eyes, which show the drain of countless alcohol-induced amnesiac nights. Tatooed underneath his left eye are four tears. 'One for each year I spent in the pen that time. He'd been in and out of jail, he said, but was not a habitual offender. His family is well-off, he said, but they don't try to keep in contact with him because of his addictions. B.G. Estill, who has lived at the Eaton Hotel for years, turned 94 on Feb. 17. He does not have a drinking problem, although he was once arrested and fined S12 for betting on horses. Each morning he walks to j.R. Meades for a breakfast of scrambled eggs and then returns to sit in the lobby of the Eaton, looking out the large picture windows. 'I look for accidents, it's abit of excitementf' he said. 'There are a few, jaywalkers and the liken' On most afternoons he walks downtown to the library. On Sundays he often walks the 26 blr H 't Us 'Lund Ui JM Methodist Church. 'I can't hear what the preacher says but I like the singing theref' Estill has held steady work for most of his life and enjoys the freedom of being on his own. He makes for a dapper ap- pearance, sitting in the lobby's wicker chair he has claimed as his own. 'I like it here. They have a sprinkler system. A lot of people burn up in fires, so I looked for thatf' His social security gives him just enough to provide for his needs, including bingo, the only gambling he does anymore. He does not plan on leaving the Eaton. 'I don't have too many years left in me.' Rickey Baker lives in a refurbished apartment building on East Douglas. He came to Wichita because of a relationship which has since gone sour. He ended up in Old Town after he was 'asked to leave' his lover's place. 'When I tell people I live downtown near the Eaton, they think I live in a little hole-in-the-wall, rundown, rat-eaten place. They don't even realize what's here. I can go to Brandon's, or walk the streets on Douglas - I don't hang around down here all that much but I am aware of what's going on. I know some of the winos by face. For me, I don't see the winos Cas a probleml. Having lived in Chicago, l've seen things far worse than anything here. The problem with the area, he said, is the same problem with the entire city -- businesses are afraid to take a chance. He said a friend of his has often said, 'The bars are tardy, tardy, tardyf' He listed Bran- don's as an example of businesses refusing to acknowldge certain facts of life. Half their clientele is gay there and the owner has said, 'If this place goes gay I'll close it down.' I have a friend who's gone in full makeup, the Boy George look, and wasn't hassled. I went semi- leathered and had no problemsf' 'I'll never forget living here because this building is filled with good memories, because of the people I've met. They're more than people, ' 'c ': ' I M lm 'N' I M ' put on airs. I think that has to do with Old Town. Everyone living here is doing so because they're getting a second chance or are being who they want.' Jack Baldwin, who leases the parking lot between Rosen Bros. and Leben Bros. pawn shops, has seen a lot of sad, peculiar things over L, ,4.if'S! T il ? xiii' ' TZ'1K3T5 AMW fm' photos by Madeline McCullough CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The exclusively male clientele of the Smokers' Parlor have their picture taken one afternoon with the wooden Indian. Photo taken circa 1890 Unemployed short order cook, Vietnam veteran, convicted felon and self-professed wino Bill Chambers sits in the doorway of the Blue Lounge, a bar in the Old Town district. He sports a black eye and broken foot, hazards of the trade. l!26f8S You ain't my woman and I ain't yo' man. You can't take my picture. Smitty wanted a five-spot for the privilege of taking his picture. 1129185 Once the Vogue Art Theater, and more recently renovated as the Marple, this art deco building has since fallen prey to the disco beat. Many once-defunct businesses in the area become popular spots after they are renovated. ll25!8S Roc Platt tlirts with Judy Cornet! during happy hour at the Looking Glass. l!25!85 The Fam the years. 'One old boy rented a parking spot from me for ing in advance. He was from out of town to have his fun liked his alcohol. He'd been here three or four days, here and going to clubs. 'One morning his car was gone, didn't see him that day he'd left early. The next morning I saw him sidewalk. I asked him about his car, I was kind of 'Well, I'm out looking for it. I lost it somewheres. I went to a nightf He'd gone to several and forgotten which he'd left it in. Spent the week trying to find it.' Baldwin laughs when he recounts those stories of alcoholics and transients who get rolled or forget their hard night's drunk and walk away barefoot. Six days a week, his lot. Next to his small shack is a grocery Cart full of used plastic spoons and forks, bits of paper, old jars and a tinguisher. hThat's where I put myjunk that I collect. It thing to haul it around in. He considers himself a businessman. It's slow cept for the morning and evening rush. His cigarettes, unfiltered, have melted the blue vinyl in the first two fingers of his gloves he wears when it is cold. He does not trust the 'rummies' because of what he called their sadistic streak. He remembered when a tran sient scattered his parking receipts wasrft lookin 'He hated people, I gues and could give me some them away, scattering them to the caused me alittle trouble g. S in it 8413 . -V.A ,fl photos by Madeline McCullough CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Early morning crowds gathered at Union Station for a chance to see Vlfoodrow Wilson as he passed through town. Wilson did not make it to Wichita due to illness. Photo taken 1919 Eddy Jensen, who has sold newspapers in downtown Wichita for years, gets a little help making his way through the snow from the ldagfe- BFOf07l office. 1!29fS5 Park security patrolman William Bill McGee, a night student at WSU, tries to keep the winos out of Naftzger Park. 1!22!85 Union Station has been purchased by Multimedia Cablevision and the old train ports have become car ports. 1!25!85 Nina Ligon frames her shot through n used camera at the Amvets Value Center. l!Z8f85 Photo courtesy of the Wichita Historical Museum Family Businesses Resist A Slow Decline Stanley Goldstein took over Sam's Sample Shoes in the '50s. He got his degree in geology in from the University of Wichita in 1951, and, after going to Korea, could not find work as a geologist. So he joined the family business of selling top name-brand shoes, 'slightly usedf' inexpensively. 'l just more or less worked into it,' he said. 'My mother was get- ting old - she, my sister and brother-in-law ran the place since my father died. So l came and sent her homef' Goldstein and his wife, ldell, are in many ways typical of the older established merchants whose stores are in the Old Town area. They work nine-hour days, six days a week: depend on a host of customers who have been coming in for yearsg and have been having a rough time financially. The stores are neat but decaying. Most of the inventory is stored in the heads of the merchants. Goldstein's father, Sam, started the business in 1929 and established his reputation on selling name-brand shoes at a discount. Goldstein has continued the tradition of relying on the store's reputa- tion - he does little advertising, instead depending on word of mouth. Goldstein joined the business just as the shopping malls started springing up, pulling all the customers from downtown. While he suffered from not getting many new customers, business remained pretty good with his established customers, from car dealers f'They buy a lot of cowboy boots l to county and ci- ty commissioners. 'We deal mainly in close-outs, factory re- jects and returns. That's quite a bit less ex- pensive than regular shoe stores. l guess it's tradition, 'Go down to Sam's and save some moneyf Everybody wants a bargain. 'Twenty-five years ago all this was full and people walked more - this area was quite boomingf' Like most of the older merchants along East Douglas, the Goldsteins quietly acknowledge that Old Town's development would help their business by bringing in more people and increasing property values. But, despite receiving flyers announcing meetings, they feel outside of the Old Town Association, the organization committed to rebuilding the area. Up the street from Sam's is Zelman's Clothing Store, owned by Herbert and Esther Moses. They were more noncommittal about the prospects for Old Townftand what it would mean to their store. They had been in business together for nearly 40 years, since Herbert Moses came over from Germany to escape Nazi persecu- tion. He married Esther, whose father was the original owner of the store. While the thought of more business was appealing to them, especially after having had a slow year, the thought of change made them wary. The Goldsteins' business hasnit changed much over the years, ex- cept for some expansion and they no longer do shoe repairs. Golds- tein's brother-in-law, Barney Nash, retired six years ago, leaving the Goldsteins to run the business alone. 'I wonder if he didn't know whether things were going to turn, Goldstein said. 'Times were good, but now, l don't know. lt's a lean period and it should be a good period. People are looking to save money and we can sell new shoes for 5535 to 340. There's a lot of tension with business quiet like it is right now, worrying about paying bills, sen- ding my daughter to collegef' At 55, he has 10 more years to go before retiring and closing the business forever. 'When we decide to quit, we'd just sell everything out. There doesrft seem to be anyone interested in the business - family businesses are hard to sell.' But there is interest in the building. One speculator wants to buy the entire block to develop it, Goldstein said. 'Our best years were the '60s. Now, we'll wait and see if they can get some more retail stores in the area. We'll be very happy about that. Hopefully it will get better. Let's hope it doesn't get any worse, let's put it that way. ' . ' me l . ,,,...-1 ' H , k--....,.. A 1 : I K 1 Y Q I O fi I l A, ap-u--qc-vs inf, 42 4 ,c,,. m r-4 ln, BRAND WIS YERN H0015 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: During the 1904 flood, Mrs. J.P, Parrot and com- panion, Mrs. Drake, arrive by boat to visit the Parrot family's interior decorating shop in downtown Wichita. Photo taken 1904 Stanley Goldstein helps a customer with some cowboy boots. 1!28!8S This Cat's Paw clock was a premium given to Sam's Sample Shoe Store in the early '50s for sell- ing a quota of Cat's Paw rubber heels and soles. 1128785 Shoes are stacked in every corner of this 1910 building, home of the Goldsteins' store. 1!28!8S Stanley Goldstein grew up on the 800 block of east Douglas. His father opened the original store, Shustorman's, just two doors east of its pre- sent location. l!29!85 This Singer sewing machine was used to do repairs from 1935 until 1979, when the Golds- teins discontinued their repair service. 1!28!85 photos hy Madeline McCullough Photo courtesy of John Freeman Visions Measured In An Ice Cream Scoop Since reopening its doors in October of 1982, the Old Mill Tasty Shop has been the best example of an Old Town success story. The patrons are a steady combination of the business-suit set and the tattered-jeans. artist-colony crowd. They come for the food and the atmosphere which, perhaps, best represents what Old Town could become. Mary Wright and her husband john are the urban pioneers who own and operate the Old Mill. They bought the place after the previous owner, Otto Woermke, died in 1981. Otto and his wife, Erna, who died a few years earlier, ran the place for 49 years. The Wrights kept the old name and interior styling. One important feature they also kept was fountain service - sodajerks still hand-mix syrup and soda water and concoct fountain desserts - something for which the Old Mill was famous. The Wrights' daughter, Shannon, a freshman at Wichita State University, has been working behind the counter since the place reopened and has learned the skill of making fountain desserts. Mary Wright said one of the people who used to work there when the Woermkes owned the place came in and gave a few hints. 'I have never been able to do it well,' Wright admitted. 'I think that's a lost art.' The business has grown to the point where she is talking of serving evening meals and expanding the size of the dining area. But for the place to be a real success depends on the growth of the area, she said. The interest does seem to be there. Last year during the river festival, over 10,000 people came to Old Town. In September, the Old Town Association held it's first annual Old Town Chili Cookoff, also thought to have been a success. The idea behind these events, Wright said, isito get the public used to coming down, seeing what the area has to offer, thereby changing the perception of the area as blighted. 'Iwo me it's beautiful to look at these old buildings,' she said. She us- ed to come down to shop when she was younger, and, while remembering that the area was not all that attractive - especially during the early 1970s - she wants to bring back some of the home-town feel. Wright hopes to bring in picnic tables to Naftzger Park - called Wino Park by the transients who fre- quent the place, and, dur- ing good weather, turn it into a party spot. 'You just have to break patterns,' Wright said. 'If we have some security over there then you can come down, get your lunch, and go over and not be harassed. The way it is now, you will be harassed. It's the most beautiful park in the city. It's our park, we just got to get over there and start using it.' Most people interested in developing the area say the problem is not with the local bums but with the pubIic's perception of them. The crime is not severe - most of the muggings are among the transients themselves. The established bums, the ones who have been around for years, have indoctrinated themselves into the area and are fixtures. What problems there are come from the nomadic transients - the ones whose behavior patterns aren't known. 'I had one of the drunks explain it to me this way: I-Ie told me to always be careful with them because you don't know what they're go- ing to do because they don't know what they're going to do from one minute to the next. They could just go off and do something real crazy or be real mild, you never know. Developers point out the changes the area has undergone and the success ofthe Old Town events in bringing in people. 'Growth is go- ing to change and improve the area but the rate of that growth is hard to gauge, said Steve Fairchild, executive member of the Old Town Association and a WSU graduate from 1972. 'The area is going through a puberty stage, and building owners are holding onto their lands, anticipating an increase in value. Spring always brings a renewal, too, Wright said, 'new people, new action. Yeah, we do feel like this every spring but each time I think, 'This will be the time it happensf The energy and the faith people like Mary Wright put into the area strongly suggests a renaissance. For the people that may mean a chance, as one resident put it, 'to be who or what you want. A man was sitting at the Old Mill Tasty Shop's long marble counter to order. I'd like a peanut butter and pineapple shake. The waitress, Ann, made a small face, but responded, relatively un- fazed, by asking, 'Would you like an egg in it? Sure,' the man replied, 'why not? He then turned to his companion and said, 'l'll get the barf bag, toof' Jr Old Town stories by Peter Ingmire ali CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Erna and Otto Woermke, the original owners of the Old Mill Tasty Shop, pose outside their cafe. 2124177 Gale Cowan, known as Flash at the restaurant, is just a blur as she waits tables. 1123185 WSU graduate student Kim Schield and her husband, Doug, divide the hot fudge left in Kim's sundae. 1126185 The Old Mill runs low on ice cream cones. 1124185 The owner's daughter, Shannon Wright, attends night classes at WSU, enabling her to keep her job as soda jerk at the Old Mill Tasty Shop. 1124185 Kandy Eaton meets her friends for lunch. 1124185 River Festival 1984 City Turns Out For Vernal Block-Party lf size can be any indication of success, then the 1984 River Festival continued to flourish. Festival organizers try to blend a bit of history with what is current during the 10-day event - held since 1974 - to come up with something in which Wichitans can both participate and just watch and enjoy. Based on sales of festival buttons and rib- bons, an estimated 175,000 people attended some part of the city's inauguration of spring. 'lt seems like every year it gets bigger and bigger, said River Festival organizer Marita Weninger. We just anticipate how many people will comef' were in the 80s and rain fell only on the next-to-last day. Weninger said that after the months of planning she was glad the good Lord helped with the weather. 'Some people refer to the festival as a Rite of Springf Broadfoot said. 'The first festival was held in july and people were sweltering. So the decision was made to have it in May when public schools can take an active part and more people aren't on vacationsf' The festival began with something of the feel of a block party. Friends and small families crowded along Main Steet for the sundowner parade, one of the openers for the festival. Lining the back streets of the parade routes, Shriners, wearing fezzes, skirted along in their minature cars into which they barely fit. Another group of parade entrants were drinking beer to pass the time and stave off the early spring chill. A group of children with the Camp F ire Girls and Boys looked as if they were freezing with only their swim- suits to wear. One girl, who would only say she was seven, wore a set of corrugated cardboard water skis as part of the Camp Elma Broadfoot, director of 1 Wichita Festivals Inc., said size is only part of the measure of a festivals success. The best yardstick is whether we are giv- ing people an opportunity for them to come together, to celebrate what we have in the community - our cultural and recreational resources.' Weather was probably the most influential factor for the week's success. Temperatures i x -'Mike Fire group's motif, but the skis kept falling off her tennis-shoed feet. The sign atop the Kansas State Bank and Trust building showed 66 degrees as the sun was going down. On the back of a black Ran- chero sat two speakers wired to a sound system cranking out about 60 decibels with a trailer hitched to the back loaded with baby boomers and their children. ii-1. ' .1-.H CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: With the Big Arkansas River as a backdrop, Wichita State Universi- ty's Jazz ensemble performs during an evening concert at A. Price Woodard park. 5!17!84 J.T. Burks calls out on his har- monica while playing with Jimmy Fastfingers Dawkins during the Blues Concert.5!20!84 Tyrone Sentry, drummer for Jimmy Dawkins, gets into a faster paced blues number. 5120184 Decals on a guitar case show the in- temational road followed by a blues musician. 5!20!84. Fine Arts junior Amy Kellogg cools out with the blues and a beer. 5!20!84 1 ...Q-mann--... Festival Parades Down Main Street It was part of the KMUW-FM!Wichita Blues Society float, During their stroll down Main Street, the sound system, tuned to KMUW-FM radio for a special musical in- terlude, blared the full sound of gutsy blues. The float was advertising their part of the festival - 'The Last Event' - which was a blues concert along the banks of the Big Arkansas River on the evening of the last day. The next morning was the opening weekend and the River Run. Thousands ran, officially and unofficially, in the two- mile or 10-kilometer run, which wound its way along the banks of the river and the streets of downtown. 'A physical spring cleaning,' one runner called it. This was also the weekend for balloon launches which drew hundreds of early risers each day it was held. Outdoor sports dominated the week's events. There was a tennis tournament, bicycle races as well as barefoot water skiing on the Little Arkansas River, which is maybe four foot deep at high tide. Concerts downtown at Heritage Square, where brown-baggers had lunchtime enter- tainment, were presented by high school musicians throughout the week. But it was the evening open-air performances along the Big Arkansas River which attracted the most attention. One of the larger audience draws was the midweek country music concert. The pro- gram also promised some bluegrass music but the cowboy hats that were flying proudly that night were evidence most people there had CSKW in their hearts and minds. On Thursday evening the fiery hot to icy cool strains of jazz were in the air along the Big Arkansas. The Wichita State University jazz Ensemble played mostly big band ar- rangements for full ensembles. The group was followed by the more esoteric sounds of Hands Down, a percus- sion group from WSU which works in the fu- sion vein. The good fortune with the weather ex- CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The Shriner motorcycle troupes shoot past Century ll. 5!1l!84 Dance hall girls bring back an era that ended with abolition. 5!ll!84 KMUW staff and members of the Wichita Blues Society promote blues and the River Blues concert at the end of the River Festival. 5!1l!84 Shriners and their silver-studded mounts line up at the parade's start. 511 1184 Two brothers watch as the parade rolls by. 5!11!84 T e l:,. lflllm 12 it Xu' QQ Qin min if stefgg - 89.1 fm M4990 19 vafiifpxxfa' 51. .m,p.?4.i1aQ-.rL6fz:a4fQqsS.Q . f . ' X-', iii.: ., NJ'-A-view, Y. 44 '- 3, l Riverfest Ends Un A Blues Note perienced throughout the week ended Satur- day when the bathtub races and block party were scheduled. A veritable torrent broke that afternoon, breaking up the crowd estimated at 35,000 at one point. 'It only rained that one day,' Broadfoot said, 'but that is what people will remember. We really had beautiful weather. But, even so, some people will come up to me next year and say, 'Gee, it's too bad it rained so much last year.' And l'll remind them that it didn't.' The bathtub races continued with only slight delay. Being already in the water, a lit- tle rain didn't seem to matter to the con- testants. But during one particularly heavy deluge, most of the crowd lining the banks of the Big Arkansas headed for shelter, crowding under the Douglas Street bridge, not heeding the race announcer's plea, Don't go yet. I think it's letting up. Perseverance payed off as WSU's Pi Tau Sigma easily took first place in the race, avenging its loss the year before to the Kan- sas Air National Guard. The guard claimed second place. Rain forced the Wichita Symphony's Pops concert inside in Century lI's Exhibition Hall but, as the luck of the festival would have it, the skies cleared in time for the fireworks display just outside along the river's banks. The next day was the opposite of Satur- day's deluge and a perfect close for the festival. KMUW-FM and the Wichita Blues Society co-sponsored 'The Last Event, RiverBlues, a blues concert and the final out- door concert in A. Price Woodard park. The Livewires, and jimmy Dawkins along with j.T. Burkes gave another American style of music. An estimated 5,000 people lined the grassy knoll around the park and the walkway along the river for the first live blues outdoor concert in the festival's history. Most people sought shade because of the late afternoon sun and humidity, portents of the coming summer. Because of the turnout and enthusiasm toward the event, festival organizers said they hoped the blues concert will become a regular event. Blues Society member Roger Wycoff said that such a plan is in the works which they hope will expand the society's prominence 'Really, with some very limited funds, KMUW and the Blues Society pulled off one of the more successful new events of last year, Broadfoot said. They really lucked out with the weatherf' Story by Bob Newman .anne I vgdiwl CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A single hot air balloon silently rises over the launch site. 5!12!84 As the sun rises, nylon balloons are filled with hot air in a clearing in Sims Park. 5!l2!84 Michelle Peaden wears the River Festival button and a promotional paper hat, common at all the festival's events. 5!14!84 From the waterfall bridge in A. Price Woodard park, spectators dodge the only rain to fall during the weeklong festival. 5f14f84 jazz Festival Hits Wichita By Storm It's as if the city becomes one dispersed nightclub. Every year come springtime, the wail of the saxophones complements the wail of the tornado sirens. The Wichita jazz Festival, a three-day event rated one of the top educational festivals in the world, moves through Wichita by storm. The festival is one of the few in the coun- try to be sanctioned by the National Associa- tion of jazz Educators. To be sanctioned, the adjudicators must be NAJE members, judging must follow specific guidelines, the awards must fall within NAJE allowances, as well as other requirements. 'I think the founding fathers of this festival had it in mind as an educational experience for high school and college students,' Tom Fowler, assistant professor of music educa- tion, said. The festival begins at Wichita State University with jazz groups throughout the region performing before a panel of judges. Along with the college big bands and com- bos that are entered in the competitions are other groups that come to be critiqued by the festival judges. Traditionally, WSU's jazz bands and com- bos have not been judged. Fowler said this was because, as the host school which hires the judges and pro- I vides the facilities, it was impor- tant that WSU avoid the ap- pearance of a conflict of interest in the competition. The judging is subjective, said Fowler, just like a gymnastics competition. It's an aspect I'm not particularly thrilled about, per- sonally, he said. 'But the feeling is the competition is really what keeps people coming to the festival. If we didn't have that competition I don't think we'd have as many bands coming in. In 1984, Wichita State Univer- sity's Jazz Arts I, directed by Fowler, led off Sunday's main concert at Century II. In addition, WSU's combo won its competition and played on Sunday's con- cert. While Sunday's concert draws the biggest crowd of people, the heart of the festival is the competition and clinics. It is at this time that the passing of the torch from the established artists to student musicians takes place. The jazz clinics on Saturday is where the patriarchs instill the almost intuitive sense of rhythm and style which goes into making music, as opposed to simply playing the cor- rect notes. The afternoon closes with a concert by the clinicians, a scheduled impromptu jam ses- sion, that offers a taste of what is still to come. The festival then begins its gradual march to encompass the city. In 1984, the Kick-Off Party was held on the other side of town at the Cotillion. Whereas many of the festival goers earlier in the day were college age, the crowd at the Cotillion was middle age, for the most part. Their tastes in music seemed less eclectic - the more straight-ahead, big-band sound characterized by the All Stars. They had liv- ed through the grand experiment which gave jazz its roots and were content to settle for an established style. Traditionally the best and most honest and hottest jazz played during the festival has been on Saturday night,' Fowler said. The Saturday night event basically started out as a more relaxed jam session where the All Star group could stretch out and play what most of us know as honest-to-goodness jazz, where they're not limited to a 40-minute time slot and then quit because there's another group coming on. If it runs late, itis okay. People can relax, drink a little bit. The opening group for the XIII jazz Festival, the Pan America Steel Orchestra, seemed to test the crowd's tolerance of how far the definition of jazz could be pushed. The group played a vast array of styles rang- ing from Irish folk tunes to classical to the more modern, studio style of jazz. This isn't exactly what I came for and I wonder how long they will play,' one woman said. But the band was called back for an en- core after first receiving a cool reception. They chose to play Johann Sebastian Bach's Little Fugue in g minor. A man at a table directly across the aisle from the woman was en- thralled with the group. He kept laughing, tapping his hand on the table and saying how he thought the band was great. It was a hit M a risk. The group was harebf three months old and it was performing before a crowd W' hardened jazz aficionados. H that wasn't enough, members of the Pan America Steel Orchestra were not planning on performing what is infor- malb known as jazz, instead, Wer- ing a mixture dfolh, elassieal and cahfpso musie. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Jazz vocal group Rare Silk receive applause after their afternoon per- formance in Century ll. 4!29f84 The solo trumpet player for the Jazz Commodores is silhouetted against the glowing arches of the Cotillion's stage. 4!28f84 Clark Terry, ajazz festival regular, helps get things started at the kick- off party Saturday night. 4!28!84 Herb Ellis, one of the Jazz All- Stars, plays along with Clark Terry and the Jazz Commodores. 4!28!84 Carol Baldwin, a fine arts major, stretches out during the 14-hour main concert at Century Il. 4!29!84 lt's been the policy to have a variety of attractions so you don't get 10 big bands that all play the same thing. We were playing to have a premiere, said Gary Gibson, the band's leader, and Q' they lik- ed it . . . well, they seemed to. We deyinitebf have been given much warrner receptions since then. The Pan America Steel Orchestra is Gibsons dreamchild. ln a way it was a flash Q' inspira- tion. When I first moved down to Texas, my roommate and I were talking about what a drag it was to be down there. I just got this idea, 'Wouldn 't it be great to fubill this dream and have a band and not play garbage? Most W the performers are percussion majors at Wchita State University and receive one hour credit for being part M the group. But the group is not ojicralbf sanctioned by the univer- sity or offered as a course in the music depart- ment. The group is given space in the bowels of Duerksen Fine Arts Center to store equwment - 24 'drums made from 55-gallon oil barrels - and to practice. Funding for the band, mainbf for instruments l and any recorrhng ventures, comes from Gibsons savings and a loan he took out. i Im still paying of the loan. And we have l received some private support. The group is a prokssional band and prides itsel on playing good music, not being locked into T a stereotypical cahpso or reggae mode. The group i also faces another problem in Wchita. T H you don 't play country-and-western in Wchita, Kansas, nobody likes you, Gibson said. But out here at Wchita State, the percus- sionists are further into the future than music students in any other school in the country. That can be debated, M course. The band is planning an album which it hopes to' release through a national label. Otherwise it will promote the record itsef at its concerts. The big point behind the album is that its go- ing to be a cornpleteb' unexpected new sound because people, when they think ofa steel band, think W Marianne and Yellow Bird. The point is to open people up to new sounds. The music then shifted to ,what the ma- jority ofthe audience had been hoping for and expecting. The Navy Commodores Big Band, along with the jazz All Stars - made up of Butch Miles, jay McShann, Herb Ellis, Milt Hinton and Clark Terry, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Headline attraction for the XIII Wichita Jazz Festival, Mr. Ray Charles sings his monster hit, What'd I Say. 4!29!84 Jeff Lorber plays jazz fusion as the last attraction of the festival. 480184 Stage lights reflect green and red highlights off saxophones downstage. 4!30!84 Saxophonist for Jeff Lorber Fusion solos during their hit, Wizard Island. 4!30!84 Ray Charles draws the audience's applause to his back up vocalists, the Rayettes, and his band during the Ray Charles Show. 4!29!84 Festival To Focus On Acoustic Jazz a regular of the Wichita jazz Festival - played what may be called 'classical' jazz - ballads and tightly arranged big band numbers. The night was also, in a sense, dedicated to the legendary Count Basie, who had died the Thursday before the festival began. After years of trying to schedule it, jazz festival organizers managed to book Basie at the Wichita jazz Festival back in 1979. The Navy Commodores began their pro- gram with a ballad by Basie, dedicated to his memory. Most all of the groups played at least one Basie number, making sure to clearly announce that fact as a way of paying respect. 'The one thing about jazz players that's pretty interestingf Fowler said, 'is when a major artist dies everybody remembers him, tells funny stories about him, eulogizes a lit- tle, but life goes on. That's the way the artist would have wanted it. Basie's band is still playing. I guess it goes back to the old New Orleans days. On Sunday, the XIII jazz Festival moved downtown for the concert at Century II. The program started on time but slowly fell behind schedule. It's become as much of a tradition as the eclecticism of the festival. In 1984, the Sunday concert featured The Navy Commodores, the vocal group Rare Silk, the bluegrass-influenced sounds of David Grisman, the soulful blend of Ray Charles and the Raelettes, the Phil Woods Quintet, and, for the electronic buffs, jeff Lorber Fusion. 'In the past, it's always been the policy to have a wide variety of attrac- tions, Fowler said, 'so you don't get 10 big bands or five groups that all play the same thing. This past year 119842 was quite a departure than we've ever had before,' he said, noting the number of different styles the festival brought it. 'We generally bring in one main attrac- tion,' he said. 'Ray Charles was the main draw last year.' Fowler said there are about four to five thousand regular jazz Festival goers who can be counted on to attend, but in order for the festival to reach its goal of breaking even, they need to bring in another three to four thousand people. A big-name star will help do that, he said. Festival organizers are concerned about how smoothly the program runs and try to avoid delays. During the 1984 jazz Festival, jeff Lorber was scheduled for 10:40 p.m. but, because of delays and the amount of equipment he brought to set up, Lorber did not go on until 1 a.m. 'When you got a group like Weather Report or jeff Lorber who's used to playing as a sole attraction at a concert, that's one thing,' Fowler said. 'When you're part of a festival with maybe 10 other groups, we've got to look at how much setup time that takes, how much extra equipment does that require, do we have the sound capabilities to reinforce the sound the way these people want it to be.' Because of the delays that have gone on in the past, Fowler said it was decided this year that the festival does not have the capabilities for heavy electronic groups. The emphasis will be on more acoustic jazz groups. WSU's involvement .with the educational portion of the festival will continue to ex- pand. The 1984 Homer Osborne award, . given for music education, was presented to WSU's jazz program, the first time any institution has ever received the award. Fowler said the university has established somewhat of a sym- biotic relationship with the festival over the years which has served to promote both WSU and the Wichita jazz Festival. 'I don't know whether we've helped the festival more or the festival has helped us more,' Fowler said. 'It's a mutual kind of thing' Story by Peter Ingmire xv ' f qw V7 .,... ,- -' X :T-1f.3TZQ1 ' -2- Df'!5 ,ix Q Q Ns VE 5 x x F' . 'fm 1 g F .SN i X x N 3 X X Ax 4' 1' J I ,. fix' 5 I F 2 V .Wi i, A My W 5 5- .. - ,fe f if NM N3 g a N K 3 fx s g f M, S 5: k ' 5 My X Q ML 9 N Q X ' I QL 3 9 X x f Q x Y, x x -I' .4 Q xi el' Q 5' 5 I ' 5 ? 3:5 Q. I 0 I w E K x Q Q ,. I ' , E-Wg! s A N g -3 ,, ,:w, :psy ji. 56151 -... 'lu 'h-ri 1 nxt E ix M., PORTRAIT Faith In Abilities Make A Musical Dream Impossible To Beat In one sense, Gary Gibson's approach to music can be compared to Masters and johnson. Well, the penis is really behind the whole philosophy I'm trying to get across in my music, Gibson said. I think the penis plays a large, large role in what I'm trying to say as a musician. Gibson's mind often works tangentially - what he says is not always what he means. When the idea of paralleling sexual terms with musical terms entered his mind near the end of the interview, it was clear he was not serious but felt compelled to follow the line of argument to its resolution. Gibson decided early on that he would be a musician - a continual process, he said. By the time he was in junior high he had plotted out his goal of being a percussionist and saw the need to approach his career choice pragmatically. 'Music is a business as well as an art in these modern days,' Gibson said. 'The ideal is to be a musician in a king's court where the king is going to provide your living as long as you provide him with music. Now it's dog-eat-dog. Even if you have some music that you know will only appeal to a very few people - it can be very elitist music - you want to disseminate it to as many people as possible. And that's where the business side comes,in. There hasn't been a musician in the history of the world that hasn't had to make major compromises. I mean, I don't know every specific individual case in music history but I seriously doubt there are excep- tions to that. He said he has no aspirations beyond recognition and respect from his peers. That's first and foremost in my goals as a musician. But if I can get past that to a more catholic audience, that's great.' Studying and performing at Wichita State University has given him the most freedom to pursue what he wants to be as a musician. He studied briefly at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, but left un- satisfied after one year. Now he is finishing his master's degree at WSU. Between his year at NTSU and WSU, Gibson spent time in Colorado as a street musician. He developed a repertoire and played steel drums for a passing audience. That allowed time to gel ideas for a band, develop as a performer and put some money in the bank - street musicians are not known for paying taxes. 'But if you want to talk compromise, pro- bably the biggest compromise I've ever had to make was being a street musicianf' He grew to know his musical sets by heart and was often bored, playing mechanically, which he didn't like. He also curbed his music to ap- peal to the tastes of his transient audien- ces. He feels it was one of the greatest experiences he's had because it taught him how to be a performer. 'For me, I can't enjoy music unless I know others are enjoying it. Which is one reason why I don't consider making adjustments to make it more comprehensi- ble to an audience a compromise. I like it when there's an audience out there really en- joying the music in some form or another. This brings back the strained concept of music being analogous to sex, so he jokingly suggested that a musical performance is much like a sexual encounter. Now, what I really don't like is when an audience shows up and you start playing a tune and they get up and leave. It's the rudest thing, I think, for that to happen. It's a tease or it's interrup- tis or something. But yeah, the penis is a very important part of music. I mean, I couldn't perform without it. Gibson has had to struggle with trying to curb his confidence, which sometimes comes out as arrogance. Let's put is this way: If anybody could ever file a class-action suit against one person for appearing to be conceited I suppose they would file it against me. But I really don't know why. 'I know I have an ego. And there are a few people either brave or rude enough to point it out to me. But I'm really careful since those people have pointed it out to me five or so years ago.' If something were to happen so he would no longer be able to perform, he would turn to another aspect of music. 'I think I've got it nailed down pretty much so that I can be in music in several different ways. If I was to lose a limb and could no longer play, I could still compose and I could still teach. And those are just as fulfilling to me as playing is, really - although playing is a special kick. A lot depends on the audiencelperformer relationship, with emphasis on the type of relationship. 'Homosexuality would be when you have an audience of musicians. Heterosexuality, of course, would be the usual musicians and listeners. 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They depended on their father to teach them English, often staying up all night translating the textbooks. Madhu said she felt shy and did not talk with anyone in her classes. Uma said, at first, she felt people didn't care how she appeared. 'But then, when people started looking at us strangely, then we would go home and tell our daddy, 'I think we need to get some more clothesf ' Madhu said because she was used to In- dian styles of clothing she did not like wear- ing jeans - it took two years before she didn't mind wearing them. 'When I came here they looked so strange. I didn't like jeans at all. There was no way I could wear them except for my dad. He forced us to try them on. The family moved to Wichita after three months when their father got a job with Cessna. 'When we moved here we said, 'Well, when we go to Wichita we'll talk to everyone in all the classes and that way we'll learn English,' ' Uma said. 'When we took 'English as a Second Languagef our teacher was really nice and she helped us a lot,' Madhu said. She said they worked hard and were told they learned quickly. 'She was the first one we could talk to a lot and that's how we learned most of our English. Throughout their years at Southeast High School, they rarely went out to the major school events like football games. They went to soccer matches - something they did when they were in India - and to tennis games. Their parents were careful to know wheresthey went and how long they would be gone. 'My parents are still very strict and I like them for that, because the kind of person I am right now is because of them,' Uma said. 'For example, in India we have arranged marriages,' Madhu said. 'And parents here can't really do anything if you go out with somebody and find somebody and marry somebody. That's one thing my dad's very strict about. My dad wants us to have arrang- ed marriages so I'm going to because I want them to find somebody for me. She said she trusts her dad to find her a husband. 'Not only that - I can find somebody - but that's our system. It works. Here you probably can't really marry so- meone unless you go out with them. 'If we go and find somebody I'm sure our dad will let us get married,' Uma said. 'He won't like it,' Madhu said. 'Yeah, he won't like it, Uma said. 'He probably won't say anything but he won't like it and I'm sure he'll be real hurt if we do that. Although they have retained some of the customs and memories of India, they have grown accustomed to the American lifestyle. They doubt whether they could live in India now. 'If I go to India now, I don't know how I'd be feeling,' Madhu said. 'I think I have changed a little bit because sometimes my dad says, 'You're Americanizedf if I do something wrong.' 'If we wore jeans and go to the airport Cin Indial, my uncle - he's real strict - will say, 'You went to America and have changed so much,' ' Uma said. One difference they've adapted is an American approach to food. In India, the cow is a sacred animalg meat is rarely eaten except by certain lower classes. 'Here we eat everything, Uma said. 'The first time my dad Qreturnedl, my un- cle asked if everone here eats pork and beef. He didn't want to say yes or no. He goes, 'Well, everyone doesn't have to eat it,' ' Uma said. 'lf they know we eat beef, my uncle would say, 'Well, just go back there. You cannot live in this house, not even for a day, Madhu said. 'We didn't eat beef until a year after we were here,' Uma said, 'One time we went to one of our Indian friend's house and he goes, 'You mean you haven't tried hamburger yet?.' The first thing we tried, my dad made this breakfast sausage and we didn't like that at all. I like it now, but then .... My dad kept saying, 'This is nothing bad, Uma. just eat it. ' They still practice their Hindu faith and still observe their prayers. Every month or so, they said, the Indian community in Wichita may get together for a service. They have also had to get used to housework. In India, they had servants - impoverished people culled from the lower classes - to do the work on their farm and in their house. 'Here we have to do our own dishes and everything. You should see my mom. All she had to do there was sit, Uma said. 'My mom still wants to go back, Madhu said, 'because she wouldn't have to do the clean- ing or cooking' In India, families stay together for life, they said. The elderly remain in the home instead of being put in a nursing home as is done here. It is that tradition which they are most intent on preserving. After graduating, they plan on staying in Wichita with their family and finding work. If their jobs take them to another part of the country, they feel they will be able to go. 'It would be scary, Uma said, 'because I hear about so many things going on, so much crime in the United States. But I think I can probably do it.' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Kenn Murphy Citizens Cluster For American jubilee For the first time an admission was charged to help commemorate the nation's freedom during the ninth annual july Fourth celebra- tion held in Cessna Stadium at Wichita State University. Organizers said it was necessary to limit the crowd size in the stadium atten- ding 'Celebrate '84' in order to keep a festive feeling. Most seemed not to mind paying the dollar - some were even enthusiastic. 'I think it's wonderful because it helps defray the expenses and it makes you feel a part of it, said Leann Cloud. She said her family brought dinner and made an outing of the event. Outside on the hill next to Duerksen Fine Arts Center in the 'free section, the feeling was also festive. About 1,000 people sat on blankets with coolers filled with chicken, salads and beverages - usually beer, which was not allowed inside. Ahmad Mirsafian, from Iran, was with his four-year-old daughter, Sudee, on the hill for her first Fourth of july. She had discovered that part of the fun is sparklers which she got from one of the other families on the hill. Although she did not understand any English - she had been in the United States about three months - she could still ask, when her sparkler burned out, 'Can I have one? 'That's the only English she knows, Mir- safian said. 'I just taught it to her and she doesn't know what it means. I told her to say that to get one to play with. Mirsafian has been in the United States since 1980 studying for a doctorate degree in education at Emporia State University, where he received his master's degree. He hopes to return to Iran to teach and help his country develop. 'Our people want everything new, he said. 'We need the United States' technology, your education, your everything. 'I think the American people are nice but I don't agree with your government,' he said. 'I also don't think Americans know what their country is doing and don't have much knowledge of world affairs.' During a naturalization ceremony, over 200 people from 41 countries became new United States citizens. 'I'm so excited with my citizenship, said Som Chang Kongphent, who has been in the country for five years. He said, however, he would wait to celebrate after his wife retakes the exam. 'She didn't pass the test. The activities that generated the most in- terest were the flashier events. 'My favorite was the jets, said Marcus Williams, age 9. 'Man, that's some noise - it hurt my ears. Antwon Alexander, 6, said he liked the jets, too, but thought they were a little scary. He prefered the comparatively more sedate activities. 'I liked the people parachuters. It would be fun to fall out of a plane 'cause I don't think I'd get hurt.' When he saw the F4-D Phantom jets thunder past, Ahmad Mirsafian smiled. 'We have a lot of those. The Shah bought many F-15s, F-Ss and F-4s. All of the equipment Iran has is American. I saw a lot of it in 1980 when I went to war in our fight against Iraq.' The finale for 'Celebrate '84' was the fireworks display, shown at a cost of 817,500 An estimated 100,000 people - 35,000 inside the stadium and 70,000 out- side - watched the largest fireworks show in Kansas. Alfred Bennett, 9, and a longtime veteran of the july Fourth celebration, said the fireworks were the best part of the show. 'I've been coming here since I was born and I'm going to keep coming back for those, even if I have to ride my bike. Story by Peter Ingmire CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A sunlit flag brought by students to the hill next to Duerksen waves in front of a summer cloud bank. 7!4!84 WSU Channel 13 technicians work to capture the sights and sounds of Celebrate '84 on video. 7!4!84 KAKE cameraman broadcasts the ground display from scaffolding while students flee sparks and smoke. 7!4!84 Collegiate cheerleader Audra Ockerman shows her stuff during the All Schools Cheerleading ex- hibit in Cessna Stadium. 7f4f84 Madeline ofa . wth QQ.-V4 WVU J,4J Day Cf Agricultural Contests. . . Bob Gottshalk, the executive secretary of the Kansas State Fair, described the Fair as an opportunity for peo- ple to exchange ideas and show the results of their labor over the past year. He said paid attendance in l984 was 343,205 people. lt's the showcase of Kansas' agriculture, industry and commerce. 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But the Shockers hadn't played at home since their season opener, which nearly 27,500 people attended. Bolstered by alum- ni in town for Homecoming Week, the team was planning on putting on a respectable performance. On the day of the game, alumni gathered on the Alumni House lawn for Shocktoberfest. Many downed large plastic yellow mugs filled with beer as a part of the traditional pre-game warm-up. But the fighting spirit seemed sheathed in pragmatism. 'Well, I just hope to win, said Scott Glenn, class of 1969. Rod Stewart, class of 1968, said that he thought 'Chismar's game will turn something out, I think. Expressions of reservation regarding the outcome of the game were common that afternoon. The rituals performed throughout the week had been executed with the proper fanfare and enthusiasm so it was hoped the game would at least sustain the mood of collegiality. Some of the events that mark Homecoming Week were the traditional Mud Volleyball and the Frisbee Golf Tournament. Later in the week, the Waterfest was held at the I-Ieskett Center. Teams from Brennan Hall, Alpha Kappa Omega, and other sundry sororities and fraternities competed in sports as yet un- sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee - such as a wet sweatshirt relay and the Balloon Stuff, during which one team member tried to cram as many balloons as possible into another team member's long underwear in three minutes' time. The three-minute time limit seemed too long - the underwear was full of balloons after about 45 seconds, and at that point the object seemed to be no longer a race but how best to ease in one more balloon without it bursting which was not easy judg- ing from the sounds. The long underwear, it was announced, was donated by the athletic department. Another 'sport' was Stuff It. Teams jumped into the water at the sound of the whistle and would stretch a rubber swimm- ing cap under water until it was about three feet across, large enough for another team member to crawl inside. The team would then carry that person in the makeshift womb of water and latex to the center of the pool. The fastest time won. But the event that was a glory to behold was the belly flop contest. The contestants were judged on form, flair and volume. 'The impact of the flop was crucial to the judging, joe Reitmaier, coodinator for Water Fest, said. The more painful it seemed, he said, the better the score. It came down to a battle between two con- testants, jerry Wetzel and Gregg Friesen, who were clearly far superior and, no doubt, more deranged than the rest. They engaged in a struggle for the top score that eventually led them to fling themselves off the three- meter spring board, gracefully arch their back for areodynamic purposes and land belly-first with such a resounding crack - like a pistol fired in the natatorium - that the small crowd recoiled with vicarious pain. 'I'm surprised he didn't break his skin when he landed, one observer said of Wetzel. Wetzel, who received four tens and one 9.5 from the judges, lost to Friesen who scored five tens for a perfect score. On Thursday night, the evening following the full moon, the pledges for the sororities and fraternities as well as other university groups gathered together next to the parking lot by the baseball field for the Nite-Shirt parade. They paraded around campus pull- ing floats to show their spirit for WSU and their contempt for the University of Texas- Arlington. Delta Gamma's float, entitled 'Stalk the Mavericks, had WuShock bursting out of foliage with a rifle aimed at the head of the opponent. Sigma Phi Episilon's float was much less elaborate. The fraternity chanted, 'We tried, we tried! We just couldn't do itl' A makeshift banner with the words 'We Tried' hung over the side of the float which was little more than a platform on wheels and a skeletal . WuShock on top - perhaps the only minimal effort. 'We changed ideas so many times,' said one member who admitted to being embarrassed and didn't want to give his name. 'We couldn't get enough people together at the right time.' The Newman Center pulled up the rear and boasted the only banner in the parade. 'We're be- ing unique and not greek, said jim Lavin, one of the banner car- riers. 'I'm just glad we're not following horses. The Engineering Council also followed the greeks pulling a an in Q A nnrrrrrl' Belly Flop, Trivia Mark Week's Events portable sign lit up by a gasoline- powered electric generator. President Donna Jacobs, senior in mechanical engineering, said the group traditionally was a part of the parade to get some cam- pus exposure. But, she admitted, the crowd watching the parade - a handful of curious night students on their way to class - wasn't very im- pressive. The parade ended at the hill next to Duerksen Fine Arts Center's amphitheater, where the Homecoming rally and bon- fire were held. The marching band was there in force as well as the fraternity system and neighborhood kids. The crowd gave WSU head football coach Ron Chismar a A loud and warm reception when he came up to deliver his short statement, which was interrupted by cheers after almost every sentence. It's nice to be back in middle America where Homecoming really means something,' Chismar said. Acknowledging the Shockers' 0-S record, he went on to say, I wish I had more of a football record to of- fer you. We don't have it. But Chismar promised that 'our kids will do everything they can' in Saturday's game. 'I think it's been so long since we have seen them play, nobody really cares, win or lose,' said Anita Steckline, one of the Homecoming royalty. Besides, most of them are so drunk anywayf' Up on the hill, away from the light of the amphitheater and the chants of fraternities, Demetrius Turner, 15, and his friends wat- X I X4 ched the activities. He said he pretty much understood what was going on and why, and he added that he thought it looked fun. I'll be going here next year or so, I guess, and I'll be up there,' he said. When asked ifj there was anything he would do to make, Homecoming more fun, he suggested,l 'better music, something with some beatl that you can break to. The bonfire was gathering fury by this time, ready to receive the signs and stuffed Texans as an offering to school spirit and the fates that deal the outcome of the game. Anything to help the season, said one sorority member. Threatening skies kept most people home Friday night, which was just as well. The Scheduled Concert in the Sky fireworks display, reputed to be the one of the largest displays put on by Paul Austin, who also choreographs the july Fourth fireworks show, was eventually canceled because of rain. The few hundred who did show up huddled under sheets of plastic or found shelter under the press box in Cessna Stadium and wat- ched dancers on the field until the downpour. The next day - game day - was sunny, however. There was another parade which ran along Zlst Street from Brittany Center to campus, where the floats were judged and then pulled onto the Alumni House lawn for the Shocktoberfest. Over 15,000 people showed up for the game between the Shockers and the UTA Mavericks, which the Shockers did lose 15-17 but the game was exciting. WSU scored most of its points in the last half, making it seem they just might stay close enough to win. Early in the first half, WSU kicked a field goal to keep the score close, 3-10. One man, wearing a heart-shaped yellow foam hat that read, Love ya', Shockers, seemed somewhat surprised but offered an encourag- ing, 'Shocks are lookin' good. All right, they got some points on the board.' It wasn't until the fourth quarter that WSU began pulling close enough to give some hope. Rod Stewart, class of 1968, said, They're playing a helluva lot better than they did Cagainst Navada-Las! Vegas. Even if they lose today they've had some really good plays. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Linda Stein stuffs her long underwear in the balloon stuffing competition, an event in the water festival at the Heskett Center. 10!8!84 Members of audience offer a beer to the band, The Clique, during the homecoming dance in the CAC ballroom. 10!13!84 Don Schmidt, guitarist for The Cli- que, works up a sweat during his per- formance. 10113184 Licking an ice cream cone, Marcy Hickerson watches the judging of the homecoming floats at Shocktoberfest. 10!13!84 , 4 3 Sh e Don Shreve Shockers Fall Short In Fourth Quarter At that moment, WSU dropped an easy pass play. Dave Crockett, class of 1966, earlier sitting dispassionately in front of Stewart, gritted his teeth and bit the stem of his pipe so hard it snapped in two. Homecoming Week closed with the dance held in the Campus Activities Center Ballroom. Mike Madecky, CAC activities director, sighed, 'This has been a long week. There ought to be at least 47 days in this week. The dance got off to a slow start. The band, the Clique, and the audience were separated by 30 feet of dance floor - no one ventured out onto the floor. Most people lin- ed the walls and tables at the rear of the ballroom. Carl Zuel said he thought people were tired. 'A lot of fraternities and sororities stayed up all last night getting their floats together.' Organizers tried to get the crowd to loosen up by offering free beer. People jammed the beer concession but stayed off the dance floor. Sandra Holestine said she wasn't going to dance until someone else went out there. When the band took their first break, they weren't sure what to do. 'The crowd was kind of tight the first few songs and they were so far away,' said Don Schmidt, lead guitarist. 'lt's hard to tell if they like us. I think later on people will be out there. But it's hard to play to an empty floor. During the second set, people did move out onto the floor - the free beer had end- ed. One gentleman in a purple lzod shirt went up to the keyboard player and offered him a suspicious-looking hand-rolled cigarette - a sign that the band was establishing a following, at least for the night - which was judiciously refused. Later that night, the awards for Homecoming were presented. 'This is where is gets ugly,' said one member of the Homecoming steering committee. When a group went up to claim its trophy, yells of Bullshit and catcalls drowned out everything else. Beta Theta Pi won the Division One overall award as well as the house display and the float competition. Delta Gamma won the Division Two float award while Delta Delta Delta won the overall. Biology Club claimed the Division Three overall trophy. Story by Peter Ingmire 1 -ir 11 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Melinda Moody, center, watches happily as the Shockers score in the fourth quarter. 10fl3f84 Kevin Pierce, 89, is stripped of the ball by UTA's David Phillips, 22. 10!l3!84 Bass drummer Buck Gillet follows the closing minutes of the game. 10!13!84 Darrell Adams, 35, Broc Fewin, ll, Nathanial Hayes, 932 and Dave Ar- magost, 28 take the field at the start of the game. 10!l3!84 Eric Denson, 23, leaps over UTA defenders during part of his 56-yard rushing performance. l0!l3!84 ii 5, 'ii PORTRAIT 'Itchin', Gnawin' Inside,' Cartoonist Lets Go With Controversy 'ls he really as much of an asshole as his cartoons portray him to be?' Doug Ramsey asked of himself while laughing. As the editorial cartoonist for the Sunflower, Doug Ramsey has received a lot of harsh press for his controversial commen- taries on national and international events as well as incidents on campus. Many students found these to be abhorrent enough to publicly protest. A letter to the editor that appeared in the Sept. 19 Sunflower from 'A VERY concerned journalism major,' ended by stating, 'The thought that my tax and tuition dollars go to pay his salary makes me want to vomit up blood. This particular letter was addressing Ramsey's cartoon depicting vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro sitting behind a desk in the oval office, worrying about a bur- ning meatloaf and complaining of pre- menstrual syndrome. Readers wrote that they found this par- ticular cartoon to be ludicrous, derogatory, tasteless, sexist and 'incredibly unjust.' 'Ferraro was just a vicious little attackf' Ramsey said, adding that he knew while he was drawing the cartoon that it was a con- troversial piece. He knew that it was going to get people 'fired up. And that, he said, was the reason he did it. 'I just had this really mean idea and Ijust decided to do it,' Ramsey said. 'Every once in a while I've got to do something like that, I guess. ljust get itchin' inside, gnawing, and I've got to let it go about twice or three times a semester. 'l've been controversial before,' he said, recalling a cartoon published in the Sunflower last spring which depicted Dorothy with Toto saying to him, 'Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.' Beside her Ramsey had drawn two Arab students speaking what he described as 'pig-Arabic.' The, paper and Ramsey himself received much criticism over the cartoon. One letter, signed by 20 people, including former presi- dent Clark Ahlberg, stated: 'The cartoon was an insult to everything that a university is and that an educated person ought to be.' It was also discussed at the Student Government Association General Conven- tion held a few weeks later. However, no ac- tion was taken against the paper or Ramsey in the matter. Returning to his cartoons done this year, Ramsey said, 'On Ferraro, I really didn't hope to show them fthe readersl anythingf' Ramsey maintains that he tries to keep his cuts even between political candidates, but he went on to state, 'The woman does not have the knowledge to even try to be in the position she's going for. He thought this was especially apparent in the vice-presidential debates. But he admitted that Ferraro might not be any less qualified for office than President Reagan, for whom Ramsey voted. 'I'll be honest with you, I'm not that big of a Reagan fan, either. It's just in this election it's the lesser of two evils.' Although Ramsey said he does not con- sider himself a politician, he was elected to the Student Government Association as senator for the College of Fine Arts with five write-in votes. He answered with a cartoon featuring himself that made fun of the situa- tion. 'I don't know if editorial Cartooning is my bag or not, but it's a heck of a good start, Ramsey said. Referring to his work in the Sunfower, he said, 'Right now it's really about the only thing that I can do if I want to get published and that's about the only way you're going to make a name for yourself. Ramsey gets his ideas for cartoons from various sources. He admits that although he is too busy to read the newspaper he does watch 'CNN Headline News' on the Cable 'News Network. 'Thank God for cable TV,' he said. ' To keep abreast of campus events, lRamsey said that he keeps in contact with .the Sunflower. But, he said, they usually lshrug their shoulders and tell him to 'make something up. ' When he does pick up a paper he looks at jeff MacNelly's comic strip Slzoe. 'He fMacNellyJ is the best political cartoonist in lthe world today, Ramsey said. 'The guy is a draftsman. He's super. He's what everybody hopes to be. He's God.' ' Ramsey was also quite enthusiastic about lBloom County by Berk Breathed. I 'Bloom County is great. It's a cute little strip. Those two guys are probably my two biggest heroes, he said, referring to Breath- 'ed and MacNelly. However, Ramsey considers Doonesbufy, another very popular nationally syndicated cartoon, 'trash, because he heard that its creator, Gary Trudeau, has a ghost artist do- ing his work. Ramsey also called the new animated car- toons trash. 'It's a disgrace what they're do- ing to Saturday morning cartoons, he said. 'I love old Disney, old Mickey Mouse, before they ruined him,' he said, 'back when he had the pie eyes. They gave him human eyes and they made him into a human and they just ruined him.' 'I like the old MGM Tom and Jenys. Violent stuff. Old Bugs Bunny. 'What's Opera Doc? - a great Bugs Bunny cartoon,' he said. 'That's when he is doing opera with Elmer Fudd and Elmer is dressed up in a viking uniform and all that. He's got this big oversized helmet and he's marching around. Ramsey started singing, 'Killed a wabbit, killed a wabbit, and broke off. 'It's great. I love it. lt's a classicf' - Story by Madeline McCullough Photo by Paul J antzi With New Spiritualit , Artist Finds Permanence In Work While growing up, Kathleen Shanahan, associate professor in studio arts, admits she wasn't 'super passionate' about art. She did draw and liked art classes but because the town of Owosso, Mich. - near Lansing - where she lived was so small, she did not have an art teacher until the 10th grade. 'When I went to the University of Michigan, I was a liberal arts major, but a lot of my friends transferred into art. I didn't think they were any better than me, so it gave me confidence to transfer also. So I switched and did pretty well. I enjoyed it a lot. I decided I could develop myself through that medium, that I could grow a lot working in art. Art forces one to intensely scrutinize an object, Shanahan said, and through that scrutiny comes growth. Analyzing the object along with thinking and feeling something about it helps form an intimate bond, and this has led her to a new sense of spirituality. 'As a child, I went to church for a while, but my family all dropped out of the church so that kind of bottomed out,' she said. 'I think the activity of art can be a kind of religious substizute. Your most inspired times are related to religious experiences, somewhat. To that extent, I think I've come to know a spiritual dimension that is satisfy- ing to me. 'Once you've done some drawing, your eyes are much more wide open to everything around you and you don't take it for granted quite so much.' As art fulfilled a spiritual need, it also became a release. 'I get pretty moody if I don't get into the studio, for a couple of reasons. First, if you're teaching something, you don't want to be a fake. If you're teaching it every day and you're not doing it, you feel more and more guilty, more and more sheepish. You think, 'How can I have anything to offer if I'm not even doing it?' 'But I also get moody because it is an im- portant activity in my life. It's kind of a therapy. When I do it I feel like I'm coming home - it feels right. And I wonder why I don't do this more often, instead of running around doing dumb stuff like cleaning the house and washing the dishesf' She said although art helps relieve her stress and becomes a form of meditation, 'it has its own element of stress because it is demanding. And if you do it well - like anything you want to do - you tend to avoid it because you are afraid you will fail. It's like an approachfavoidance kind of thing. But when I'm not doing it I get owly, bitchy and critical. When I get back to it, instantly I feel better, even if the drawing is real crude. 'I had an operation awhile back - nothing serious - and because I am such a wimp I worried about it before and after the opera- tion. A friend of mine said that when I got back to drawing that would be healing also. In 1974, Shanahan graduated from the University of Arizona with a Master of Fine Arts degree. She eventually took a teaching position at the University of Missouri. While there she took a leave of absence to go to japan to study japanese folk art. 'I was supposed to be looking for modern examples of the japanese aesthetic, Shanahan said, adding that she was looking for a continuum between old japanese art and modern design. japan was a big change for her. She was a minority in a foreign landg all language skills were snatched away from her. But she develop.ed an appreciation of japanese art and culture and adopted part of the Japanese ethos. She learned there was a distinct dif- ference between how the japanese and the United States perceive the value and nature of art. 'It was like being reborn. I think that hap- pens when you are in another culture. It makes you see your own culture a lot more freshly. And because it is different - there are hardly any caucasians or any other strain besides the japanese - it was a real eye- opener. I developed an appreciation for japanese culture. But, by the same token, I was more relaxed when I returned home. I was pretty tense the whole time I was there. When you don't know a language, you can't communicate - it alienates you. Shanahan said the japanese draw from childhood. It is considered a form of com- munication, not a gift. 'They never con- gratulate you for having talent. Here, we trip ourselves up by setting such high standards. We think we have to perform as well as Rembrandt to keep people interested. If we just do it at our own level for our own pleasure, it wouldn't be such a competitive sort of thing. She returned to the University of Missouri to teach one more year before accepting her position at Wichita State University. Having moved around so much in 10 years makes her want to plant some roots and establish new friendships. But there are times when she questions whether it's possible to balance teaching art with her own needs to create. 'I've done the artistfteacher routine before and, from time to time, I think I'll get away from teaching for a while because I'd like to do just art. But on the other hand, it's pretty fun to be around here. It's stimulating because the students are always coming up with something new.' Story by Nora Grissom Photo by Madeline McCullough PORTRAIT . Establishing A Home Base, Sculptor Practices Art Of Self-Reliance Grabbing the steel tongs during a mid- night bronze pour last summer, Sherry Nickell-Land eased the crucible carrying over 25 pounds of molten bronze out of the forge. The crucible was transferred to lifters to hold it steady over the investments which were secured in sand. Nickell-Land was practically sheathed in leather aprons, chaps, gloves and spats, and wore a hat for protection, but moved about quickly and with athletic grace. After the bronze was poured, she took off her protec- tive clothing, hat and goggles, which made her look like a nerd. The pour is the most technical part, Nickell-Land said, 'which is nice because when you're working with a piece so much of it is conceptual. When you can hit a stretch where you are working only on technical fac- tors, it's fun.' She said she produces only a few pieces a year and is very meticulous about her work and her concepts. She spends so much time with an idea because she feels it is important to communicate an idea or feeling. 'I produce maybe three to four pieces a year because I honestly feel I don't need to produce a piece unless I really have something to say. If I just produce it to pro- ject the image that I am a sculptor and I'm trying to get people to see me as a sculptor, then my sculpture will be empty. lt's real painful to do sculpture for me. Nothing has ever been easy for me. lt's more like having a baby in the sense that every decision is difficult. There's a lot of soul- searching in every decision.' Nickell-Land received her master's degree in fine arts from Wichita State University last year. In September of 1984, she moved to Salina, Kan., to live in a house free provided she did the repairs. But she also left Wichita because she started feeling too comfortable. 'If I start feeling contented then I start feeling guilty and I start thinking, 'Why do I feel contented? I worry about whether I'm making decisions based on comfort or deci- sions based on fear, decisions based on am- bition.' Having a home base will give her more freedom. I wouldn't feel like I have to tote my table saw, my joiner plane, my welding equipment around with me which is what I'd have to do now. Salina is so plain and simple. No one looks at me and says, 'She's a sculptor.' Even if they did they'd have no concept of what I do or why. I'm not married and I don't have a family and I live in substandard housing that's barely functional and they think I'm nuts. And it's great because no one expects anything of me. Her house is old and run-down. There are holes in the roof that look into the attic where she sleeps, and few electrical outlets which is fortunate because the outlets are ar- chaic and dangerous. She has been working to put on a new roof and make the house livable. She does most all the work by herself. That idea of self-reliance exists in her art, too. She said her nature is introverted which sometimes keeps people out of her work. It's hard to let go of that control when you're doing it yourself. She said she sees that a balance can exist between allowing someone else to help and losing the sense of control over the work. But at this particular point in my sculpture I don't really feel like I have to. Most of her fellow students were male as were all of her teachers. Often, they would come over to help and take over what she was doing. 'That made me feel real claustrophobic' She said there's an attraction to sculpting because it's masculine but she is trying to erase that image. ln sculpture, the problem is to take a Z0-foot piece of steel, have it retain its strength and turn that into an organic shape, Nickell-Land said. There's a masculine challenge to that, saying, 'Oh, I can bend this.' I want to try to feminize it, to make it into a feminine form. I think a lot of the skills involved in work- ing with steel are very feminine. Welding I look at as very feminine. It's very enclosed, the whole world is shut out when you're welding. It's like women sitting and doing tatting. You've got this hood on Qin weldingl and you see nothing except for this little spot an inch in diameter - like the birth of a universe, all this fire and things merging together. It's real wonderful and I see it as being real feminine. By keeping her sculpting from being a career, Nickell-Land feels she has retained control in her art and with herself. She said commercial artists now are being seduced by galleries to produce works that do not hold much value. There's a need, as an artist, to get ap- plause. I try to pick situations where I'm not ever important. It goes back to never being contented. You've always got to be question- ing or else you'll end up with a formula you stay with the rest of your life. 'I think I'm closer to not being an elitist and being more public with my work in Salina where farmers see my work than I would being in New York. You have much more of an ability to educate and to com- municate when you're dealing with people that don't have preconceived ideas about what art is and should be. I've had a show in Salina before and I've had farmers come to my show and Ijust lov- ed their reaction. I love being able to talk to them. The way you talk to a farmer about a piece of sculpture is a lot different than the way you talk to someone like Martin Bush about sculpture. lt's from the heart.' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough A Midsummer Night's Pour Sculptors' Aim To Hit Mold With Bronze The blast furnace on the west patio of Henrion Gym, where the sculpture depart- ment has staked out its territory, roared like a jet engine. David Olson, assistant pro- fessor, shielded his face with his arm, check- ing the furnace to see how much bronze had melted. Like the other sculptors working, Olson wore dark glasses and heavy clothes for pro- tection. The metal melts at about 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit and is best when it is between 1,950 to 1,980 degrees. When the metal reached about 2,050 degrees, shortly before midnight, the furnace was shutoff. Up until this point, during the hours it takes to melt the bronze, the work was slow and measured. The molds, set in sand pits, were given a final check before the bronze was poured. After three hours of preparation for the pour, the scene picks up speed. The pour itself causes the most excite- ment in terms of seeing molten metal, which brings on feelings of times past, Olson said. You know, here you are manipulating fires and furnaces at 2,100 degrees. 'There is a certain amount of appeal to that, seeing molten metal. But that's only a small part of the whole process, he said. The bronze melt is part of the act. It's part of the means and not the end in itself. But it's also very visible. The sculpture department has brought in more equipment for doing pours, Olson said. We are pushing the aspect of a foundry that we can use to cast anything here,' he said. Last year, the sculpture department was commissioned to design and execute a bronze facade commemorating the late Col. james jabara. lt's not so much that it's fthe foundryl be- ing pushed above other areas, he said. lt's just developing it up with everything else that's going on. But that's what seems to excite people - the idea of making metal melt, changing its state and being able to change its state back again, Olson said. 'The process has been used for hundreds and hundreds of years. lt's like a link to the past, in that we're us- ing a certain process used four or five hun- dred years ago, but using technologies available within the last 10 or l5 years, too, in terms of waxes that are used, metals that are used. lt's the most passionate part. It's medieval - you wonder if you've done enough dances to the pour gods while you're using gas from Kansas Gas Service. Story by Peter Ingmire otos by Madeline McCullough CLOCKWISE FROM TOP I.El?l': Sculpture instructor, Dave Olson, shields himself from the heat of the furnace while checking the melting bronze inside. 7!l3!84 Sherry Nickell-Land quickly shifts position to center the crucible over the mold. 7fl3!84 W'earing an insulated glove, Brian Curtis guides the molten bronze from the crucible into the molds. 10!l0!84 Graduate student Brian Curtis checks the temperature of the molten bronze with a pyrometer. 10!10!84 PORTRAIT SBNNY Still Challenging The Mainstream, New Dean Goes His Own Way In jeans Buzz True was the scourge of the town, Richard St. john said, a tragic figure. He had gone to war, returned shell-shocked and became an alcoholic. 'If he was drunk, St. john said, he was aa pathetic kind of person. But if he was halfway drunk or sober, he was super intelligent. 'One time I was walking down the highway with him and some kids threw firecrackers because when noises would go off he would go into a little convulsion, the shakes. So some younger kids threw stuff at him. And when they did I grabbed this kid and was ready to punch him out. And he said, 'No.' He'd say things like, 'If you want to be a man, you have to learn to look over ig- norancef He'd say things like that all the time. I really admired him.' St. John leaned back in the chair of his new office and adjusted his ever-present 'Rio Sonny' baseball cap. He guides his life and art by the rule: Decide for yourself, then go your own way. Recently named the acting Assistant Dean of the College of Fine Arts, he still won't give up on one of the 'two things I always wanted tohdo - I decided this when I was pretty young. I always wanted to wear jeansg jeans are important to me. And the second thing was, I always wanted to work outdoors. So I got half of what I wanted - I always wear jeans. He likes to see things work his way, he said, which is why he took the new position although he considers himself a better teacher than administrator. There are times, he said, when he asks himself why he's doing it. Like, I walk into meetings and, 'Who's the guy with the jeans on? But I'm working with other administrators and a lot of people now that I have never worked with before all across campus. And there's a certain kind of reward in knowing that you can be effective and you can get things done and it doesn't matter whether you're wearing a three-piece suit, leisure suit. 'There are certain things I'd like to see happen. It's kind of like the difference bet- ween driving a motorcycle 100 miles an hour and riding on the back. If you're riding on the back you don't feel nearly as safe.' St. john grew up in the Kansas City, Mo., area. He enrolled in an agricultural college but switched to art when his counselor ex- plained to him that with his degree he could get a job as a meat inspector or a field crops agent. He said he just wanted to ride around in a jeep on a big piece of land and say, 'How's it goin', fellas He thought aft classes would be easy and leave him plenty of time to 'drink beer and eat pizza.' But he transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute and met several art students who strengthened his dedication to art. 'The main thing it did was change my at- titude about life because I got real serious. Up until then I wasn't too serious. I went to the art institute and it was a professional school.' The institute was not accredited, so the students who went there did so because they were serious about their art, St. John said, and not for a degree. I was just overwhelmed with being around young people that serious about anything. That changed my whole attitude toward college. I got real serious and started workingf' He became interested in clay and ceramics while at the art institute. After graduating with a degree - the art institute received accreditation while he was there - he ended up going to graduate school to New York State College of Ceramics at ?9w Alford University, considered one of the finest ceramics schools in the nation. Yeah, it's a hot dog school for clay.' After earning his master's degree he came to Wichita State University in 1969 to build the ceramics program, which he looked upon as a challenge. He said he's done a good job of establishing the program. Part of what he has tried to bring to his students is the sense of themselves in their art. 'Art is an extension of your personality. You paint, or draw, or sculpt - whatever you do - the things that you like, and you don't waste a lot of time painting something that you don't like. You choose. And it's always an extension of your personality - or it should be. I've always told students that when you look at your work, the most important thing is that you should see yourself. You should see your own taste, or your own personality in that work. 'If you don't, if you see somebody else's, if you're influenced by somebody else's taste or their manner, their likes, then the work is not valid. 'I think somewhere in education we're missing a real important point. I think we're teaching people how to conform, but we're not teaching them how to think. I definitely don't believe in doing what's always ex- pected. When I die, I want to looh hath and know that I did more than just own a house in the suburbs with a two-car garage, a riding lawn mower in the front yard and a four-door Buick in the driveway. Story by Susan Pitcher Photo by Madeline McCullough Maintaining Fiery Vigil For Ceramics Fans, which sat around the base of the wood kiln, forcing air into the firebox to make the fire hotter and more efficient, made the only sound at 5 a.m. Bob Scherzer was sitting in a lawn chair watching the kiln which had been going since about 1:30 a.m. He would be there until late afternoon pull- ing a marathon of diligence until the porcelain vessels he was firing were finished. Most firings begin between midnight and 3 a.m. - rarely later than 6 a.m. Scherzer said it is easier mentally to work through the night and be finished by late afternoon the next day. You have to get mentally ready to be go- ing that long,' Scherzer said. You tell yourself, 'Yep, I know where I'm going to be for the next 16 to 18 hours.' lt's like cross- country driving, like driving to California in one-and-a-half days. 'At night when it's real late and there's no one around, you have to keep yourself going. You're just waiting for Morning Edition to come on the radio - l've had my fill of religious sermons, those programs that come on - that's when you try to use patience, your perserverancef' Firing pottery has been going on for cen- turies, Scherzer said, as far back as the dawn of civilization. For a while, the art of firing by wood was on the wane because of the expe- diency of gas and electric kilns. Coal has even been used to fire pottery. Whatever burns, Sherzer said. Wood-fired pottery is special because of flashing and the ash from the fire box which can mark the Works to become part of the color and glaze. The minerals and gases that are naturally in the wood causes flashing when combusted. The type of wood affects the color of the pot as well as where it is placed in the kiln for the most ash deposit and the type of clay used. Porcelain will fire a glossy orange while stoneware is darker. Wood kilns have gone through a renaissance, especially since the 19605. Because the process is not as easy to control, Scherzer said, a lot of experimentation is in- volved before one can start to control variables such as ash and flashing. It takes a least 10, 15 or 20 firings to know the kiln and increase your odds. By then you start to get a feel for where the ash will fall in the chamber which is the effect you want to get. The kiln has to be watched all the time and the firebox has to be fed with wood to keep slowly increasing the temperature. Ash has to be removed to keep the fire efficient and the damper can be played with to adjust air flow through the kiln, Scherzer said. l'But as the famous saying goes, 'At all costs, just keep putting in the wood.' ' By early afternoon, the pace had picked up. There was no longer any time to sit and watch the fire. Wood from a huge stack of lxl V2X39-ll'1Cl1 boards sitting along a wall in the patio where the kiln is, was added about every 30 seconds. Because the fire burns so hot, it combusts instantly, leaving no ash. By the time a firing is complete, about a cord of wood will have been used. A ceramic student walked past asking, What's it at?' Scherzer pulled out a brick on the side of the kiln and looked through a spy hole. At cone ll up top,' he said. And 10's going over now. Inside the central chamber bathed in an orange glow two cone packs are placed which act as a thermometer. The small ceramic cones are numbered - the higher its number, the higher its melting point. When cone 1 1 has 'gone over,' the porcelain vessels should be done. Other ceramic students will come by, ask- ing how it's going and what cone it's at, Scherzer said, to find out what stage the fir- ing is at. After working that long, it's good to have that social support. 'Tempers don't flare because you've got to be there for 18 hours. The kiln has all the fire you want.' Three or four people will get together to fire a kiln, which helps divide the work, Scherzer said, although he will often work alone. You get more pots that way.' If so- meone spaces out, someone else will be there to help. People stay pretty relaxed and take what happens as it comes, he said. For example, if the supports inside the chamber topples there's nothing to do ex- cept wait to see what damage, if any, was done. Afterwards, there's a tradition of cooking pizzas in the kiln,' Scherzer said. Potatoes are cooked in the coals, too. By then, you're all black and sooty and you're eating black and sooty food. That's one of those romantic notions that's probably not as romantic when you do it. The most important thing is you get some dynamite pots when you open the door that you can't get in any other firing. You invest so much time and effort into making pots and the firing. That's what l think it boils down to for most people. It's really the result, not the processf' Story by Peter Ingmire c'- ' if ?'.x-R In lit' A xl K kv I 'fi . il. W . 'W '- Q Q A x 'U 4' N P- gi I., f f 1 x Q f T -' Li.-xx if 1' sl,-e v AV J K I lk g Igj: If X K if ' :X .,. '44 ,M-A M, 1 'f ' 4 if C? ' , 1' l v 4' X' .. up 1? 1 12 Hanson's Meeting Of Life And Art Last spring, about 80,000 people toured the Ulrich Museum of Art to view the sculptures of Duane Hanson. The life-like castings, cool and distant, were not beautiful in and of themselves. The figures of the lower working class serve to act as a representation of society as seen through the artist's eyes, wishing to focus in on the quiet desperation of their lives. People who saw the exhibit generally smil- ed when first seeing the sculptures - a self- conscious act to dispel the initial feeling of embarrassment and the sense of intrusion. The sculptures are posed in a moment of reflection and fatigue - a visual catching of breath. It is the recognition of that moment from which the appreciation of the work grows. 'Art meets life,' said Tom Gormally, assis- tant curator who worked with Hanson for a week on the exhibit. That's the way I'm characterizing it every day.' Gormally said he's focused on the reaction of the people coming to the exhibit. My feeling is that people are relating to the realism of the work. They were all laughing, they were all joking and talking with people they didn't even know, which is something people don't generally do. 'A woman came up to me, she was about 80 years old, and she said, 'I just can't believe this. Look at all these people.' I told her I'd really been noticing how much people are enjoying it and I couldn't figure it out. She said, 'Well, maybe it's because people identify with it.' I said, 'Yeah, but the characterization of the people fish so heavy and despondentf She said, 'It doesn't make any difference. That's what makes them feel good, that they do relate to them.' I said, 'Oh, it's kind of like the blues.' She looked at me and I said, 'You know, when you're feeling kind of low and somebody plays some really gutsy blues and it makes you feel better and you walk out of there on air.' She kind of looked at me and said, 'Son, I think you've been working this exhibit too long.' In 1976, Hanson knew he had cance form of Hodgkins Disease. A year ago, Ht son was told he had six months to live, saio Mr, -,,,,, s Stziilpliinf APRIL 25- M1310 Martin Bush, vice president of academic resourses and a friend of Hanson. The cancer has been arrested and Hanson has returned to his normal full work schedule. Bush speculated the reason Hanson's figures look sorrowful or, at least, aren't smiling may be in part because of the disease. Hanson also looks upon happiness as transitory, Bush said. The beauty, since it is not on the surface, lies underneath. The initial smile of recogni- tion becomes one of intimate familiarity, Hanson's figures communicate a particular moment balanced between recline and decline. 'I think Hanson was reacting to the images being projected through the media,' said Gary Buettgenbach, assistant curator. 'He rebelled against the 'beautiful people' images that were being advertised as the way people look.' 'He makes a statement about the kind of people he uses,' Gormally said. Generally he uses very heavy people. He considers their forms more sculptural and having to do with being part of the history of sculpture as far as volume and the form and lines are con- cerned.' Hanson first has the idea of what a sculpture should be and then begins looking for a model to fit that idea. If a model cannot be found which Hanson feels represents what he wishes to convey, the idea may die. This nearly happened to the work Queenie, The Cleaning Lady. From Wichita, the exhibit went to japan. The museum in Tokyo had record-breaking attendance. Gormally said Hanson's works gives other societies a different view of the United States. 'Most countries have a media impression of us,' Gormally said, 'something they have seen on T.V. or in movies like westerns and cop shows. This is a working class image, what a lot of people are like or feel like sometimes. The popularity of the work is based, in part, on the technical aspect of the sculpture, Buettgenbach said. The figures are of everyday people, he said, so the rela- tionship between the work and the viewer is easy to make. There is some debate as to whether Han- son's work is art or craft. Gormally said he understands the argument for not calling it art but thinks Hanson does organize his figures compositionally as well as use color, line and form. Hanson has to think a lot to make the work come together as a whole, he said. Buettgenbach said the value of Hanson is that it is intriguing and gets people into the museum and thinking about art. KA lot of these people are first-time visitors and hopefully they'll come back. Story by Peter Ingmire .F W, ' . .s- ' Eff. . fi . Artist's Death Prompts New Interest Inez Marshall was a sculptor who made her own tools, never had an art lesson, or us- ed measuring devices. Her inspiration and vision came from her religious beliefs. A traffic accident proved to be the catalyst in Marshall's life. When she was in her 20s, living on a farm, she was driving home late one night, and dozed off and hit a bridge abutment. During her 18 months of con- valescence, she began to carve small figures. 'She depended on prayer after her acci- dent and became closer to the Lord,' recall- ed her sister, Mabel Haitt. For many years she perfected her art. In 1967 she opened the Continen- tal Sculpture Hall in Por- tis, Kan. For 31.25 admis- sion fee, visitors could see life-size limestone carvings of, among other works, the Lincoln family. She also created miniature scenes such as a hnspital, a church and a school house. Marshall used handmade screwdrivers for chiseling limestone, thought to be a difficult material to carve. She used limestone because it was plentiful to the Portis area. Her work is outstanding not only for its originality, but also for its intricacy and at- tention to detail. One example would be her rendition of the Last Supper, set in a turn-of- the-century midwest building, with Christ and the apostles upstairs and a Kansas farm woman directing the meal downstairs. Also included in her collection are such details as a tiny pot-bellied stove that burns wood, windows that move up and down and lamps that light - Marshall did all her own electrical work. The artist became ill in August of 1983 and fell into a coma. Because of her illness, the state demanded her work be sold to pay for her medical bills. An auction was held and Dr. A.H. Foster, a surgeon from Flor- dia, bought all of her sculptures. The collec- tion was distributed between the Ulrich Museum of Art and Fort Hays State Univer- sity. Marshall died one week after the ex- hibit opened at the Ulrich. It makes me happy to know her work is being shown and people enjoy it. It's a tribute to her, not that she ever wanted any glory. She always wanted to give the Lord the credit. -Mabel Haitt 'This is an outstanding collection of naive art,' said Gary Hood, curator of the Ulrich. There is a free and open, almost childlike approach to her art,' added Gary Buettgen- bach, assistant curator. She didnit carry the burden, didn't care about selling, or about notoriety, or proportions or elements of design. Yet her vision was intricate. I hope the exhibit will stay in Kansasf' Like many folk artists, Marshall lived all her life in rural America. She grew up in North Branch, Kan., two miles from the Nebraska border. The strong religious over- tones in her work are also part of her upbr- inging. Her sister recalled their mother, a Quaker, as being strict in her beliefs, but not narrow-minded. One of Marshall's favorite subjects, Presi- dent Lincoln, figures prominently in her family background. 'Our grandfather was a very patriotic per- son,' Haitt said. He lied about his age and fought in the Civil War in the Slst Indiana Regiment. In fact he carried a bullet in his leg to his grave. Their grandfather was courtmartialed for shooting before the order was given. He later received a full presidential pardon from President Lincoln. He also once rode on a float in a parade in Springfield, Mo., with Lincoln. Although Marshall never sold any of her major works and did not want the collection split up, her sister felt the Ulrich ex- hibit would make her feel rewarded for her work. 'It makes me happy to know her work is being shown and people enjoy it,' Haitt said. lt's a tribute to her, not that she ever wanted any glory. She always wanted to give the Lord the creditf' Marshall never married, even though she was engaged three times. 'She always said sculpting was her family - what she made with her own hands, Haitt said. Story by Kate Wintrol WB RRR? WU lal'l.5,'3 N V ASSXSSINATED ,um.x-mess Q V mswonns orwivipon ,I J, ,, A 14ANNn1imivm If ' , , riiinisruuvx nv UISCUURAUING w :mum v 1 :Amor s1su:rm1'nl: unuvwuxmmo souiwnur u n .4 N TM! nvn1 Mir! 1 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A hand-painted sign welcomes visitors to Marshall's sculpture hall. 11!5!84 The life-size Lincoln family sit near a table laden with china. l1f5!84 A doctor and nurse prepare for surgery in the miniature Sunshine Hospital. ll!5!84 Dwight D. Eisenhower with flag shows Marshalls patriotism. l1!5f4 PORTRAIT A Quiet Demeanor Captures The Sounds Cf Malaise While he's a quiet person, said composer Walter Mays, in the area of music I'm not quietf' Mays, professor of musicologylcomposi- tion, was nominated for a Pulitzer prize in 1981 for his work, Voifes from tl1eFiefy Winds, based on the biblical story of Ezekial. A five- minute clip from another piece, Wargames, a composition combining music and live wrestling, was once shown on national news. He has received a great deal of attention because of the work, which, he said, is not one of his best pieces, although it has been his most popular. 'I did the wrestling piece quickly,' he said. It's been such a success with the public - it's hard to judge whether it's an artistic suc- cess.' Because the piece is open in structure, allowing the musicians to follow the movements of the wrestlers, Mays has been interviewed by psychologists about violence in the arts. I'm not sure what I was trying to say. I did it because it was exciting to do. I was trying to say something about violence and perfor- mances. There's an analogy between music and wrestling, he said. 'Both are prepared per- formances to which the audience responds in calculated ways.' In a concert hall, the coordination and discoordination between the musicians and wrestlers has a violent and surrealistic effect, he said. Although the piece proved to be entertain- ing, in his music 'entertainment is pretty far down the list of what I'm trying to do,' he said. As a result, his work is an elitist activi- ty, which, he said, he doesn't consider bad. ul try to incorporate the full range of emo- tions in my music, not just what's joyous, but what is terrifying, mysterious and uncertain. In his music he tries to incorporate the malaise he sees in today's society. I'here's a lot of uncertainty from not knowing what's going to happen - we don't know what the future will bring.' Mays, who describes his music as an outgrowth of classical music, does not con- u sider it experimental. 'I incorporate only the approved and valued. I've rejected what is only experimentalf The individuality important to American society tends to be reflected in contem- porary music, he said. 'Musicians today are in a difficult position. The social function of what we do is not as clearly defined as it has been in the past, when there were court musicians and poets. It doesn't make it easy to produce art.' Mays got into music relatively late, he said. Seriously interested in drawing and painting from the age of four, he began to play the clarinet in the school band when he was 13. Within six months, music took over,' he said. Like most composers, Mays said, he ex- perienced 'rather intensive development as a performer before I got into compositionf But, he said, I would always add to things, embellish them, do them differently, in a backwards fashion to see what would happen. That's dangerous in performance' As a result, he began to compose when he was 20, after he had entered what is now the College Conservatory of Music of the University of Cinncinati. For the next 10 years, he tried to balance composing and performing. But when he came to WSU 14 years ago, he began to compose exclusively. 'It wasn't an easy decision but you can't put enormous energy into both,' he said. You can't be really serious about both, you canit be recognized in both fields.' Meanwhile, he said, his interest in draw- ing and painting has been incorporated into his composition process. 'In composing, sometimes I use visual drawings to put down musical ideas. Mays said that he began to teach partly because he always found it easy to explain things. But more importantly, universities provide sustenance for musicians. The university atmosphere and resources make him more productive, he said. While com- posing, he can go to various instrumentalists and have them play parts of compositions he is working on. What's in my head becomes real,' he said. Often instrumentalists inspire him to write pieces, he said. He considers one of his best works to be a violin concerto he wrote ten years ago for james Ceasar, distinguished professor of violin and music performance. You're fulfilling a need for someone if you understand their psychology, and you have a better chance of communicatingf' he said. He also often writes pieces for particular instrumentalists because, he said, it's like having a fine actor - you want to build something around him.' But the university can also present pro- blems in that it's difficult to balance teaching and composing, Mays said. While finding time to do both is a problem, a deeper pro- blem is that teaching is an analytical skill while composing is a creative one. 'It is a little hard to shift gears,' he said. It's dangerous to get too heavily involved with teaching because it's an intellectual ac- tivity. You need to let your unconscious and the unknown take you and lead you.' While he is only skillful on the clarinet, he said, he uses a piano and synthesizer to com- pose. Then, a few years ago, one of his com- positions led to his learning to play another instrument - the musical saw. Twentieth-century composers explore unusual percussion instruments,' he said. In his Six Invocations to the Svara Mandala, which eventually won first place in the 1974 Percussive Arts Society National Composi- tion Contest, he included a part for the musical saw. The piece was especially suc- cessful, and he arranged several perfor- mances by percussion groups throughout the country. Because no one knew how to play the musical saw, he had to learn and give crash courses. He composes 'at home and late at night, he said. 'Everyday sounds are distracting because you have to image in your head. So- meone playing in the next room drowns out fragile ideas - ideas that aren't well-formed yet. You want to let them jostle around until they come to some shape.' Story by Nancy Francoeur Photo by Kenn Murphy uintet's Strength Is Personal Harmon The dissonant sound M scales and excerpts he- ing played together drtfed from behind the wall in the Ulrich Museum WF Art. The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet was warming up in prepara- tion for its fall faculty concert. Dressed in white tie and tails and long hlach dresses, the members checked and aehusted equhoment, hept reeds soj9, instruments warm and tuned, and tried to stay relaxed. Linda Strommen and Frances Shelbf, perhaps a little more calm than the three men, organized the group to go onstage and give another near- flawless musical performance. Well, Richard Beene said as 0' he leaving for a long trip, 'see you tomorrow. Few universities have a faculty ensemble that rehearses and performs on a profes- sional level. But, for what adds up to about three weeks during the year, the members of the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet perform for college and community audiences throughout the area, in addition to balancing their duties of being university faculty and being the principles of their sections in the Wichita Symphony. The members - Frances Shelly, fluteg Linda Strommen, oboe, W. james jones, clarinetg Richard Beene, bassoong and Nicholas Smith, horn - feel that one of the major difficulties the group faces is trying to put together a program audiences can ap- preciate. 'Woodwind quintets have sort of a bad reputation because it's either all modern music or all very early music, Smith said. The quintet, because of its limited reper- toire, is faced with the challenge of finding music that is both interesting to listen to and accessible to an audience that may not be musically sophisticated, as may be the case with community concert audiences. 'I think they might be so overpowered that they don't know how to show it,' Shelly suggested. 'They might feel so distant and remote from us that they can only hear it and then go away. They don't think we're human and we want to hear some encouragementf' While college audiences will come backstage to congratulate the quintet or ask questions after a performance, Smith said, a community audience will 'just split.' 'Sometimes you can't tell,' Linda Strom- men countered. 'They may love it more in their hearts than we ever know.' The quintet may change gears for a perfor- mance to suit an audience. Richard Beene explained how on one trip when they had two concerts in two nights. 'We felt that when we played the concert the first night we played well, but the au- dience was pretty ho-hum, Beene said. 'But the next night, we tried a different approach. We let the people in the audience know more of our personalitiesf' He said Shelly stood up before the perfor- mance and casually talked to the audience, as if talking to a friend. 'I think that really helped the audience get next to what we were doing,' he said. A rapport is established with an audience so the group will be asked back for a return engagement. Beene said the more concerts the group contracts, the more money they can make, although there are less mundane reasons for being in the group. For the quintet to play well, Smith said, they must really enjoy the music. But with a relatively narrow repertoire the search is not always easy. 'It's just frustrating to go around in circles,' james jones said. 'Like a tempo of a certain piece. Somebody has a similar idea that another player did I0 years ago that didn't work. So somebody gets this idea and I think, 'Oh, OK, we'll try it againf 'I know, but we're all so different that we could execute it differently,' Strommen said. 'So I know the feeling but I think we need to be open.' 'It hasn't bothered me too much,' jones said, pausing before adding, 'in the last two yearsf' 'One time he fjonesl sat there and we went over and over a passage, Smith said. And I kept seeing him lifting up his pencil and fmaking a hash mark on his scorej. I said, 'What are you doing over there? I turn- ed over there and he's keeping track of how many times we were going over this one passagef' 'Well, the personnel in another quintet had rehearsed that same spot, jones said, 'so I was just curious.' The members of the quintet are rare, Smith said, in their dedication. The group shares a great respect for each other as players and are willing to listen to each other's ideas in a piece. Everyone in the quintet is an ensemble player, Smith said, willing to work cohesive- ly. Strommen added that she felt a need to play chamber music. 'It's the outlet I think we need.' Shelly added one other aspect beyond respect that makes the quintet work well. 'We really love each other,' she said amid the embarrassed laughter from the other members. She then added, more forcefully, 'We realh do.' Story by Peter Ingmire CLOCKWISE FROM TOP l,liF'I': Fran Shelly rehearses new music by Charles Ives. ll!7!84 The quintet warms up before its fall concert. l0!2!84 From left, Linda Strommen, James Jones, Richard Beene and Nicholas Smith preparing to go onstage. 10!2!84 Richard Beene and Linda Strom- men relax before their performance. 10!2!84 N,-,Mir at Mikado Set On Nontraditional Stage Opera Finds Voice In Tight Schedule During the final dress rehearsal for Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, Tom Sher- man was delivering his lines softly and could barely be heard when he sang. All that week he had been suffering from a sore throat. Sherman played Koko, the leading character in the operetta, and there was no backup for the part, unlike most of the other parts which were double cast. Backstage, cast members were putting on makeup to create a more oriental expres- sion to their faces, donning socks with a split at the big toe for sandals, and slipping into their tights. 'How come I never have to pee until after I'm in these things? asked one ex- asperated cast member. I have a few an- nouncements to make, said George Gibson, professor of opera at Wichita State University, as the rehearsal was about to get underway. 'Phe first is that Tom's voice is much better today. Aside from the questions about Sherman's voice, the four-day performance of Mikado presented last Oc- tober went well, Gibson said. The work is troubling because it requires the per- formers to deliver lines with a dramatic flair as well as sing. Let's face it, Gilbert and Sullivan is not that difficult musically,' Gibson said. 'But the style and delivery of the lines takes an awful lot of time. An awful lot of time is spent on dialogue in that type of work because often times you have singers that are afraid of dialogue. By that I mean they are us- ed to singing. And to get up there and speak on the stage is new to them unless they've had a lot of drama in school. But the style of that show is the most important thing.' Sherman admitted that it was different to have so- meone from the theatre department - where he has his background - come in and do opera. He said he felt he was accepted after the first couple of days. I never felt any negative feelings, Sherman said. 'There was no, 'What's he do- ing here?' just a period, say, of maybe two days of testing to see, musically, 'What has he got going for him?' and to see, with acting, 'What has he got going for him?' ' X . C Qi I ln., CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Kristine Dowler is wrapped backstage before dress rehearsal. l0!l8!84 My wrongs with vengeance shall be crowned, sings Katisha, played by Carol Ostlind. l0!l8!84 Kristine Dowler as Yum-Yum asks her lover, You're not going to kiss me before all these people? 10!18!84 l'm such a silly goose, admits Katisha to Ko-Ko, played by Tom Sherman. l0!l8!84 Ml am in point of fact a particularly haughty and exclusive person of pre-Adamite ancestoral descent, proclaims Bradley Lohrenz as Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else. l0!l8!84 Operas Difficulty Lies In Combining Arts The sets for Mikado were designed by jason Phillips, who works in San Francisco, through a special arrangement. Tom Blevins is the set director for the Opera Theatre. I-Ie met Phillips while they were working for Wichita Music Theatre. MTom asked him whether he'd be in- terested in designing the Mikado and jason said he would be,' Gibson said. 'So jason designed the show, sent me color renderings of the show from San Francisco. I OK'd them and then Tom Blevins built it from the picture and painted it. 'flason decided he wanted to do a com- pletely new designf' Gibson said. And it came off very, very wellf' But staging Mikado in a completely new setting posed some problems. Now I must admit his sets are beautifully visual - lots of color - but from a staging standpoint they're rather confiningf' Gibson said. By that I mean there's not an awful lot of area and dif- ferent entrances. There's maybe one or two or three you have to use all the time.' As in most operas, the setting is key in br- inging the performance together. Blocking is done off the set. By having an original set, the show becomes original. 'I don't like to have a borrowed set simply because we don't have the wherewithal to build it here,' Gibson said. 'I have never rented a set the entire time I've been here. In bringing together an opera, Gibson first makes lists of pros and cons months in ad- vance of rehearsing in order to examine everything from the strength of his singers to cost. 'Tm not one of those opera directors who says, 'Next fall I'm going to do so-and-so, regardlessf he said. 'I think that's wrong on the educational level. I try to do a show I have the resources for. Otherwise, if I don't, I feel my students don't get the chance to do what they should do. 'This is an educational institution, it is not a professional organization. They are here to do as much singing and performing as they possibly can, especially the upper level and graduate students in voice performancef' On the first day of the semester, the cast begins musical rehearsals. Next they learn their roles individually and then the cast members begin putting them together. It's just like a puzzle, really,' Gibson said. 'You take one thing at a time until all ingre- dients are prepared musically, and then you put it together. The progress is checked with the calendar against other performances scheduled. 'This last fall was a real SCSI of strength as far as scheduling was concerned because we had three actual productionsf' Gibson said. We had the Mikado, which was a full-length pro- duction which we worked on for about seven weeksf' That was followed by an invitation to per- form a Z0-minute work for the National Opera Association in Dallas about two weeks later. Then in early December, Amolzl ono' the Nzglzl Visitors was staged. Gibson said rehearsals often overlapped. 'As it came out, we did very, very well,' he said. l'But there were a few days there that I was sort of pushing the panic button because of the sheer amount of time. Gibson said he was amazed at the profes- sional opera stars who were able to balance their personal life with the stresses of travel- ing and performing. A top artist deserves such recognition, he said, because opera combines the aft of singing with dance, drama and the visual arts as well as possible special effects. So the reason why opera is so com- plicated is that it involves all facets of the arts, not one or two or three but all of them,' Gibson said. 'And in order to get all of those things congealed into one production, it 'takes an awful lot of time, effort and organizationf' Story by Peter lngmire Nlurphx CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Kristine Dowler as Gretel and Kimber- ly Eatman as Hansel practice their duet And lf the Stockings are in Holes. l!l4!85 Kristine Dowler and Kimberly Eatman watch George Gibson read through their parts during rehearsal. lfl4!8S Kimberly liatman cracks up after mak- ing a mistake during rehearsal. lf14!85 George Gibson plays piano for two sets of Hansels and Gretels. Both Heidi Herman and Dianna Seabourn, and Kimberly Eatman and Kristine Dowler practice at the same time. l!l4!85 WWA Iv aw fix, L? V? 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I've had so many wonderful, nice things happen to me. Sherman, a 21-year-old theatre major, has been in Z4 shows during his four years at Wichita State University. He said he has two favorite roles. One was Eugene Marchbanks in Candida and the other was Charley Wykeham in Wllerelr Charley? 'They were such special experiences, a time when I was learning a lot. I needed a couple of opportunities like that. I learned so much and concentrated so hard. I never got so much out of scripts before. I would love to do those two plays again and again if they let me. He hasn't always wanted to be an actor. The first thing I ever thought of being was a me- teorolo- s t . When I was five years old I was fas- cinated by the weather. I don't know why, not a lot of other kids were. It's really kind of strange because we'd be playing outside and we'd always run in to watch the sports. I had to run in earlier to watch the weatherf' Sherman didn't start acting until his junior year in high school. 'Since junior high, I have always liked theatre. I loved it. I loved the whole myth around theatre. I always went to WSU Summer Theatre. But I was a pretty shy person. I would have liked to have been involved, but I would have felt self- conscious. Finally, my interest was getting the better of me, and I had to take a course - Drama I. You got extra credit if you audi- tioned, whether you got in it or not.' He auditioned for The Good Doetor, and got a part. I was scared to death. Fear propelled me through that thing. I worked very, very hard on that show. What did it was Bob Washburn, my teacher, talked to me after the show, and said some really nice things about my progress and said he wanted to work with me again. So I auditioned for the next show and just sort of kept going. 'When I was a senior in high school, I thought theatre was the ultimate, it was so cool. And I thought, that's what I gotta do.' Now, his attitude has changed. 'I could be happy doing other things. What I'd really be happy doing is being the starting guard on the Boston Celtics. That'd be great, I love basketball with a passion. But they didn't draft me. I'm interested in so many things. That's my problem. It's very hard when your in- terests are so divided to try to come up with something that's going to make you a living through which you can hopefully contribute something to society. I think I could be hap- py doing theatre if I were to make a living. Theatre is the ultimate exercise for your mind. Theatre deals with everything: all knowledge, all thought, all feeling. He prefers comedy to drama. 'Comedy is nobler, it is more difficult to do comedy well. Theatre mirrors society, it explores and examines society, and it does question things that are wrong, and comedy can do that very effectively. There's something no- ble about making people feel good, and if you reinforce the comedy with some sort of statement, fine. I get much greater pleasure out of making people laugh than feel any other way, especially at a time in our history when there's not a lot to laugh about. These are grim, dangerous times, and if I can make people laugh, well then, that just makes me feel like a million bucks.' Sherman has a concern for people, and for the world in general. I think it's about time for the U.S. to wake up and realize we're citizens of the world.' He has a minor in Spanish, and it has given him a special concern for Latin America. 'I would like to do some am- bassadorial work. I feel like a lot of the Spanish-speaking countries are in bad shape right now and need a different kind of help than what our government is giving them. His concern for people as a whole extends to his personal relationships. 'I try to live by 'doing unto others' and 'you are your brother's keeper' and that sort of thing.' He attributes much of his development as a person to his family. 'I come from a really wonderful, loving family. They are so sup- portive. That's the reason I'm anything is because of my family.' In fact, the lack of family life is one major drawback Sherman sees in doing theatre. 'I want a family and kids,' he said. I don't know where family life fits in with theatre. You have to give up something to get something. That'll just have to be a decision of mine, but I don't know what I'm going to do. Right now, though, between going to classes, studying, and being in theatre, he doesn't have much time for anything. When he does have some spare time, he likes sports, both watching and participating. 'If I had to get a job right now, I would be a sports broadcaster. I love sports. I don't have any hobbies like crocheting or woodcarving. I watch the Weather Chan- nel. I love it. It's a good station. Story by Ty Morgan Photo by Madeline McCullough PORTRAIT Fighting 'Great Potential' Actress Expands on Bitch Roles Teri Mott decided to be an actress when she was five years old, but her interest was not theatre but ballet, which she studied un- til she was 13. 'I took several lessons a week, but I was terrible,' she said. 'My teacher said I should quit, but I loved to be on stage. 'I've always been a show-off or a tomboy. In ballet I always wanted to do something different to stand out - although I usually did anyway because my foot was crooked or my leg was bent. After an unauspicious beginning in dance, Mott became involved in theatre at East High School. Describing herself as a bad ac- tress at first, she finally got a part in the pro- duction of The Man Who Came To Dinner. 'I played the role of Maggie, a bitchy secretary, and it fit my personality. I'm a bitch and could get into the part. Following high school, Mott auditioned and won a Miller scholarship to Wichita State University. Although she continued to get better roles and refine her craft, her academic work began to slip. Mott said she became depressed, wanted to be in an acting trade school and quit going to her classes. After three years at WSU, she was academically dismissed. Mott stayed out of school for two semesters, a period she characterized as the most relaxed and pleasant of her life. 'I learned to live on my own and had time to think, she explained. 'But I missed educa- tion and wanted to get involved againf' Now Mott is almost philosophical about her academic pursuits, dividing her educa- tion into the success part and the failure part. 'Great potential has been the bane of my life - because people expect everything from you and when you fail, you disappoint them, she reflected. 'In retrospect, I had to hit bottom, so that I could see that I wanted an education and crawl my way up. If I hadn't failed school, I might be super egocentric. Now I expect nothing and what comes my way is a pleasant surprise.' Since returning to WSU, Mott played Mrs. Waters in Tom Jones and was also in the nine hour production of The Greeks. In the classical extravaganza, Mott played a Trojan princess, an Egyptian slave and was also in the Greek and Trojan chorus. 'Everyone in the cast got really close, like the families we portrayed, Mott said. 'We pulled it off - a massive effort to move the mountain. And the play had lots of sex and violence, what more could an audience ask for?' Another character Mott enjoyed playing was Georgie in Country Girl. 'I didn't agree with her ideals, but she was a beautiful character and I felt like I was that characterf' Mott added that she relishes doing shows in the Pit Theater because the audience is so close you can feel them breathe. To prepare for her roles, Mott first sits down and writes the vital statistics of the character - their age, ethnic and economic background and marital status. 'I think of what the character wants when she walks on stage and everything else rebounds off that.' But for Mott, acting is more than technical skills. 'It's an incredible feeling to take on an environment that's not your own. The au- dience is right there and if you make them laugh or gasp, it's like a spiritual experience - my church.' But acting can also have its pitfalls. When Mott was playing in Not .lust Another Prefqy Fare, there were four actresses on stage. While one would say her lines, the others would remain frozen until their next speech. After Mott said her lines and then froze, she felt something large climbing higher and higher up her leg. When her turn came to speak again, she stamped her leg for em- phasis and also hoped to knock off the offen- ding creature - but to no avail. Finally, when the scene was over, she found an extremely large cockroach was making its way up the back of her leg. 'Remaining motionless took more concen- tration than anything I've done,' she said, laughing. Besides acting, Mott has worked at several off-beat jobs. For three months she worked as a magician's assistant, traveling across the United States. This was certainly a job not without its benefits. 'Being cut in half is an experience everyone should have, she noted wryly. 'I learned about people, learned to think and cover fast for a trick that didn't work and also saw a lot of the countryf' Mott was once hired to play a French maid and carry champagne at a party, and, on oc- casion, has jumped out of a birthday cake dressed in a bikini. Last summer, Mott spent two and a half months taking classes at the Herbert Bergoff studio in New York City. The experience changed her life, she said. 'For the first time since I started acting, I had doubts that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to test my devotion by going to New York. I came home knowing I wanted to act, even though I saw lots of starving ac- tors. 'The thing that made me feel good about acting was that I looked different and could play all roles. I looked around class and saw rows of beautiful blonds with perfect bodies and realized in 10 years their careers would be over, but I won't be stuck in one role.' The lively actress is currently learning to sing, training to be a Dj on After Midnight and has also worked on the technical side of theatre - making props and costumes. Theatre people are said to be volatile and the witty and entertaining Mott seems to il- luminate the stereotype. 'My personality is suited for acting because I'm an exhibitionist and a manic- depressive. I can express being extremely happy or sad. She said her nature is beyond the word 'intensef' 'lt's more like frenetic, if not psychoticf' Story by Kate Wintrol Photo by Kenn Murphy Theatre Finally Stages Hip Comedy It took Richard Welsbacher, director of University Theatre, a long time before deciding to schedule the stage version of the Henry Fielding work, Tom Jones. 'About five or six years go, Jim Erickson over in the English department said that he'd run across a dramatization of Tom Jones and asked had I'd seen it,' Welsbacher said. 'I said no, but I'd like to. He gave it to me to read and I was kind of amused at it.' But not enough to put it in the theatre schedule. The play was written in the mid-70s after the film of the same play was produced. Welsbacher said he would pick it up and then put it aside again after Erickson would call. 'About every year he would call me and say, 'Listen, do you still have that copy of Tom Jones? I'd say, 'Yeah, I'll get it back to y0u,' and he'd say, 'No, that's OK, keep it.' ' Last spring, when the Shakespeare Royal Theatre produced Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby for stage, Welsbacher got intrigued with the idea of an open set where the cast wandered on the stage and changed sets themselves. He decided that Tom Jones would work in an open set. The play is a comical tale about a young man who is constantly being plagued by women who want-to ravish him. Welsbacher said he envisioned the play like a cartoon. 'Not a Mary Worth cartoon but a kind of car- toon approach to the story. 'We're not talking about a cartoon in the sense of making fun of, or burlesquing, but just, rather, the kind of bold strokes and ex- aggeration and kind of fun flatness of a car- toon.' Monica Vaughan, who played the stereotypical gossipy maid, said, 'Anytime you end up doing that flat of a comedy you're going to have charcterizationf' She added that the most fun part of the show was the costumes. 'It gave us a chance to showcase the costume people because we decided, or I decided, that I was going to use the open stage concept which meant that there wouldn't be any heavy scenery,' Welsbacher said. 'So we'd go with costume as the design elementf' Both the men and women wore wigs. 'A lot of men aren't used to wearing wigs and that was traumatic, Vaughan said. The women also wore corsets and panniers, a type of hoop skirt that bulges out on the sides, creating an oblong effect. Welsbacher said when the question was raised about whether to go with traditional hoop skirts or panniers, he had an answer. 'I said, right away, 'Panniers, because they're funnier,' he said. 'There's something inherently funny about them and you can do funnier things with themf' The size made them funny, he said, but not outlandish. Vaughan said, Their size depended on your rank in society so that the ladies of importance had huge ones - sometimes their hips would stick out maybe five, or six feet wide - whereas the servants had maybe four or five inches.' 'One of the girls went through the door and flipped them up and dropped them back down again,' Welsbacher said. But the size presented some staging pro- blems. 'That's why he had to use an open stage rather than have an enclosed set, Vaughan said, 'a realistic setting like a room. We did it in one large open space with a standup door and a cutout tree. It wasn't very realistic but it allowed us more room. If you have five women on stage, you have to have the room.' Welsbacher said there was one point when he realized the positioning for the per- formers was not going to work. 'I thought, 'Oh, my God. Oh, what have I done? I've got some blocking in there with three girls on one of those platforms and I don't see anyway they can do it.' Well, there's nothing I could do except hold my breath and wait until Sunday night. Vaughan said there is usually one major disaster per play, but Tom Jones went off well. She said other than having to avoid tripping on her dress, the only other complication was the amount of time spent getting into costume. 'We started putting on our costumes an hour and a half before the show. 'But it went well, nothing bad happened and the costumes were great. It was just fun. Story by Peter Ingmire 'I 1. w ft 1, , c P , . f . 4 i ' fl . ' 4 sv ' c v, ' P' 4 Jw L, 1 N1 f . . 9,1 R 5 6 I.: .yi W . . 'lx' V A ,, f -2, 12 ,1 Q S273 'W ff ' A v L . J xz M. A , , 1 'Tia '1' , W-Y' X 2 ,IA 5 f ' ba I1 gg' Wlif l X ' J 4 'N 1 , x V x 21 if 'F w 5. ef' 4 i X .Jul sm-f 5 ,sz ef' ' ff 13, :Q . me W wg 11.5, ,V 1 Q. Tedious Hours Go Into Lively Art The world would not end if there were no art, said Richard Welsbacher, but it would be colorless. Art, such as theatre, provides for different human needs but does not con- tribute to survival. So every time there is any discussion among the regents, school boards or trustees, theatre is one of the first arts to be deemed a frill. 'We are hanging out there naked because we don't turn out computer operators, we don't turn out engineers, inhalation therapists, all those people that make life richer and worth living, he said. A play takes about five weeks to stage in- cluding performance days. But before the first rehearsal is held, the director has spent much time in envisioning how the play will look. 'The first thing I do, fashion any director, some kind of a concept of a show, what it is about this particular and I think in some is get a hook on I'm going to emphasize show for this particular production, Welsbacher said. This helps him establish an idea before he talks with any of the set designers. 'So that when we start talking we're talking along some sort of a track instead of along wild generalitiesf' After the rehearsal schedule is settled, positioning the actors on stage begins. 'I do the blocking first, get that out of the way, get the damn mechanics out of the way,' Welsbacher said. 'Where you move, when you move, when you come in, when you go out.' 'Blocking is very tedious,' said Brian Gunter, a senior theatre major. 'It takes a lot of patience because it goes very slowly, hav- ing to write down movement, and you're literally being told where to move. 'lt's not a real creative thing. When you get into the working of it you want to come in with a lot of your own ideas, bring them into a rehearsal.' Gunter said rehearsals generally go in three phases, the first being blocking and reading through the play, which takes about a week or two. 'The second phase will be to learn the words, the blocking - get the script out of your hand a little bit. And in the last week and a half is polishing the little details and adding in the technical elements like the props and the lightsf' Welsbacher said it is at the final rehearsal stages when the play takes on new life, after having rehearsed it to death. fBy the time you get to that point, energy is beginning to lag, familiarity is breeding contempt. That frequently gives the last big adrenaline hype, when suddenly the kids get costumes and props.' 'A lot of times it seems like you rehearse a scene to death, a scene that is supposed to look like it's happening for the first time when you're watching it,' Gunter said. And by going over it and over it, often times you kill any kind of energy. It looks like a poised scene, all the life's gone out of it. And it doesn't take much when other things start to happen,' Gunter said, 'when suddenly you've got walls around you and you have a full orchestra rather than a rehear- sal piano, or a real prop. That really sparks it when all those things start coming in.' Welsbacher said the dress rehearsals are Crucial because that is when all the elements are brought together and seen whether they work together, which they sometimes don't. 'I can remember one time,' Welsbacher said, 'it was with Summer Theatre, luckily. But we brought in sets for Oklahoma and they didn't fit. Somebody had not measured the area right. Theatre operates on a tight budget, Welsbacher said, but the idea is to not let the audience see something cheap. Theatre peo- ple have an image, brought upon themselves, as always complaining about never having enough money, he said. 'And it's true, it's a very expensive opera- tion no matter how you look at it,' Welsbacher said, 'an extravagant operation in terms of time and money and material. There's just no other way to do it. 'What we hope in the last analysis is the same, I guess, as in any other performance - that the audience oughten to be aware of that. Those are your problems. You canit step outside the curtain, no matter how much you'd like to, and say, 'Hey, ladies and gentleman, I wish we'd have been able to build a bigger set but we can't.' Or step out and say, 'Boy, I wish the leading lady was better, but she isn't.' You can't do that. We're in the business of training people and if the show is finally not as good as it could have been if you had played it cozy. . .it seems to me you wouldn't be do- ing what educational theatre is supposed to do, and that's training studentsf' It's a hands-on opportunity,' Gunter said. You can read all the books, or read thousands of plays but if you're not doing them then all you've done is read a lot of books and plays. Here, by throwing yourself into plays one after the other, you're doing it, you're getting your body and everything in- volved. MWe're all still learning and you do everything you can get your hands on, he said. You keep trying and get as much varie- ty as you can because that is where learning comes from. Story by Peter Ingmire l 1 ,ff N FI W mtrul CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Property master Chris Dunn wat- ches rehearsal at the pin rail. 1!18!8S Working on an intense moment in the play, Troy Mays shouts at Sean Kassebaum while rehearsing Bertolt Brechfs 7b Iixwpfiwl and Ihr Ralf. 1!18!85 Less than a week before 77W limfptinn am! file Rule' opens, director Bela Kiralyfalvi, center, coaches from left to right, Janet Pritchard, Troy Mays, Charlie King, Sean Kassebaum and Susan Lyles. 1!l8!85 Mike Roark, the shop carpenter, works on the stage lights for a pro- duction. l!18f85 Elaborate Set Creates Magic Cn Stage University Theatre's production of The Smrerrow kept audiences spellbound with billowing smoke, an enchanted mirror, magical transformations and appearances, and eerie sounds. But although the special effects seemed to happen effortlessly in the performances, they weren't easy to ac- complish. Creating magic on stage presented a variety of uncommon problems for the cast, the crew, and especially the director, Audrey Needles. l'd always wanted to do The Scarecrow' Needles said, 'but I steered away from it for a long time because the technical effects are very difficult.' The play, written by Percy MacKay and first staged in 1909, takes place in colonial Massachusetts in the late 1600s. In Act l, Goody Rickby, a local blacksmith and sorceress, conspires with the devil, who's known as Dickon. He materializes out of Rickby's smoking furnace. To create the ef- fect, the large furnace was 'fueled' with a chemical smoke machine and colored lights. 'One night,' Needles recalled, 'we didn't know it, but there were some vents open and the air-flow pattern was wrong. The stage filled with smoke and within a few minutes no one on stage could be seen. Needles laughed about the incident. For- tunately, she added, the unintentional smoke screen occurred during a rehearsal, not a performance. An unusual prop, the skeleton of a scarecrow, was also a major element in the first act. It had to be constructed so that Dickon and Rickby could 'build' the skeleton on stage, beginning with a forged steel armature, a beet for the heart, bellows for the lungs, and a pumpkin for the head. 'You haven't any idea how many times the actors practiced putting the scarecrow together to get the timing fast enough so that it would go with the dialogue and not slow the scene down, Needles said. When the skeleton was completed, Dickon and Rickby dressed it in a man's clothing. With some subtle trickery involv- ing a curtain that briefly obscured the scarecrow from view, the inanimate figure was replaced by an actor wearing an identical costume. Then Dickon, satisfied with the final touches on his creation, commanded the scarecrow to come to life. Suddenly, to the audience's amazement, the figure began to make stiff movements. When it tried to walk, it fell, and the pum- pkin head broke away, revealing the head of a man. Switching the clothed skeleton for the ac- tor created a dramatic illusion. But it was a simple one compared to the effect needed for the 'mirror of truth,' a magical device designed to show the true character of anyone standing before it. It called for a reflective surface which, when lighted from behind, could reveal the image of an actor standing behind the mirror. After researching the problem, Arden Weaver, who designed the sets and lighting for the show, found a company that made a special mylar-like material perfect for the job. 'There are a lot of different products we use in theatre to create mirrors,' he said. 'In this particular case, though, we wanted an image to come through the mirror. The material we got worked like a two-way mir- ror. But the mirror itself didn't provide the magic. It was up to the actors to make the ef- fect convincing. The difficultyf' Needles said, 'was that there was a second actor behind the mirror who had to synchronize his movements with the one in front. That took a lot of rehear- sal. Besides the 'mirror of truth, Weaver's set design included special accommodations which made Dickon's appearances out of nowhere possible. 'Dickon was supposed to come through walls and through the mirror at certain times,' Needles said. 'That was tricky. The mirror was hinged into a set piece so that it would open and close. There was also a gap in the wall, which was not seen by the au- dience. He could slip in and out through that and it looked like he went through the wall.' Along with its special effects, the play re- quired a unique sound track which Paul Elwood composed using electronic music and the sounds of crows cawing. Although Needles found the technical ef- fects in The Scarecrow challenging and in- triguing, she said she particularly liked the message of the play. 'I think it's a positive play,' she said. lt's about good triumphing over evil, revenge not paying off, and redemption through love. The scarecrow throws off the hold of the devil at the end. He becomes a man through love.' vw Story by Cass Brunner CLOCKWISE FROM TOP l.lilfl': Rose Beilman as Rachel reveals her romantic intentions toward Lord Ravensbane. 1l!13!84 Brian Gunter as the devil, known in the play as Dickon, talks to the Scarecrow about the possibility of living. l1!13!84 Mike Roark as Lord Ravensbane was assembled from inanimate ob- jects and given life by Dickon as long as he kept his pipe lit. ll!l3!84 Justice and Mistress Merton, played by Greg White and Julia Gosney, check out Lord Ravensbane's credentials. l1f13!84 Kim Stiles plays Goody Rickby, a blacksmith and sorceress who is pleased that she conjured Lord Ravensbane from a scarecrow. ll!l3!84 PORTRAIT Promotion Of Playwright Gives Her New Chance To Write On 'I've always been fascinated in the theatre,' said Vivien Minshull-Ford. 'I used to live in London and I worked for televi- sion. One of the nice little perks was to get free tickets occasionally because I worked for the director of drama - they had free tickets all the time. 'Living in London, that's just the sort of thing you can't resist doing,' she said. 'And tickets were so cheap those times, even though my salary was very low then, it still wasn't a terrible outlay to get a moderately good set of seats in the theatre.' And so begins the story of a playwright. As early as age five, Minshull-Ford recognized her love for the cinema which became a love for the visual arts. But she didn't get much of a chance to go because at the time she lived in Eritrea - now part of Ethiopia - with her family. Her father was in the British army and the family moved often - she attended ll dif- ferent schools before going to college. When her father died in 1952, she returned to England to live. In 1958, her mother married her step- father, who was a professor at the University of Wichita. Minshull-Ford entered the university the next year but as yet was not planning on being a writer. After three years, she left to live in Lon- don, where she got a job with the television company that now is Thames Broadcasting. 'I suppose I must have showbiz tendencies. Minshull-Ford moved in with her aunt and grandmother, who refused to own a televi- sion set. But both she and her aunt were dy- ing to have one, she said. 'So, with my henchman, we went out and rented my grandmother one who'd said, 'No, won't have television. Ruins family life,' Minshull-Ford said. 'And she still has it. She watches tennis and you can't even telephone her during Wimbledonf' While in London, she would keep in touch with her mother and stepfather by sending them cassettes in the mail. Her stepfather, who was a writer, told her she had an ear for telling stories and should write. 'He really was the one who bullied me into writing, Minshull-Ford said. 'He was always encouraging, especially women. I know lots of women around town who are good writers that he encouraged - students of his. He tried to get my mother to write, too.' She moved back to Wichita in the early 1970s to finish her degree and get her master's degree. She entered the MFA pro- gram and began seriously developing her skills as a writer. She wrote short stories and some poetry but found she enjoyed writing about people and the humorous aspects of life. 'I like telling stories, Minshull-Ford said. 'And I like dealing with people, the sort of complications their lives get into which you really can't do with poetry. 'People are interesting. They don't have to be elaborated on very much to be made interesting. She enrolled in a play-writing class taught by Bela Kiralyfalvi and was told that by the end of the semester everyone will have writ- ten a full-length play. 'And I said, 'You must be jokingf She decided to write about something she saw in an English newspaper about English civil servants who retired to the warmth of Spain where they had spent two weeks vaca- tion. But the idyllic setting became a trap because they found their pension did not go far enough. She set her play in Portugal where she had visited and drew upon her ex- periences with the elderly couple who were her landlords in London. 'They weren't going to retire in Spain,' she said. 'In fact, they retired in jerseyf' She said she began by writing out everything she could to make her characters complete - their hobbies, their history, what experiences they might have had. 'Things that don't come out in the play at all. But that character was completely three- dimensional. That was before I ever wrote a line of dialogue. 'So when that character spoke, I didn't speak through that character. That character actually said the sort of thing he would say in that situation because I knew the character so well. As her idea developed, she knew she had the makings of something. 'And by the end of the semester, with a lot of overnight typ- ing sessions and paper all over my apartment and talking to myself constantly because I read my dialogue to myself to get the feel of it, I had done it. 'I was surprised I could do it, Minshull- Ford said. 'Well, I wasn't surprised I could do it. I was surprised I could do it in that short a timef' Her play, ASIMW q'Sunl1gl1t, was produced on stage in early April, 1983. 'It really was a magical experience. It didn't feel like anything that was a part of me. Ijust detach- ed myself and felt I was looking at a play.' That has encouraged her to keep writing. Her job as a lecturer at WSU had kept her from writing but since she was promoted to instructor, giving her more free time, she plans to write more. 'One can't call oneself a writer until one's pronounced one from outside, by publica- tion. And I really haven't sent a lot of stuff off probably, again, for the reason that I worry maybe it isn't good enough. I've had nice re- jection notices from places like Redbook. 'This is something I'm going to be doing so there will be more typing, more sending stiiff off in envelopes, some rejection slips - I hope something better.' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Kenn Murphy Performers' Gift Cf Dance Is Arduous Art The reason I've stayed in dance is that it uses the mind, body and heart, said dancer Tandy Beal, reflecting on her art form. Beal was guest artist at the Kansas Dance Festival, held last November at Wichita State University. She performed and choreographed three original pieces. Solo concerts have been Beal's trademark since 1977, when her dance partner backed out of a duet performance and Beal was forc- ed to give a solo recital. A solo performance is an extraordinarily intimate process,' she said. I may create 10 or 12 roles in an evening and I must move through all of those roles. Beal, who danced with the Nikolais Dance Theatre until 1971, now tours the world with her one-woman show, which includes more than 60 works. She completed choreographing life-size puppets for Frank Zappa's orchestral work, and is choreographing Cafzdide for the Baltimore Opera Company. Calling her inspiration a wild seed, Beal said it sometimes comes from a step, a musical note or from all different sources. Dance is always a challenge - I'm always interested in it - always new to me,' she ex- plained. It's a discovery process. One wants to keep working and keep discovering. After years of performing, Beal understands the difficulties of maintaining the moment. 'The dancer must be ultimately present in the moment - that's all there is, Beal said. 'Your performing hinges on how present you are. Dancing is like sports: if commented. She said she was inspired by her teacher, and first began to dance serious- ly in her teens. 'I was 14 when I realized my love of dance and 16 when I did it every day,' she said. 'But a lot of it was just fate. l've backed into the best major decisions of my life. Despite such devotion, Beal admits danc- ing does have its drawbacks. 'Dance can be an unhappy pursuit, she said. The money is terrible - it's always a strugglef' Beal also commented that dance is often confused with narcissism, because dancers are always trying to perfect their bodies. But despite the conflicts and lack of finan- cial rewards, Beal praises her chosen profes- sion. 'Dance is one of the most exalted art forms - it transcends what is real,' she said. Klt is a poetic moment that exists within the human formf' Lynda Hasan, a dance student and member of the Mid-America Dance Theatre, described her personal feelings toward dance. 'If I'm not dancing, it feels like someone took part of my heart - I have to dance, she said. Hasan performed in the Kansas Dance Festival and commented that the dedication and obsession doesn't stop when they leave the classroom. 'You hear the music in your head, dream the dance, become filled with it, she said. Although Hasan was at one time pursuing a degree in engineering for the financial security, she said dancing on stage is her greatest joy. 'My performance is the biggest and greatest gift I can give anyone, Hasan said. That's when I live the most, it's what I amf' Pat McCurry, another member of the Mid-America Dance Theatre, didn't begin dancing seriously until she was 24. She was a studio arts major, took a dance class, and decided to become a dance major. 'I had a sense of wanting to communicate with people without relying on words,' she said. 'I like the creative parts of dance. McCurry explained that dance uses both the mind and the body. 'Dance is taxing on the brain - you think constantly when dancing, she said. 'The dancers that use their brains are the most in- teresting to look at.' After a performance, McCurry com- mented that she often reflects on the recital. 'You only get two or three chances to do what you practiced all semester. Terri Henderson graduated with a degree in dance and now teaches modern dance and ballet at WSU. 'Before I danced, I was very shy,' she said. 'I took gymnastics in high school and that helped. But now l'm confident - I'm good at what I'm doing and I don't feel shy about do- ing it. Henderson also feels that communication is a vital part of dance. 'I want to make people think,' she ex- plained. That's what makes dance so ex- citing - if it communicates you're not present, you won't make the high jump. To achieve this goal, dancers spend countless hours practicing a piece. It's arduous work,' Beal something to an audience, then it is a success. Story By Kate Wintrol Kenn Murphy CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Kjersten Spencer and Kelli Debuhr rehearse a routine in the dance studio in the Heskett Center. 1f14!85 Linda Westby, a University of Kansas dancer, performs Egnft ar Dawn during the Kansas Dance Festival. 11118184 Kelli Debuhr stretches at the barre before rehearsal. 1!14!8S Susan Dale and Donna Muse, of KU, perform Dejianfe during the Kansas Dance Festival held in Miller Concert Hall. ll!18!84 PORTRAIT When Kjersten Spencer drove past the club Car- los and Wong's Westawont she said she felt it was somewhat tacky. 'When I saw they built that thing I said, 'I will never walk in there, never.' 'Don't ever say what you will never do.' Spencer, along with three other dan- cers, were performers at Carlos and Wong's private club and notorious flesh palace. Their act was like the dance troupe Solid Gold, wearing flashy, tight-fitting costumes and dancing to fast-paced jazz. Then the management decided it wanted a change. So the four were fired and strip- pers and mud wrestlers were brought in as entertainment. 'We asked them, mockingly, 'Do you want us to strip?' They said, 'Well, that's not a bad idea.' .'People have this image of a dancer in Wichita where they think, 'Oh, this is 'Lemon Tree' stuff,' and we say, 'No, we don't take our clothing off.' ' Because of the group's popularity and recognition they received performing there, Spencer said they managed to line up perfor- mance jobs with other clubs. But the image of being a dancer and a plant - someone to make sure the crowd is enjoying itself - does mean people try to take advantage of them. 'A lot of times we run across people who are thoroughly beveraged, who just don't reason. You tell them, 'Excuse me, I've got an important phone call,' and gracefully, elegantly walk away. There are times when their personal lives are intruded upon. Spencer said they will get calls at their homes, people will follow them in malls, or will come up to them in restaurants. 'Not to sing our praises, but we are not Avoiding Idea Of Never - Dancer Loses Job, Not Clothes unattractive, she said. 'Each of us has our outstanding characteristics which, put together, we are almost a bevy of beauties. 'But people need to remember we're human beings, we get aggravated and have bad days. There comes a time when we say, 'Enough is enough. No, you cannot take that article of my clothing. No, you can't take me home. No, you can't follow me home. No, I don't want you to call me. No, please take that gift back.' That poses the dilemma of building in the necessary protections that are sometimes needed to be a performer while maintaining what she called her joie de vivre. By nature she is sensitive and is easily hurt, she said, which can be a problem as a performer. 'That's why I kind of backed away from it and thought I can't do this because I'm too sensitive. The older I get the more sensitive I get. I'm not a selfish persong I'm not one of those, 'Look out for number one.' ' But she has had to learn how to adapt and not let people walk over her. 'It's like, 'I real- ly want to perform therefore I've got to learn how to be nasty.' That hurts me deeply because I'm not a nasty person. But I bleed when I get cut and I don't like to get cut. I get to the point where I think, 'No, I'm not going to let you hurt me.' Spencer attended an accelerated elemen- tary school which developed her mentally but left her unprepared socially and open to attack from other students. 'There was an organization called the 8-Xs which was a group of probably Z5 girls who decided they didn't like me,' she said. 'They would regularly, like every day, send me hate mail. They went through the trouble of taking magazines and blank typing paper, pasting on letters that were cut out, reading, 'We don't like you. Yes, you're beautiful but not for long. We're going to stab you. We're going to kill you.' ' She went through school and had no friends. She cried often, sought support from her family and didn't go to school a lot. She began developing defense mechanisms dur- ing this period by relying on intuition for her judgment. 'I think with my heart most of the time and not so much with my mind. She petitioned the Board of Education to take her GED and go to college but was denied. Her sophomore year in high school she entered Wichita State University as a guest student. So from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. she went to Heights High School and then took classes at WSU until 10 p.m. 'College was much better. My first semester I had so many friends I didn't know what to do. There were so many people who talked. to me. During her senior year, she took her GED and left. Her family is one of her big- gest support systems still, but having a mother on faculty, Lavona Spencer, means her instructors expect genius from her. One of her instructor's had a birthday par- ty which her mom attended. The men and women faculty broke up into teams to play Trivial Pursuit, and the women won handily, led by her mom. She said she knew she would hear about it from her instructor the next class meeting. 'She came in saying, 'Your mom beat these guys. It was so greatl' And from that point on I thought, 'I'm never going to have another moment's rest in this class.' She wants to live and work in Europe as a performer, but plans to eventually get her master's and become a counselor like her mother. 'I want to perform while I'm young and get it out of my system. I don't want to have regrets. I like reaping the benefits of being a performer but all of my needs are not met. I don't want fame and fortune, to be a star. I just want to perform and maybe get good money for what I do because what I do is not that easyf' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough on S reve Rappin' On The Live Side Cf Hillside We may look wired, although we're tired - A sna of the shutter, a ain we're ins ired. U P U g P It's the action, the motion, the beat of our hearts, The click of the camera, we move our parts You're not my lover, you're not my wife You're just another dancer, a part of my life We came here together so we could get lost, Forgettin' the myth of man as the Boss We're not real pretty, we're not real tame Dancin' like this is art real, art ame . . - p . p gf 1 lt's the timin' and the rhymin' that makes it hypnotizin' It's the rh thm and the roll that takes control Y We practice and work for hours at a time So you can have your beat and I can have mine On the live side of Hillside it ain't plush But the rhythm of life gives us a rush Now black, now white, what a delight In the same neighborhood, struggle with the same plight It's a shame we don't party, it's a shame we don't live It's a shame we don't know or learn how to give The live side of Hillside, thereis pomp and circumstance, For you movers and you shakers, life is just a dance The studio is good, you know, for movin' and sweat: We dance against time, our only threat. J 1 Bondin' and respondinl to life - so what's new? Givin' and receivin', preventin' the blues. Oh yes, background, the color and the sound, One in the same - part of the game. Now, there's no moral, no emotional tag, Life is just a bitch and we're all on the rag. With each up and down, the highs and the lows, Poppin' our fingers, strikin' a pose. We're so blinded, yet we're so true - Our loyalties lie with a me and a you. The young and the single, the ready to mingle, The first impression, that makes the body tingle. Now the rap ainit dancin', or politics, It's just the scam of life and all its tricks. On the live side of Hillside, we quiver and shake, Lookin' to the future, and our big break. With a pop and flash, to make these photos, Smile for the birdie. Damn! The shutter froze. So keep on wackin', don't loose that glow. Strive for success, but don't lose life's flow. Hip, hop. Snap and pop. This is a new kind of bop - Without a heartbeat's rhythm, life would stop. We live, eat and breathe, so we will be strong On the live side of Hillside, from dusk to dawn. - . Rap by Kevin Spencer -mm N ,L a L I 3 w M '-1 f ., my ' n Sf f 4 . ,sf ggigl. W ,. H , ,,., uw Q- w. v W, 1 Reunion Offers Chance to Share MFA Program Celebrates Tenth Year When the Master of Fine Arts program for creative writing was founded at Wichita State University, there were only 11 other programs nationwide. This past year marks the tenth anniversary of the program, still the only one in the state, and the number of MFA programs in the nation has risen to 30. What makes WSU's program unique is its emphasis on academics, said Anita Skeen, associate professor of English. Like most schools, the degree is modeled after the Iowa's Writers Workshop, but the stress on academics gives a broader experience. 'What is valuable to me is the creative pro- cess,' Skeen said. 'So not only do they have workshops to develop skills as a writer, they are also writing about experiences. They are having to think about their role with other people in the world. About 95 people attended the anniversary celebration. During the afternoon, a panel discussion was held on the values and benefits of an MFA degree. Skeen said all six people on the panel said they were glad they had gotten an MFA and would not hesitate to do it again. 'They all felt that they received a good education and that the program had broadened their horizons, she said. There was a discussion on job prospects available with the degree. Two people on the panel had jobs that actually related to their degree, Skeen said, but the others felt that the experienced they gained through the course of the MFA program helped them in the jobs they currently had. The emphasis on academics helped prepare them to think critically and creatively. 'In terms of the creative process, one of the best times l'rn able to think is when I'm trying to work through a problem as a writer,' she said. The success of the program over the years is due mainly to the commitment of the faculty. All are good teachers and good writers,' Skeen said. They are sensitive people who really care about students. They spend time with them and push the students to work to the best of their capabilities. There were several reasons for having the reunion. One was advertising: The depart- ment wanted to show other schools in the nation that WSU's program was hale and hearty, Skeen said. 'Another reason was a genuine interest in having people come back and tell us what we'd done to help them, she said. It also gave people who have been af- filiated with the program over the years, either as students or writers-in-residence, a E chance to get together with the people whose work they have seen appear in literary magazines and share experiences, Skeen said. Reunions are family affairsf' she said, 'get-togethers with people with whom you have the same kind of bonds. This gave everyone a chance to share. The program has kept the number of its master's candidates small. Some programs, like Iowa's, have grown as large as 50 people in one workshop. WSU generally keeps its number of students to 10. 'We try to stress the teacherfstudent rela- tionships,' Skeen said. One of the things we felt was very important is the one-to-one contact. Skeen said she has found people in the humanities who still value learning. Many students going through college now in other disciplines look upon their degree as something they must suffer through in order to get a job. While not everyone has tound work as a writer, an editor or a teacher, almost everyone still writes on their own, a sign that the program did make them disciplined writers. Skeen said that writing as a skill is becoming more valued both on an economic level as well as a cultural level. You don't have a culture if you don't have literature, she said. 'You may have a socie- ty, but you don't have a culture. 'We used to think of computer wizards as magic, but no more. lt's the writers. Maybe weire coming full circle and the only people who will be in power are those with a com- mand of languagef' Story by Peter lngmire .ff CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Vivien Minshull-Ford attends the 10th-year anniversary. l1!17!8-l Anita Skeen and Jeanine Hathaway share a tale. llfl7f84 About 95 people attended the reu- nion. llfl7f84 Chicago poet Lisel Mueller won the American Book award while poet- in-residence at WSU. ll!l7f'84 Bruce Cutler shows the MFA poster designed for the reunion. llfl7f84 A Taste Of Olde England Tradition Marks Renaissance Feast 'Come on gang, we've got a lot of hours and time spent on this and we've done a lot of work, so now's the time to enjoy itl' said H.C. Boughton. 'If you can't enjoy it then it's all worthlessf' Boughton was helping to prepare the Wichita State University madrigal and chamber singers for the Seventh Annual -Renaissance Feast, a re-enactment of English court life in a king's palace. The traditions important throughout the period appeared that evening, beginning with a wassail - a hot, spicy drink used to toast one's good will and health - served to the king's guests. Directly following was the processional by the lords and ladies, played by the madrigals, and the servants, the chamber singers, sing- ing a welcome. Boughton, director of the madrigals, said that each year he picks out various Renaissance-style pieces, rotating them every three or four years. Some of last year's selections proved to be more difficult, said Dorsey Burgess, such as a couple of Bach fugues. But with at least three hours of rehearsal a week, all went well under Boughton's and Alan I-leld's direction. Over the years the program has changed little. 'I'm a little resistant to change. If it's something successful, why change it?' said Boughton, who has been in charge of overseeing the production over the years. 'Good entertainment and good food pull people back each year even though it's basically the same. New crowds come each year because it's a regal type of elegant entertainmentf' Various dishes were ushered to the head table by the Lord Steward, Mike Madecky, and sampled by the king to warrant good taste. Then, one by one, all seven courses were served. The main course consisted of roast beef, potatoes, vegetables and a side-order of cranberry relish. The feast portion of the evening went pretty much as planned. One night, however, the Lord Steward saturated the flaming pudding with too much alcohol. When it kept roaring back to life he finally threw a towel over it to extinguish it. The concert portion of the evening began after the feasting when people pushed back from their chairs to take a breather from their indulgence. Wine wenches Robin Allen and Kim Eatman strolled between tables, flirting with the men and flaunting their wares. Occasionally one would cry out, 'King, this man touched by skirtl' and the offending person was put into the stockade. Boughton said most people don't mind being singled out and play along well, 'although I'm not sure I would. Along with the wine wenches, there was also singing. The chorus would well up suddenly whenever one of the nobility would command it. ' This year, Boughton introduced a new piece which involved both singers and dancers. A guitar spotlight was also added, featuring guitar instructor Tom Harder. In order to cut back some on the length of the program, there were no strolling minstrels or court magician. 'Some people thought three hours was a bit too long in the past, he said. 'l'd rather have people wanting more at the end of the program than thinking it was too long. Although the singing, juggling, music and dancing helped create the Renaissance spirit, a large part of the success of the program depended on some of the performers going out and mingling with the audience. 'When you can get out and actually talk to the people, you may be putting on a small show, Dorsey Burgess said, 'but you're getting that connection with them, and they're more relaxed with you if you come out and talk to them. 'Lots of people are interested in just hearing someone speak the cockney accent as well as proper British accent, which is very in- teresting to listen to,' he said. 'You can catch their attention with it and then cause a little trouble with it! 'The audience enjoys the evening much more, he said. 'It's a lot of fun for me, and if we can get everyone to doing that, then the peo- ple really enjoy their time. The role is pretty much your own character that you just kind of inventf' Burgess said that because the madrigals sit at a great table for the feast, this sets up a barrier with the audience. The chamber singers who act as servers mix with the crowd, which means the madrigals have a slight disadvantage, Burgess said. 'One year you have practice as servers and then the next year you're already aware of what needs to be done for the next performance and you can develop your character more, he said. 'Since the servers are the ones closest with the people, if they have a chance to do it more than one year then they could have more involvement with the people. That personal involvement grasped during the feast helped make the evening. And after the lords and ladies left the court, strolling to the recessional sung by the chamber singers, accompanied by hand bells, the audience was dismissed to go home to their 20th century homes, taking with them the spirit of the English Renaissance. Story by Diane White T? 'F photos by Kenn Mur CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Lois Harder and Brian Stranghoner play the Ladye and Lorde of the Manor. l2!7!84 Lorde Chamberlaine, Joel Knapp reads a proclamation on table eti- quette at the feast. 1Z!7!84 The Madrigal Lordes and Ladyes feast by candlelight while Chamber Ladyes replenish their food and drink, 12!7!84 Guitarist Tom Harder provides some of the entertainment during the feast. l2!7f84 Scheming wine wench Robin Allen eyes whom to flirt with next. l2f7!84 PORTRAIT Events Lead Poet To Journey Through Invented Past Poet Anita Skeen began writing 'through a series of fIukes. When she left her home in Big Chimney, W.Va., to go to college, she planned to ma- jor in physical education and become a basketball coach. But she didn't get along with the two women faculty members in her department. She got a bachelor's degree in education and planned to teach English, speech and journalism. But student teaching at a Princeton, W.Va., high school changed her mind. 'I didn't like collecting milk money, patrolling the lunchroom,' she said. 'I didn't want to spend my life babysitting. I realized I'd spent four years preparing for something I didn't want to do.' She decided to go to graduate school and chose Bowling Green State University in Ohio for a PhD in Victorian literature. One semester she was a course short of the minimum required to keep her assistantship. Only one course was open - creative writing. Her creative writing experience was, at that time, limited to jingles for homecoming she had written in her sorority during her undergraduate days. 'They always rhymed and were in iambic pentameterf' In the graduate class, she said, 'I discovered soon that I was drowning. But she had a professor who worked with her and gave an incomplete until she caught up. While catching up, she discovered that she liked poetry so much that, after com- pleting her master's she also completed an MFA in creative writing. Skeen has published in literary magazines and anthologies, and has taught a number of courses including introduction to creative writing, her favorite. 'Graduate students already know they're going to be poets. But to tell someone they're good and see their reaction - there's not anything more exciting. She teaches poetry similar to the way she would coach basketball. 'The first time you take someone to the foul line you don't ex- pect them to get 10 out of 10 shots. A good coach adds information each time about what they're supposed to do. 'In class I try to break down the traditional forms. I have them work on metaphors, sound, line breaks. . .then I have them put together a good poem using those thingsf' She focuses on teaching students to use language and to develop their own percep- tions of the world. While the first isn't dif- ficult, she said, the second is because students are self-conscious. That's part of the reason she works as a poet in the schools a few weeks each year. Kids are refreshing. 'They haven't been taught to be afraid of what they say. Sometimes they combine perceptions most of us wouldn't utter out loud.' Second graders are the best, she said, themselves. because they want to please Older children want to please the teacher, by fifth grade, they want to please their friends. Skeen uses visual and craft activities to spur their imaginations. For instance, she said, 'I tell them to wear shoes different from anyone else's.' One kid wore porcupine feet - paper plates with toothpicks glued on. Others have drawn faces on white tube socks or decorated shoeboxes. 'Being a poet in the schools satisfies the part of me that's still a kid,' Skeen said. 'I really do like to play. I have a friend who says she taught me how to work and I taught her how to play. I'm not sure I learned how to workf' In spring, 1982, she decided to have a group of fourth graders write about things with a sense of community. Students drew house plans on individual lots and brought toy vehicles from home, including cars, a hot air balloon, and a dinosaur. They wrote letter poems about what they could see from their front yards. They also went on a trip and wrote about what happen- ed. One day a bridge built from pieces of a broken desk collapsed when the dinosaur and another,vehicle were crossing it. 'I said, 'Quick, everyone, to the scene of the acci- dent.' They all got their vehicles and drove to it and wrote about what they saw.' She said she had as much fun as the kids. 'At 38, I could still draw my house and village and drive my little car around. Three years ago, during a sabbatical, Skeen, with her two beagles, drove her van around the country. 'Originally I had planned to do a sort of Rand McNally Atlas of poetry, one poem from each state, but I found I was writing about what was happening about women who lived in each regionf' The collection, titled Earl: Hana'AMap, is about relationships among women - from a shared moment between a woman and the dental hygienist cleaning her teeth to mother-daughter relationships. Skeen said she planned to work during a leave in the spring on finding a publisher for the collection and another collection that she had almost finished, Fumishings. The poems have titles like 'Bathtubf 'Toilet' and 'Refrigeratorf' 'The character is a woman living alone raising her children. The objects are devices that trigger responses. . .serve as vehicles to get into her emotional processes. For in- stance, warm water in the shower reminds her of touching. Because of her interest in autobiography, Skeen has taught workshops around the country to show people they have something to say about their own lives. This interest has also given her ideas for poems, she said, quoting from poet Lisel Mueller: ' 'The story of our life becomes our life.' I wonder how many times I've told the story of my past and how all the stories were different. 'One time a student called up her grand- mother and asked what she was like when she was little. Her grandmother said, 'I don't know. I was living my own life.' We always think people can tell us what we were like but we're all busy living our own lives. 'We make up our past as we go along - what matters is what I think of the past I've inventedf' Story by Nancy Francoeur Photo by Kenn Murphy PORTRAIT Drumming Up Attention, Professor Pushes Creative Boundaries ,I.C. Combs remembers being scared right before the world premiere of War Games for Pmfessiorzal Wrestlers and Pereussion Orrllestra, composed by Walter Mays. The work was improvisational, mixing sounds from in- struments like a jack hammer and rubber balloon with the action in the arena. For the performance, a wrestling ring had been set up on stage. Backstage the wrestlers were pacing like caged animals, Combs said. The work is like a freight train coming out of a fireplace, it's so surrealistic.' Right before the piece began, he looked into the faces of his students and had a moment of reckoning. 'All of a sudden I had a flashback, a few misgivings, he said. 'Did I make a mistake? Have I gone too far? Have I cross- ed over that fine line between sanity and in- sanity? And have I pretty much kissed this job goodbye with one downbeat?' ' He looked into his students' faces again and could see them thinking, 'Let's go for itl' and gave the downbeat. When the work ended, there was a split-second of silence, which Combs said seemed like an eternity, and the auditorium erupted into applause. Combs, professor of music performance in percussion at Wichita State University, said part of the creative process involves taking on completely new challenges. His job allows him the freedom for that, a freedom he doubts he could get anywhere else. 'When I mention to other percussion teachers at other universities some of the things that we've done, they shake their heads in disbelief that, first of all, the ad- ministration would allow it. Combs said there is a regional prejudice that makes people believe that, for anything of worth to happen, it has to take place in New York or Los Angeles or another big ci- ty. 'But frankly, the publicity that we've received here as a department through some of the works and ideas we present have made it to those places anyway. I don't have to scuffle to find an audience because we have built an audience here, and it's a very excited audience. Combs said he worked to create the freedom he enjoys. I, more or less, did what I thought was the right thing and discovered that no one was really going to stop me as long as I was reasonably successful. I never really failed at these ventures because I never entertained the idea of failing. Maybe in retrospect, it might not have been a bad idea to have considered what might have happened had it failedf' His two most memorable and perhaps most successful works were collaborative ef- forts with Walter Mays, professor of com- position and musicology at WSU. There was War Games - 'Walter lives in fear that that's the only piece he'll be remembered for, but he really is proud of it' - and Pinball Metamorphosis, jointly composed by them. The work was suggested in part to Combs by another faculty member who mentioned the sounds coming from the arcade in the Campus Activities Center, knowing Combs enjoyed going off on tangents. Combs went over to listen and heard potential. 'It was a bit like hearing a Charles Ives piece for the first time during rehearsal. Mays was dragged into the project when Combs began telling the press about the idea. It makes him mad every time I do it, but once I've committed him to paper and the press he feels an obligation. The story is about a respectable college professor who becomes obsessed with play- ing pinball machines until the machines take over his psyche. Combs said the project, which involved bringing together film, a singer, piano, percussion orchestra and a choir of pinball machines, preoccupied him totally. They each wrote half the work and merg- ed the two parts. 'It sort of has ajames Bond feel at the beginning, which is totally unlike Walter, but that is how he heard it.' The piece was only performed for the per- cussion ensemble concerts in 1980. Combs said that the process of creation and the in- itial performance generate the most excite- ment for him. 'And when the piece was finished, it was like I dismantled it and burn- ed the parts. It was like being in Java and creating an enormous shrine out of flowers and bacon rinds, which they do, and when the festival was over they burn them. That was the way I felt with the pinball piece. While he and Mays are not afraid to push through new ideas, he said, not everyone seems to understand them. War Games was openly laughed at, he said. He heard about a man at Drake University who tried to stage the work, but the athletic department ob- jected, saying it was a slam against athletics. When talking with a representative of Belwin Mills, which copyrights all of Mays' works, the man said he thought the work was a put- on. A man at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., wanted to perform Phlball Metamorphosis, and Combs asked him why. 'Strangest answer: he said his brother was a pinball distributor in the Rochester area and he thought doing it would be good for his business. I thought, 'Well, whatever motivates you.' ' Combs said that as long as there is a cons- tant fire he will keep at his job. 'I live for the idea that Walter and I have another piece in us. The energy to make the pinball piece was astounding and exhausting, but I think there's another piece. He has in mind a work that brings together news teletypes with a percussion orchestra and chorus. The teletypes would have a television camera trained on them so the audience could read what comes across the wire. 'So who knows? On any given night, we might be performing and some in- credible piece of news might flash across the screen. Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough Duo's Familiarity Breeds Compositions When percussionists David Friedman and Dave Samuels I took the stage Halloween night for a concert in Miller Concert Hall, Duerksen Fine Arts Center, they were forced to show their improvisational skills immediately. The vibraphone on stage which Samuels was to play would not work. Good evening, Friedman said with the air of a trained emcee skilled at killing time. How're y'all this evening? Samuels, meanwhile, was dig- ging around on one side of the vibes, trying to reconnect a belt which had slipped off. just when it looked as if he had it repaired. . the belt broke which left him holding a worthless cord. Good evening, Friedman rejoined to the new development. How are you this even- ing?' Samuels and Friedman finally managed to locate a new belt, put it on, and were ready to play. Samuels and Friedman were part of a con- cert arranged by the Pan America Steel Or- chestra and Hands Down. With the help of outside funding, the two came in for a dry run of a concert they were scheduled to give the next day in Ann Arbor, Mich., for the Percussive Arts Society. They have been performing together as Double Image for almost lO years. The music stays fresh, Samuels said, because of their years together which has helped create an intuitive musical bond between them. Part of the excitement is not only the sound that's taking place but the interaction,' Samuels said. It's like watching two actors on stage in a very intimate scenef' The two play 'spontaneous compositions' - music that is improvised from their knowledge of each other and their musical experiences. j.C. Combs, professor of musical performance, who helped arrange to bring them to Wichita State University, said they are willing to take chances which takes incredible self-assuredness. 'You have to know you are on the right track,' Combs said. Friedman said they try not to have a preconceived idea of what a piece will sound like when they start. That's what makes the pieces exciting, different every time you play them. We have certain pieces that are com- posed with small sections for im- provisation. But we try more and more to play spontaneous im- provisations. It makes it more interesting for us. I think it makes it interesting for the au- dience, as well. It gives the au- dience a feeling of the processf During the concert, their works lasted up to I5 to Z0 minutes and sounded complete even though they were unscored. They walked around during a work, traded and shared places at an instrument, and sought new sounds to bring in such as striking the side of the which blended gracefully with the direction they were heading in at the time. Combs said they have helped his patience because they develop musical ideas more slowly. The audience has to listen more carefully as opposed to watching a rapid, spectacular program. They possess showmanship and are entertaining, Combs said, but it is more mysterious. They are the type of role models I like to see students exposed to,' Combs said. I think the fact that they are incredibly talented artists willing to perform and take chances puts them in the avant-gardef' marin ba Story by Peter Ingmire CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIG! l'I': Percussionist Dave Samuels uses the ends of his mallets to drum on the side ofthe vibraphone. 10!31!84 David Friedman, left, and Dave Samuels, right, listen to the direction ofthe music during one spontaneous composition. 10!31!84 Dave Samuels experiments with the side ofthe marimba. 10!31!84 During a well played passage, David Friedman shows his feelings regar- ding the music. 10f31!84 Steel Drummer Pushes 'Undiluted' Pans 'This is like a dream I used to have back when I was a kid, said Andy Narell. 'When I was messing around on the pans, I always wanted to go around to places playing and teaching - like a guest professor. Last February Narell was in Wichita for a series of concerts, and to assist steel drum students at Wichita State University - his specialty. He was on the last leg of a tour of midwestern universities which have steel drum programs. Through his friend- ship with j.C. Combs, professor of percussion and music performance, and Gary Gibson, graduate student in music, Narell made his thirrl visit to WSU for a series of concerts. Besides which, they paid me. He played seven concerts in different parts of the city, including one at the Campus Activities Center with Gibson's group, Pan America Steel Orchestra. Over the years, Narell has gained national recognition as a performer and composerlar- ranger for steel drums. He began playing them while growing up in New York City. His father, a social worker, heard a steel band from Antigua playing in New York, and decided to start a center where kids could learn to play steel drums. Narell learned from clients of his father from the Carib- bean, including Ellie Mannette who has made drums for Narell. Narell is a best known as a performer, although he said he is excited about helping the development of steel drum programs, and enjoys teaching. He has released three albums to date, and has formed his own recording label, Hip Pocket. At the time, it was a decision between sit- ting on my ass waiting for a record deal or going at it myself. The record business is kind of a rough business, but now I've got kind of a toehold in it.' In the past year, he said his company has rounded the corner and is starting to put out more albums by dif- ferent artists. Steel drums were developed in the Carib- bean during the 19405 when many of the islands were used as ports-of-call for refuel- ing. The people there discovered that the 55-gallon oil drums, when empty, could be made into instruments by heating the lids and hammering out raised sections. The need for the people to express themselves musically was so strong that even when music was banned on some islands for political reasons, they continued to make in- struments out of whatever was handy. That need has led to increased musical sophistication by the steel orchestras over the years. Narell said he is suprised at how long it has taken Caribbean and Latin American music to become as popular in the United States as it has. 'But it's finally starting to happenf' But he said it is often filtered through other groups first. Reggae, he said, was heard by au- diences listening to The Police before hear- ing it from Bob Marley and The Wailers. Part of the difficulty, he said, was with the complexity of the music - Americans have enjoyed a diluted form of calypso like what Harry Belafonte has popularized. It takes a while because we come from a culture that is really not very worldly in the sense of knowing the music that is going on out there in other parts of the world.' When he began performing professionally, he was looked upon more as a novelty act than as a serious musician. 'But then I decid- ed I was not going to play in supermarkets anymore. 'Before that I was young, I hadn't for- mulated my stance. People saw that change as arrogant, but there comes a certain point where you've got to walk over the line and get away from being a novelty. I was ready to try to do something in such a way that it's go- ing to be treated like everyone else's work was treated. 'It was a difficult transition to make. But then I could say, Tm an artist,' and not have to capitalize the 'a' in artist - after I got a few record albums completed. I like being in a kind of business where I can make a good living and still do my own thing.' Story by Peter Ingmire phot CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Andy Narell performs with the Pan America Steel Orchestra in the CAC. 2119185 The pans travel under the Hip Pocket label. 2!19!85 Professor J.C. Combs watches Narell straighten out some chord problems for students Matt Brittain and Mike Harris. 2f19!85 Curious members of Bread and Books take a closer look at Narell's drums after a concert at the Wichita Public Library. 2f20f85 Unique Pair Mixes Musical Styles When Hot Shandy played Nov. 6 at the Campus Activities Center Ballroom, the at- mosphere was reminiscent of an era two decades earlier. The receptive audience was a mixture of students and older local residents. But the two musicians did not play protest songs from the 1960s, instead, they performed a mix of styles including moun- tain folk tunes, Irish ballads, swing numbers and original melodies. 'Folk music is not subject to fads,' said jim Magill. 'It is the stuff that people liked and passed on.' Magill first became aquainted with Rick Bouley at Chapel Hill, N.C., where Magill was a graduate student in anthropology University of North Carolina and Bouley owned a book store. They first played together at a party in 1979 and Magill decid- ed it was time to change careers. I decided I didn't want to spend half of my life reading, Magill said. ul knew a lot of book stuff, but I couldn't change my oil. From their rather humble beginnings as street musicians appearing at Mallory Square in Key West, Fla., Hot Shandy graduated to clubs. Three years ago they began to play the National Association for Campus Ac- tivities circut. They now perform at 80 to 100 schools a year. The only negative thing about traveling is that it keeps me away from the people I care about, Magill explained. Magill and Bouley came from widely varied backgrounds. Bouley grew up in Sax- apahow, N.C., one of 11 children. By the time he was 12 he was performing regularly at the Seventh Street Baptist Church. Soon he was dividing his time between the moon- shiners in the hills and the Baptist congrega- tion. At 17 he left town with a local Bible salesman who was reputed to be flim-flam artist. Magill said because he traveled extensive- ly while growing up - his father was in the Air Force - music became his center. He sang in the choir as a child and has been playing guitar since he was 15. Together they have recorded two albums, Paradise Ain? Cheap and Americak Danaing Again. They hope to play more festivals, such as the Bluegrass Festival in Winfield and eventually play mainstream folk clubs in Chicago and New York. They also par- ticipate each year in the annual Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, Fla. Although Hot Shandy mixes traditional mountain music, Irish songs and original numbers, their stage show is up-ICmpO, creating a party atmosphere. Between songs, they sprinkle in witty chatter and jokes. We only do about two pretty songs a night, Magill said laughing. We don't do heavy songs that people have to ponderf' Another part of their repertoire is Irish music. Folk musician Mike Cross introduc- ed the duo to this style. 'Irish music is the only form of music I don't get tired of listening to, Magill explain- ed, adding that both his mother and father were of Irish ancestry. 'There is a simplicity that gets to the heart of things.' All Irish tunes have a simple melody, Magill said, but what each musician adds to the tune makes it a challenge to play. A musician puts his stamp on an Irish tune by adding his own ornamentf' he said. Plus, the lyrics of Irish songs will break your heart, Magill commented. Besides such themes as drinking and politics, they often deal with unrequited love. Their songs seem to say that, within all beauty is pain,' he said. Story by Kate Wintrol CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Jim Magill, right, and Rick Bouley, left, break into the kazoo solo, an in- trinsic portion of their act. 1l!6!8-4 Rick Bouley shows his flat-picking technique during u bluegrass number. ll!6!84 The duo Hot Shandy wear their for- mal on-the-road attire. ll!6!84 Brown Brings Truth To 'American Music' 'I feel I'm a minister, a preacher of music. I am one of the most popular musicians in the world - l'm known in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union - and one of the most brokest. If I am making enough money to pay my bills and still feel the love for people, no bodyguards pushing you . back, then I'm satisfied. The lights dimmed and the mood grew richer when Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown took the stage last September for a concert cosponsored by the Campus Activities Center Con- cert Committee and the Wichita Blues Society. The audience was older than the usual student crowd - most were around 30 years old, a part of the baby- boom generation - and dressed casually, wearing tight blue jeans, dark T-shirts or flannel shirts, some with sunglasses, and a lot of the men wore their hair and beards long with the johnny Garcia look. We thank you for inviting us here, Brown told the audience. 'We hope we'll be worthy of our Q as coming. Do not consider us blues musicians. Consider us American musicians with Texas swingf' Brown said that he loves all styles of music. I-Ie grew up playing bluegrass, cajun and country music, music that he thought was good. He remembers when black per- formers were discriminated against although white per- ts' . formers mimicked the sound of black music. I-Ie doesn't like to think of music or people in terms of race but in terms of quality. He dropped out of the performing circuit for four years in order to refine his music and redefine his musical direction. X i tass I wanted to get out of that chittlin' circuit because I didn't like it. That's why I don't play Chicago or Mississippi Blues, I donit like the meaning of them. It's all negative. It's telling you how bad fthe black manl was treated by the white man. In the first place, he's wrong for saying 'white man.' Theres no white man, there's no colored man, there's only people. I was asked once, fWhat is your favorite song?' Well, I don't have one but all of them. I don't take no one thing and be a fanatic about it. Anything I'm playing at that moment is my favorite. Same thing with my in- struments. If I didn't I wouldn't play them. 'It took me years to be able to stress the truth to people. I'm playing the truth, it's from my heart, everything in my mind. All my energy goes into what l'm doing. Music is more than getting up there and telling how bad life is. I didn't come here for that and I'm sure you wouldn't want me here for that. That's why I avoid the idea of strict blues. If you listen to the lyrics, then blues will tell you a heck of a lot more than you're getting. It's a message. And it can be a bad one, but I prefer it being good. Story by Peter Ingmire vs 'fl' V4 c . N, 1 A ,f fff2 y Q in 'ff Democratic Despair A Glance Around On Election Day At about noon on Tuesday, Nov. 6, a black couple in their mid-thirties walked in- side the small public house at Fairmount Park. The building is the polling location for the 19th precinct, which runs just south of Wichita State University. On a table just inside the door was a large sheet showing a diagram of the voting booth. They both took the time to look over it, see- ing where the candidates' names fall. There was perhaps 50 names listed on the ballot. 'I don't know all that much about the others,' she said. 'lt's the campaign against Reagan I'm interested inf' 'Reagan's the reason I'm here, too, he said. 'It's going to be an interesting electionf' About that time, a woman in her late for- ties walked in, assisting her elderly mother. The couple knew the two women and ex- changed greetings and commented on how pleased they were to see one another exer- cising their 'constitutional right to vote. 'That's something my mommy had to fight for,' the daughter said, 'was to get me that rightf' Earlier that morning at the Democrat Par- ty Headquarters, Gail Hershey, an art teacher for the public schools, was volunteering to help drive people to the polls who needed a lift and help fill out ballots for those who couldn't leave their houses. She had taken the day off work without pay in order to help the Walter Mon- dale!Geraldine Ferraro ticket. One elderly woman, who was ill and needed help in fill- ing out her ballot, called the headquarters. 'She was real sick and had afghans all over her, Hershey said. 'I was go- ing through the ballot asking who she would vote for and asked who she wanted for president. She said, 'Well, I'm going to vote for Reaganf 'I was really appalled that she called the Democratic Headquarters. I put Reagan down - I would have felt like a schmuck if I did anything else. 'Later when I was out to pick up two little old ladies, I said, 'Wait a minute. I don't want to take these ladies to go vote for Reaganf So I asked them who they were voting for and they said Reagan. So I didn't take them. They first called the GOP headquarters and were told it was too busy so they should call the Democrats. The frustration Hershey felt was more in line with how the 1984 election turned out. The 19th precinct is a democratic stronghold and many of the voters there are black and poor. The turnout that day was close to 540 people - 128 voted in the August primary. The five women working the polling loca- tion were veterans. They sat on small seat cushions they brought with them in prepara- tion for 15 hours on metal folding chairs. They also placed 10-cent bets on the number of people would show up and vote that day. A poll watcher for the Democrats, so- meone who checks off names of registered voters as they come in to vote, was the only one stationed in the 19th precinct. The Republicans apparently did not feel it was worthwhile to dedicate the manpower there. Hershey said she began realizing Mondale and Ferraro were going to lose the day of the election when she got out in the field. The opposition to democratic ticket was often emotional. 'People for Reagan were fanatical. I was out putting campaign literature door-to-door when this guy - an ex-marine - began yell- ing at me, 'Who are you going to vote for? I walked back to his door and tried to be reasonable and said, 'I'm promoting Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale,' talking calmly and slowly like I do with my 14-year-old students. 'He was just baiting me, he didn't really want to discuss anything. He yelled, 'Geraldine Ferraro, you got to be kidding! Mondale, you got to be kiddingl' He tore off the literature on his door and wadded it up and threw it down. 'I look at it as ignorance. It makes me hap- py when I can deal with them rationally when they're irrationalf' At Kirby's, the television was on for the election results. The mood was far from jovial - the networks were projecting Reagan to win easily. 'Docs someone have any cyanide? one person lamented. The jukebox, often playing music from the '60s, was shut off when Mondale made his speech conceding the election. When Mondale said, 'One thing is for certain, this is a wonderful nationf' One tall gentleman said, 'Well, they all voted for fucking Reaganf 'God damn, it makes me sick, Roberto Barrientos said. 'But at least in four years, the people's assholes will be so wide open they'll be wanting something new.' The mood at the party for the Democrats was also low-keyed. Hershey, who worked for George McGovern's presidential cam- paign in 1972, said she sometimes asks herself why she doesn't work for someone who wins. But the candidates for local races and the national congressional and senatorial elections - in which Democrats did well - helped to encourage her. 'I don't regret it at all work- ing for the Democrats, Her- shey said. 'I needed to do it for my own peace of mind. Story by Peter Ingmire r' ,vas rf-ggi MQ? W 414 W, . Hifi! VI fr - fflff' of I a ' K f ,V . fi 2 ' 1 - f ' 1 f f wwa ' H A V, V gi V fy H v' ' ,rf S ' f ' . ' .S ' 'Z,'4E1R7 :-' -- ,n y ' . ga 2 ,3 f 5 ' nf 'W,15f,ff f fo--H GLOGKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Gail Hershey is aghast as returns come in at the Democrats' victory party. ll!6!84 Gail Hershey assists lda Nash in fill- ing out an invalid ballot. l1!6!84 The crowd at Kirhy's watch - most of them, at any rate - as Walter Mon- dale delivers his concession speech. l1!6!8-4 photos 5 Falwell Combats Crowd Exchange Cf Ideologies Mark Address When Greta Crosby addressed The Reverend jerry Falwell during the question and answer session following his speech, the crowd tried to drown out her words with boos and abusive remarks. She told Falwell, 'I object to your treatment of the questioners today.' - - Falwell immediately demanded to know whether she was a professor at Wichita State University. He kept pressing her to tell him what she was. When she eventually replied that she is a Unitarian minister, he remark- ed, 'I thought so,' and turned his back to her. The crowd erupted into cheers and ap- plause supportive of Falwell. The audience, by and large, listened eagerly to the words of The Reverend jerry Falwell during his speech delivered Nov. 13, one week after the presidential election. There was a small group of demonstrators who picketed outside Hubbard Hall where Falwell spoke. Inside the auditorium, pro- testors lined the back wall and sat in the seats near the back. A half hour before his speech, the auditorium was full, people were already sit- ting in the aisles. The crowd size was con- tolled by plain-clothes policemen and armed security stationed at the doors. The first four rows in the three center sections of the auditorium were roped off - only those with special passes were allowed to sit in those sections. When Falwell arrived, the reserved seats were taken by people who were attending him. The people standing outside in the hallway were then given the chance to grab the few remaining seats. He told dience that it was 'good to be in Reagan countryf' which prompted loud cheers and a small but solid round of boos. Throughout his half-hour speech, Falwell kept the crowd stirring. He told the audience of the resurgence of conservatism in the nation, par- ticularly among college-age people, and how 'some great things are in store for the country in the futuref' Here, he paused to take a drink of water, giving the audience the chance to applaud. Falwell addressed the issue of the au- the separation of church and state, calling it a non-issue designed to hurt Ronald Reagan. He said attention had focused on the issue only because conservative clergymen were now taking an active role in the political system. Young people are more conservative than their parents, he said, and are never going back to the leftist leanings of the '60s and '70s. He said the 'kids today are not being duped by faculties that are secure in tenure, adding that 'there's very little wrong with this school that a new faculty wouldn't cure.' Falwell then said, '. . .the real problems facing America in order of importance as they relate to our security and our freedom, as I see it' are Soviet!Cuban expansionism into Central America and abortion. He said Ronald Reagan's strong stand against the Soviets will help secure the nation. On the issue of abortion, he said, 'I do not believe that God Almighty is going to allow a free nation like ours to continue' to permit abor- tion without the judgment of heaven falling upon society. He ended by predicting that the country will continue a swing toward the right guided by the conservative religious philosophies in- to which Ronald Reagan was able to tap. He then opened the floor for questions and answers, giving those who had objections a chance to have their say. Because the auditorium did not have microphones set up,fthe questioners had to stand and call out their questions. Falwell, who had a microphone, would interrupt a questioner and talk over him before the per- son had a chance to finish. When one man asked how Falwell recon- ciled passages in the Bible admonishing that spiritual duties take precedence over worldly belongings with Falwellls call for success, Falwell interrupted and changed he topic in- to one about how his church is addressing the needs of the poor. The man then tried again with his ques- tion, again was interrupted and given an answer about how drugs have burned out the minds of people, and how those in the 'drug industry' should be imprisoned. At one point while answering a question on the Soviet Union, people in the audience were calling out maxims from the Bible, such as 'Turn the other cheekf' Falwell inter- rupted himself to comment, 'I saw a swastika here so this must be the Nazi party back here.' The sign was a swastika with a a symbol against Nazism. never bothering to turn what Falwell was talking slash over it - The audience, around to see about, laughed at the remark. 'We have time for one more question,' Falwell said. 'Let's find somebody super in- telligentf' Billie Knighton, who has adult daughters, stood up and asked how he reconciled his view of America 'as a society of free people with your pluralistic view of women as basically baby-makers and a means of servicing men. The crowd in the back gave the loudest cheer they gave all afternoon to her question. Falwell responded quickly, charging that she 'hadn't listened to a thing since you got here.' Falwell asserted that he believed in women having equal opportunities. He said that because of the view she had toward his group, 'I wonder if you don't have an anti-man view because you won't let your .... I' At this point, the cross-fire of cheers and boos grew so raucous, Falwell was drowned out for the first time that afternoon. Falwell received a partial stan- ding ovation and left the room to address those in the overflow rooms. Story by Peter Ingmire Q x t'-re ln 314' 'Q ,, 9- ,E H39 1- 1 5 . ,.,,,,. v 7, X32 if 4 gg ' 9 -Q if .fig , V QA... sf ' 3 QM ff 7 3 8 it I f M5 ' t ' PORTRAIT Academician Sees End Cf Age Heralding New Chapter In Civilization It was in the fourth grade that Greg Rob- bins knew he would become a college pro- fessor. I've always wanted to be a professor. They were the people that, for some reason, I most admired. Many of his friends in Bloomington, In- diana, were childen of instructors who taught at Indiana University. 'I seemed to be attracted to their parents as much as to those friends and to the sort of 'aura' of university life. After high school, he entered the school of music at Indiana. Robbins planned to earn his degree in piano and then go on to graduate studies in musicology. But at this time many factors were working in his life, not the least of which were the Vietnam con- flict and the rise of the 'jesus' movement. It was a time of questioning authority and sear- ching for truth. At the beginning of his junior year, Rob- bins took a survey course in New Testament studies in order to Mgive religion a last chance and fulfill an undergraduate requirement at the same time. A professor, who had recently graduated from the doctoral pro- gram at Yale, taught the course. The class was Robbins' first foray into the academic study of any religion. 'It was a tremendously exciting course for me. I learned that the academic study of religion was historical, that it was literary, that it was critical, that no questions were barred.' The questions he asked and the answers he received from both the course and the in- structor were the most honest he had en- countered. So much did the study of religions appeal to the academician in him that by his senior year he decided to pursue both a degree in music and in religious studies. After Indiana he went on to graduate work at Yale and Duke fteaching at the latterl before joining the faculty at Wichita State University. Robbins has found that the religious studies department takes on a peculiar image in the eyes of the students. 'They haven't got a very clear idea of what the academic study of religion is and what it attempts to dog they sometimes tend to think that it's a university version of church school. They are frequently surprised when they're confronted with the fact that the academic study of religion concerns more than Christianity as it's expressed in Americaf' To Robbins, the interests and methodologies of his field cut across several disciplines, and, in fact, bring many of them together. Such an attitude, he said, allows the individual to see the university as a universizjy and not simply a random assort- ment of disciplines. 'Human religiosity is so complex. I find it necessary to draw upon the insights of sociology, psychology, anthropology, literature and history - without, I hope, be- ing dilettantishf' When discussing Christian phenomenon in America, Robbins acknowledged the ac- tivity of jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority as not only politically significant, but culturally and historically as well. What jerry Falwell is all about is tribal religion at a gut level. The new religious right appears to be mostly religious. It has a religious glaze to it, but underneath it there is a great depth of political and economic self-interest. . .and xenophobia. 'What Falwell is attempting to do is not to provide new answers but, in fact, to turn the clock back. He wants to bring all of American society under a sacred canopy, but his understanding of America and American religious identity is skewed: it never existed as Falwell understands it. He wants to turn the clock back to a romanticized view of America that never existed. lt's a re- orientation of reality, a mis-perception of history. 'When I think of the Moral Majority, I don't think it speaks necessarily of the recrudescence of Christianity in the West. . . I think it is the last hurrah. It is the true harbinger that we have entered into a post-Christian age. 'What we are experiencing now is the end of an age: the end of the Christian West. We stand on the brink of a new chapter of civilization if we don't blow ourselves up. . .and I don't know what that new chapter is. It may not be the end of Chris- tianity, but it's the end of Christianity as we know it.' Robbins' suggestion that the end of the Christian West age is imminent may be unbelievable or unfathomable to some, malicious or blasphemous to others. Yet, his notion is based upon a careful critical analysis of cultural phenomena throughout history. He pointed out that tribal religion has always been more popular than true religion. 'The Old Testament prophets knew that.' He added that 'paganism had its final fling in the fourth century as did chivalry in the fif- teenth.' Ultimately, Greg Robbins' concerns en- compass more than the study of Christianityg after all, Christianity isn't the only religion. Although he himself stands within the Chris- tian tradition, he is also an academiciang he disciplines himself to stay in touch with all the events and studies of the world around him. Consequently, this is why he is so fascinated by the happenings at the end of this age. 'Whatever occurs, I hope l'm around to observe it.' Story by TA Thompson Photo by Kenn Murphy Ex-Aide Tells Of Presidential Renewal By the time Ronald Reagan took of- fice in 1980 the power of the presidency had been so weakened the person elected could no longer effectively govern, said David Gergen in a speech delivered last September. He told a full house in the Campus Activities Center Theatre there was great concern about how to strengthen the office. Over the last Z4 years, Gergen said, there have been six presidents. There have been nine Secretary of States com- pared to the Soviet Union's one foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko. This tur- nover has led to a urevolving door' presidency and a discontinuity of policy. There has not been one single man since Eisenhower who has served out two full terms and left that office as a success. We have had a series of presidents who have left there, perhaps not personally disillusioned but they were extremely disappointed with what they set out to do and with what they achieved' The Vietnam War, Watergate, the economic turmoil of the '70s all weakened the office. Gergen also cited the loss of party affiliation, the rise of special interest groups and the loss of a strong central leadership in Congress as other factors limiting the presi- dent's power to govern. But the rise of the modern press, Gergen said, is probably the most influential factor in how the office has lost its strength. When presidents first take their office, Gergen said, 'there is a tendency to glorify, to deify, to make them larger than life. And then a few months later as we discover they have feet of clay, we tear them apart. We discover they're not what we thought they were. They're either not as good as we thought they'd be, they're not the men we'd thought they were going to be, therefore we ought not to support them the way we thought we ought to.' This problem arises because of overex- posure to the general public, Gergen said. A president cannot be a news item every night. People will get bored with what he has to say and turn him off. While the press is more liberal than the majority of the country, Gergen said, it does stay objective. The problem then is how the news is presented. The press, he said, tends to be negative because of its role as a wat- chdog. 'I think there's a lot to be said for the press' role of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. But thatis very different from saying that they ought to represent only the negative part of reality. I think they've got a job to represent reality as it truly is. If things are going right, they ought to report it. If things are going wrong, they ought to report that. But they ought not to make that kind of judgment. Let us make that judg- ment for ourselves as a people. Turning to how Reagan has handled the press, Gergen said Reagan's strength was both personal and administrative. Reagan has a natural ease in front of the camera. He understands how the camera works as a method of communication. An example was when Reagan was to I draw a line on a graph during a national- ly televised address on economics. After Reagan rehearsed that part of the speech, he left the cap off the pen. By the time he was to draw during the ac- tual speech, the pen had dried out. I didn't know what to do. Fortunately we had a consultant in the office who had a second pen with him. This guy hit the deck and crawled around live televi- sion, reached up and handed the pen. Reagan took the pen, a little knowing smile, talked on a little bit and said, 'I think I'll try this pen againf It was perfect. I was thinking to myself, 'What if that had been Richard Nixon? ' Reagan's other strength was that he did not need to be president, Gergen said. He could walk away from the job tomorrow and be satisfied. Gergen said White House staffers planned how to regain a presidential im- age. A major part of the plan was to con- trol what news would be covered. They don't want to let, if they can help it, television decide whatis going to be on the news every night. They want to decide for themselves. By controlling the agenda of the news, the president can avoid overexposure and con- trol the image he wants to portray, Gergen said. The president, in order to be an effec- tive leader, should be associated with good news, not the things that are going wrong. The American people are also responsible for the presidency, Gergen said. Americans should realize that presidents are not as great as they first appear nor as weak as they are made out to be. The president needs to have the benefit of the doubt. Because that is a difficult office, it's one which requires not only a strong leader but it requires strong understanding from the public. And I think we owe that to the per- son in the oval office to help them be suc- cessful and govern us well so we have a bet- ter democracy. Story by Peter Ingmire A Critical Election Columnist Says Race A Referendum The 1984 presidential election will decide the direction of the country for the next generation, said Richard Reeves during a speech delivered September 1984, making it 'one of the critical elections in American history. It will certainly be one of the critical elec- tions in all of our lifetimes. 'We now, whether we like it or don't like it, know what Ronald Reagan stands for. We have an idea what Reaganism is and we'll vote yes or no on that. And by doing that, we are going to change the way this country is and change the country our children are brought up in. Reeves defined Reaganism as an ef- fort to cut government spending, mak- ing less money available for social pro- grams while at the same time diverting more money to defense. That would strip government of its capacity to solve social problems so people will quit turn- ing to government for help. The revenue that is collected would go to defense, not charity. The United States is a welfare state, despite objections to the contrary, Reeves said. Loans for college and homes, Social Security and Medicaid are all presumed to be our birthright. Reagan took his election as a mandate to dismantle those programs. He was stopped in his first term but presumably, Reeves said, he will try again if given the chance. Reagan has made clear his positions on the questions facing the United States, Reeves said. During the Republican Party National Convention in Dallas, Reagan made an im- plicit pledge of military support to prevent communism in Central America. 'It is questions like that - what is the defense posture of the United States, what are the critical interests of the United States - that make this a critical voting year and, I think, not just another election year.' Reagan represents strong ideas on what the United States is and what its roles should be, Reeves said, and the election will deter- mine whether people agree. But there is a problem in that, while peo- ple may be frightened of what Reagan is say- ing, few have a clear idea of what the Democrats and Walter Mondale have to of- fer. That problem, Reeves said, is because the Democrats have not articulated any new proposals. Part of Reagan's strength, and that of the Republican party, lies in ideas of patriotism and populism. The Republicans call themselves America's Party,' Reeves said, and have long been associated with the wav- ing of the flag. Reagan has adapted the populist movement to his political outlook by switching the economic oppressor from big business to big government. Reagan projects the image of America be- ing the repository for all the good in the world, '. . . that somehow, God - and we didn't know how personally until the last few weeks - has chosen the American people to lead the world out of the wilderness, that we are going to save the world whether the world wants to be saved or not.' Reagan's belligerency is one of the chief concerns people have voiced about him, Reeves said. Other concerns include his at- tempts to dismantle social programs, the deficit and his age - how much energy will he devote to the office and who will be in charge when he is taking one of his vacations. Reeves said that Reagan has also trig- gered a fundamental debate on what the relationship will be between the in- dividual and the state. Both parties are founded on the precepts of individual xfreedom. 'The Republicans and Democrats have parted company historically, and particularly in my lifetime, over what restraints they want removed. The Republicans have argued for a kind of economic individualism, a removal of restaints on economic activity. The Democrats have moved toward a kind of social and cultural individualism, a removal of restraints on behaviorf' That difference is exemplified in how each party defines the concept of family, Reeves said. The Reagan Republicans - are saying your support base is your per- sonal contacts. 'That's what Ronald Reagan he does the litany about means when neighborhood, church, home, Rover. What he's saying is: Those mediating structures and the government fare between you therel, go to them if you got a problem. The Democrats, on the other hand, believe that the nation is one family, that preservation of each other is everyones responsibility and the governments role is to administer that support, Reeves said. Dur- ing the election, the nation will have to decide which direction to choose, which definition to accept, and of which America to be a part. The election is really about definitions of America .... We have given ourselves the power to define ourselves. That's what America is about and we have to constantly redo that now with these people, particularly Reagan, who has a very clear vision of the country, and Mondale, who doesn't seem to have such a clear vision but he knows he doesn't like the one being argued aboutf' Story by Peter Ingmire Steinem Advocates Action In The '80s 'No group this size should ever get away without being an organizing meeting and all feminist speakers say, 'If we come today and there is no trouble tomorrow, we haven't done our jobs,' ' said Gloria Steinem, during a speech she delivered Oct. 16 in Wilner Auditorium. She told the overflow audience how, when she came to Wichita in 1971, the enthusiastic response she received made her realize the women's movement had nation- wide support. The women's movement has progressed in two waves, she said. The first wave 'gained for women of all races, and for black men in this society, a legal identity as human beings. Now, in the second wave, we are struggling for legal equalityf' Issues raised by the women's movement now have majority support which indicates how strong the movement has grown, Steinem said. This has resulted in a conser- vative backlash. 'Now we are taken serious- ly. No longer are we treated to ridicule but instead to serious oppositionf' One of those groups in opposition is the Reagan administration, Steinem said, which does not reflect the majority. We have before us an administration elected by the lowest voter turnout in more than 30 years, and by the richest, the oldest, the whitest and the most male electorate in the history of this countryf' While women have made gains shown by the number entering the work force, she said a new form of inequality exists. Women must now juggle a career and family duties while men have not had to make a similar adjustment. Throughout her speech, Steinem worked to dispel the idea that women need men more than men need women. According to patriarchal doctrine, women are supposed to have a man standing beside them. Now, if only men had realized how little it mattered which man was standing there, she mused. Steinem proposed that we choose each other out of mequal need and friendship, do- ing away with polarized roles that interfere with femalelmale relationships. Feminism, Madeline she said, instead of being seen as anti-love, may make love possible for the first time. 'Men have been deprived, too,' she said. For each of us, progress lies in completing the circle of ourselves. We are not trying to exchange roles or to imitate each other but, rather, to help each otlyer become full, in- dividual, unique people. Steinem then outlined four major themes of the second wave of the women's move- ment for the '80s and beyond. The first major theme is to establish reproductive freedom as a basic human right. 'Reproductive freedom literally means the right to have children in safety,' she said, Mas well as the right not to have children. It is simply the individual's right to decidef' Whether it's the right to safe and legal abortion, access to contraceptives, re- defining sexuality or control over the childbearing process, Steinem proposed that reproductive rights should be as solid as freedom of speech. 'We could at least have control of our own cells from the skin in,' she pointed out. The second major area is the redefinition and revaluing of work. Traditionally, work done in the home or fields by women has not been recognized as useful, Steinem said. Even though it is not part of the Gross Na- tional Product, it still needs to be defined as work. Work becomes devalued, she said, when women and minorities move into a particular sector of the economy, and the wages being offered fall. Now don't be discouraged by this because we are simply going to integrate and devalue everything. The solution - equal pay for comparable work - is much more important than equal pay for equal work, she said. 'If you can look at comparability, then you can make quan- tum leaps forward.' Her third point was the realignment of democratic families. The family must reflect the democracy of the nation where each member has certain basic rights. She added that this is important not only as a political model, but as a cultural model. Steinem's final point was the necessity of weeding out unjust politics in our culture. These politics are evidenced by the types of jobs people have. Men selling washing machines and making the big commissions, while women sell men's underwear for no commission doesn't reflect expertise and competence - it reflects politics. Steinem closed with the thought that violence, as an inevitable means of settling conflicts in a patriarchal society, is being challenged. MSO, perhaps we are beginning to approach the root cause of domestic, na- tional, international violence that we can so ill afford on this fragile spaceship earth that We love so much. We are just all of us, women and men, beginning to understand what we could be if we had our full human set of wings. And that is such an enormous reward that no matter the length of the struggle or the depth of the problem, we now know there can never be a turning back.' Story by Madeline McCullough Crowd F locks To Hear Author's Sermon Addressing a packed crowd in Miller Con- cert Hall, Kurt Vonnegut answered the ques- tion that rested on everyone's lips. I am tru- ly a coffee achiever. Coffee has always been my friend. lt has never harmed me. And with all the things that are wrong with America, I think caffeine is one of our least troubles, surelyf' The hall was jammed 45 minutes before Vonnegut was scheduled to speak last Oc- tober. By the time his lecture began people were crowded around him on stage in a scene of near-religious proportions. And he gave them their money's worth. He addressed a myriad of topics. On the separation of church and state: 'I don't think God should be put in charge of everything until we know him a little better. All we know about him for certain so far is that he's white, male and Republicanf' On the problems being left for the next generation to solve: We have become children-eating animals. We are devouring our grandchildren, we seem to be at war with them and, of course, they have no political representative because they don't even exist yet.' On censorship: 'lMy booksl were actually burned in North Dakota. I think there's reason to celebrate because isolated rural communities that size when I was a boy were burning people. They've made so much progress merely burning books now that I feel like sending them my collected works and a can of kerosenef' Vonnegut's topic was 'How to Get a job Like Mine,' and he did talk about writing. He encouraged everyone to try writing something at some point in their lives. But he warned against trying to make a career out of being a writer unless there was a finan- cial safety net. 'A lot of beginning writers have inherited pots of money. You'd be surprised. 'Another good way is to marry it. Plenty of people have done that and there's nothing disgraceful about it. But his most serious suggestion was it is not enough to want to write, one had to want to write about something. He said the desire to write transcends the barriers that may be thrown in one's path and cited oppressed countries, whose literature is some of the richest in the world, as an example. 'The most interesting writing and the most important writing are going on in those countries and other tyrannies, too. No doubt in Yugoslavia, and no doubt in Chile, and many other places where the governments are cruel and pigheaded. It is being done privately, almost by nursery school methodsf' Vonnegut said that it is the societies designed by people who are most often the villians. 'In all my stories, the lagos are never individuals. But the intolerable villians, the treacherous villians are culture and the society. Vonnegut said he was a pacifist and that he favors unilateral nuclear disarmament. Nuclear weapons, he said, are flawed by design. They have no military use which pentagon officials have admitted to for years. Therefore he suggested the warheads be fill- ed with jelly beans. He then closed by rereading a sermon he read a few years ago at St. john the Divine in New York. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, he read, there has been a fear of the horrors these weapons could inflict on people. He pointed out that all nuclear weapons have really done was expedite a centuries-old tradition: Kill other people. Dead is dead. Scientists for all their creativity will never discover a way of mak- ing people deader than deadf' He then tried tracing fates worse than death and showed how people have weathered slavery, dishonor and being con- quered. Cruxifiction was the only remote possibility but there weren't enough carpenters for that. 'So I haven't had much luck, have l, in identifying fates worse than death. Cruxific- tion is the only clear winner and we aren't about to be crucified. We aren't about to be enslaved, either. And no potential enemy that I've heard about wants to come over and treat us the way we still treat American In- dians. What other things worse than death could I name? Life without petroleum?' Man's salvation may fall in the hands of an unlikely candidate, Vonnegut said. l'm talk- ing about television sets.' The modern media has universalized people by bringing into their homes the awe, beauty and horror of the rest of the world, giving us reason to mourn the death or wounding of any human being. 'Thanks to modern communication Americans of all ages were dead sick of war even before We went into Vietnam. We now know that all our potential enemies, he said, are human beings almost exactly like ourselves. They need food, how amazing. They love their children, how amazing. They obey their leaders, how amazing. They think like their neighbors, how amazing. 'I bring you good news this evening. Peo- ple have changed. We aren't so bloodthirsty anymoref' Vonnegut concluded his speech using the impact of a simple sentence about what mot- to the peoples of the nations must adopt in order to keep living. Nothing is lost save dishonor.' Story by Peter Ingmire Congresswoman Calls For Re- evaluation Reductions Can Improve Defense In order to stem the rising costs l of defense spending, the United States must realize the military can no longer operate the way it has in the past, said Colorado Con- gresswoman Pat Schroeder during last December's Eisenhower lec- ture. Schroeder serves on the House Armed Services Committee and has been an advocate for reduc- ing the cost of defense while in- creasing national security. She said Eisenhower was the last president who could manage the military. Since then, it has become a sacred cow. Part of the problem is that the United States still operates as if it were the 1940s when it was the policeman to the world. Now our allies need to pay their fair share, she said. 'In the United States we spend seven per- cent of our Gross National Product for defense,' Schroeder said. By the end of the decade we will be spending eight percentf' That figure compares with what our allies spend who use their money for industrial development. NATO's average is 3.7 percent, less than half of what ours will be. Canada is two per- cent, japan is one percent. Now let me put it in something that's even more meaningful. Everyone in this room's fair share of the American defense bill this year was 55877. 'If I was giving this lecture in japan I would say to them, 'Your contribution was SS97.' ' Schroeder has cosponsored a bill with Sen. Sam Nunn that would reduce the U.S. military presence overseas gradually over the next few years while our allies build up theirs. If Europeans had the same percen- tage of their civilian population in the military as the United States did, she said, there would be more forces without the U.S. forces than are currently stationed in Europe. I'm not talking about cutting ours, l'm talking they beef-up theirs. Eisenhower said you're going to have the strongest defense when you're equal partners. Schroeder then turned to nuclear weapons, arguing that they were decreasing the effectiveness of conventional weapons. As more reliance is placed on having a nuclear response to an aggressive act, con- ventional forces are shortchanged and eliminated as a viable response. The United States would either have to surrender or use nuclear weapons to retaliate. 'Now that's a very stupid policy. lt's nothing but a nuclear tripwiref' Because the devastating results of a nuclear exchange are only now being realiz- ed, such as the effects of a nuclear winter, the use of such weapons becomes even more reprehensible. Other nations who recognize that those weapons can never be used could call the bluff and attack the U.S.'s weakened conventional forces. She advocates a mutually verifiable, bilateral arms reduction and a return to a dependence on conventional weapons which are safer and cheaper. The issue is not one of peace, she said, but of survival. She criticized the pentagon's weapons pro- curement system that has led to the develop- ment of more complex weapons that are ex- pensive to build and maintain. She called for generic weapons where, instead of 13 different fighter planes all able to do basically the same thing, there are two or three which can trade spare parts. Another cost-saving measure would be to encourage in-house watchdogs over the estimated 56,000 government contracts that are signed a day. The Whistle Blowers Act she sponsored was halted by the Reagan administra- tion, she said, sending a clear message. 'There will be no whistle- blowers, thank you very muchf' She said savings and increased security could also be gained by more on the civilian sector in emergency situations, and by stopping the relocating of enlisted men every 18 months, something no other nation does. 'When you join the military in any other area, you join a unit and you work with that unit and you get to know that unit.' Finally she said there is a need to boost morale by giving support to the military family. There are 600,000 children in the active army, another 600,000 in the reserves. Troops who are called to battle while worrying about who will take care of their wife and kids are not combat-ready, Schroeder said. 'We really have a tremendous problem that they haven't thought about, and we liet- ter think about, because it really is a new kind of army that even Eisenhower probably would not recognize. But if welre going to be ready and if we're going to have defense we better think about it because that's how it is. 'Stop dreaming about the way it was and deal with how it is. That's got to be the message on all these things.' national relying Story by Peter Ingmire Berry Urges Civil Rights Reorganization Wanting progress without struggle is like wanting crops without plowing, according to Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Berry advocated the militant dramatization of social problems during her speech last November, 'Reagan and Civil Rights: Looking Ahead. Berry reported that things do not look good for civil rights issues under the Reagan ad- ministration. Regarding the 1984 election results, Berry said there is both good news and bad news. The good news, she said, is that both the House and the Senate are now more pro- gressive on civil rights issues than before the election because of the number of Democrats elected into office. 'Mr. Reagan's coattails didn't quite coat- tail, she mused. The bad news is that 'the American peo- ple, by a large majority, re-elected a presi- dent who has the worst civil rights record of any president in the last 30 years in this country, bar none.' Civil rights was a non-issue in this cam- paign, Berry said. The American people either didn't know or didn't care about issues such as declining minority enrollment in col- lege, increasing unemployment among blacks, the administration's position on religion, and the feminization of poverty, she said. Civil rights is not in vogue among a majori- ty of the American people who voted in the presidential election, Berry said. 'Blacks are not in vogue . . . women's issues are not in vogue . . . and focusing on improving in- comes and opportunities is clearly not in vogue.' Berry questioned why the American peo- ple showed such a lack of support for civil rights by re-electing Reagan. 'Mr. Reagan was opposed to the Civil Rights Act when it was passed in l964,' she said. 'He didnitjust get opposed to civil rights last year.' She discounted the idea of a 'new' conser- vatism as a reason for the lack of progress in civil rights issues. People have always been conservative when it comes to social reform, she said. Berry does not believe the fiscal conser- vatives' interpretation of the failure of social programs either. The fiscally conservative are arguing that social programs, like those of the '60s, don't work, she said, because we still have poor people. Berry argued that those programs did what they were designed to do. She gave the ex- ample of the Head Start program and how long-term studies done on children in the program show that they did learn more and did better all through school. When fiscal conservatives tell you about the programs that don't work, said Berry, 'they don't tell you about the defense budget, and the airplanes that don't fly, and the jeeps that won't start, and all the rest of it because nobody says the defense programs don't work.' She said that after hearing the president reduce the job of the federal government to national defense, and nothing more, she really began to wonder about her own ideas concerning the federal government's respon- sibilities toward society and social programs. 'I reached to my bedside table and picked up my copy of the Constitution, because I always read it the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning,' she said, beginn- ing a tongue-in-cheek tale. 'So I started reading through the Constitu- tion, and. . .what did it say? 'Congress shall have the power to tax and spend,' and sure enough it said, 'to provide for the common defensef I said, 'Uh-oh, wrong again.' 'But then I read on and what did I see? 'and to promote the general welfaref And so then I got my reading glasses and put them on. And I looked and I said 'Maybe there's some qualifiers here - like some adjectives or something. Maybe it'll say, 'A little-ol'-bit of general welfare and a whole lot of com- mon defensef 'But it didn't. They were on an equal footing in the Constitution. Which means what? Which means that we have just as much right to ask for programs that promote the general welfare as to provide for the common defense. 'lf we are fiscal conservatives, let us be conservative about everything,' she propos- ed. 'Let us fund social programs that are needed as well as provide for the common defense. 'One of the things we've been doing is liv- ing on the gas fumes from the gas tank of the l960s, she said, referring to the 'militant vanguard' that dramatized civil rights issues two decades ago. Berry reminded the audience that we can- not stop fighting for civil rights. We need to keep creating conditions for change, she said. 'Those of us who regard ourselves pro- gressives . . .have been out- computerized . . . out-organized, out- petitioned. We have lost the propaganda debate and we have not dramatized the issues that will give the politicians a mandate to move,' she said. Instead of hearing about solutions to social problems from Congress, Berry predicted that we will hear about 'tax simplificationf' 'revenue enhancement' and 'reform.' This means only that taxes will be raised, she said, and bipartisan authorities agree, economic change will not solve social pro- blems. 'What we have to do is remember how change is really made,' Berry said. 'Power concedes nothing without a demand. If we are ever to gain attention to our issues, responses to them, whatever strategies we use, we have to organize, to militantly dramatize them so that they cannot be ig- nored, and we must pay by sacrifice, suffer- ing if needs be, and with everything that comes to hand. Two weeks after her speech at WSU, Berry was arrested for demonstrating against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. The militant dramatiza- tion of social problems is evidently still in vogue with Mary Frances Berry. Story by Madeline McCullough Editor Gives Personal Side Of Apartheid Criticizing Ronald Reagan's policy toward South Africa, White South African newspaper editor Donald Woods said coun- tries who refuse to levy economic sanctions are, in effect, giving moral support for the country's policy of apartheid. Woods, in an address delivered last February, said the na- tions of the world must impose sanctions in order to end what he called one of the world's great racial evils. Woods gave a personal account of the repressive South African government. He was a close friend of Steve Biko, who died of blows to the head he received while in police custody. Woods wrote a number of editorials about the incident and raised an interna- tional furor over the slaying. As a result, he became a public persona non gram, and was banned in his country. The country of South Africa has been run by a white minority since 1652, Woods said, when a group of Dutch settlers, along with other western Europeans, moved into what is one of the richest regions in the world. But the whites' rule took on an added dimension of repression in 1948, when they established apartheid, a set of 317 racial laws that codified segregation. He said it created cradle-to-grave control over the lives of blacks. Those laws have been added to over the years, Woods said, to the point where they are often ridiculous. For example, blacks are required to carry bulky passes on their per- son at all times. There was a crazy incident recently in South Africa where black marathon runners were being arrested while training for not carrying their passes with them. They asked how a runner could carry that thing around? So the chief of police in that region said, as a compromise, if they have a photostat copy of the first page of their pass pinned to their running uniforms, it would be OK. Now that gives you some idea of how zany it is. The Z5 million blacks in a country of 30 million people are restricted to only 13 per- cent of the land. Apartheid laws, Woods said, are designed to keep blacks from hav- ing the same expectations out of life that whites have. Opposition to apartheid is im- portant, Woods said, because, with three- fifths of the world's population being black, such an action is an insult to all people. And there's another reason it should be everyone's business. We're all human beings, and it is the last of the codified racial evils. In history, there have been three which were codified and planned. The first was slavery - and I believe slavery isn't dead yet while apartheid still survives, although it's -been eliminated most everywhere in the world but there. Then you've got the Holocaust, the second great racial evil. And then, third and last is apartheidf' One time Woods came home and found the police surrounding his home. They told him two black men without passes had entered. He told them he would investigate in order to stall the authorities, and, after conferring with his wife, decided to hide the men in the bathroom with her. Because I know the mentality of the South African white policeman - he would never conceive of a white woman being locked in a toilet with two black men.' The police forced their way in -- search warrants are not required in South Africa - and began searching the house. They went to the upstairs guest room. Woods followed, stood in front of an empty cupboard, and began acting guiltily. Political difficulty makes for great cunning, Woods said, ad- ding that when he gets nervous he gets cheeky toward authority. CThe officer! said, 'Move aside, pleasef I said, 'No, there's nothing in there, I've look- ed.' He said, 'Please move aside, I've got to look in that cupboardf I said, 'Are you calling me a liar? I told you this cupboard is empty.' He said, 'If you don't move aside, I'll have you forcibly moved.' 'OK,' I said. Ah, it's one of those nice moments. The men were not found and did escape. Woods moved from the comical assessment of apartheid to the more serious. He told of how the policy has led to thousands of recorded deaths and millions of unrecorded ones due to malnutrition and illiteracy, con- tributing to a 60 percent child mortality rate. After he was banished, attacks on his family became common, his house was fired upon and bugged, and he was under Z4-hour surveillance. His five-year-old daughter was sent a T-shirt by a police officer impregnated with acid which burned her eyes and skin. Woods and his family decided to escape South Africa, and now live in England. A civil war is brewing in South Africa which will most affect the young, 'fighting for the immoral, and the unattainable. It's always the old guys who send in the young ones to fight for them. Woods said White South Africans fear economic sanctions most. The United States and Great Britian consistently veto sanctions in the United Nations Security Council and pressure must be applied to preserve race relations throughout the world. You've all got to help. We've got to write our representatives, we got to keep the pressure building because if the veto isn't withdrawn, if there is no successful divest- ment, if thereis no economic boycott, then that war is going to escalate, and those many people are going to get killed, and race rela- tions - maybe in many parts of the world - could be adversely affected. Story by Peter Ingmire A Celebration of Language Pair Proves The Power Cf Words When Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee took to the stage in Miller Concert Hall at Duerksen Fine Arts Center last january, they were given a standing ovation. Then for the next two hours they led the audience in an aural sym- phony of poems, epithets, stories and words which laugh, weep, suckle and stab. Dee and Davis brought with them a collection of works they have discovered and written to share with the audience, works from Langston Hughes, Bob Kauf- man, Gordon Nelson, Caroline' Rogers, Martin Luther King, and the Bible. They performed the meaning of what was said, often dividing up sentences between them in a fast repartee that was im- possible to sort out from whom it was com- ing - not that it mattered. It was two hours of word jazz. Some highlights: Let's sing about love, don't take it for granted. Makes you walk straight, instead of leaning all slanted. What is love? fpregnant pausel Love is oceans of emotions surrounded by expanses of expenses. . . Love is a high wind from Heaveng love is a low blow from Hell. . . Love is a sharing and caring born of truth. . . Love is when you sink into his arms, and wind up with your arms in his sink. . . Love rejoices not in iniquity, but in truth. Becometh all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, enjoyeth all things - love never faileth.' Dee told a story about a mongoose who decided to not kill cobras out of moral priniciple. Rumors about his political, ethical and sexual makeup spread. He was ostraciz- ed and eventually jailed for being against the values of mongoosism. 'The moral is: ashes to ashes, clay to clay. If the enemy doesn't get you, your own folks may.' They recited a poem forgiving America for Mnailing black jesus to the cross,' for 'eating black children - I know your hunger, for 'burning japanese babies defensively. They forgave because 'your ancestor had beautiful thoughts on his brain - his descendants are experts in real estate. Your generals have mushrooming visions, and everyday your people get more and more cars, televisions, dead dreams. You must have been great - alive.' They sang epithets. 'The search of the end of a circle, constant occupation of squares. . . It's perfectly all right to throw the first stone if you have some more in your pocket. . . I went to a masquerade disguised as myself, and not one of my friends recognized me. . . I want to prove that Los Angeles is a practical joke played on us by superior beings on a humorous planet.' There was the story written by Dee of three-fingered, one-eyed, peg-legged, hook- ed Freddy, a large black man who would go berserk when he heard the word 'niggerf' He subsequently lost parts of his body, and mut- tered to himself, I'm not a nigger, I ain't a nigger, I ain't.' Then one day Freddy sat down at the piano, and played colors like Coltrane. The audience was amazed, and Freddy made his fortune. And he eventually got over his obsession with that word because he quit losing parts 'ever since that brawl some five years ago where he got his eardrums broke and lost his power to hear.' Dee and Davis spoke of dreams, of women, of rela- tionships between men and women, of people and their world, of people and themselves, always trying out what words best to use. English is not a good language to express emotions through mostly, I imagine, because people try to speak English instead of trying to speak through it. They then recalled how the words of Dr. Martin Luther King helped move a nation on the right path by establishing freedom, but that his vision is not complete. They said that now equality must be established so the poor and oppressed can have a fair chance. 'America doesn't hate a man primarily because he's black, or white, or jewish, or Scotch, or Italian, or Polish. But America will hate a man if he's a poor. What we hate in this country are losersf' Eulogizing King with a poem entitled, 'Now That He Is Safely Dead,' which told of how a hero's name and cause can be twisted when he is no longer there to defend it, Dee and Davis ended by reciting a poem directing people to offer love and respect for young and old, and to make the day ours. 'Today is ours, let? live it. And love is strong, letlv give it. A song can help, letk .ring it. Peace is dear, letlr bring it. The past is gone, don?me it. Our work is here, letlr do it. Our world is wrong, letlv ngllt it. The battle's hard, letlrjigllt it. The road is rough, letlv clear it. The future vast, don? fizar it. Is faith asleep? letk wake it. Today is ours, let? take zt David Pulliam Story by Peter Ingmire Remembering The Future Author Calls For Reflection Cf Past The scene of a young Mexican lawyer straddling the United States!Mexico border is one of Carlos Fuentes' earliest perceptions of the two nations' bond. This image of my father standing with one foot in Mexico and another foot in the United States became a symbol of my own imagination, for the 3,000 mile border between Mexico and the United States is more than the border bet- ween Mexico and the United States. It is the frontier between two memories - a memory of triumph and a memory of loss - best ex- pressed by Portfillo Diaz's famous exclama- tion, 'Poor Mexico! So far from God and so near to the United Statesl' ' In a speech delivered May 1984, Fuentes told how history is inexorably joined with the future. But America's history, nestled in optimism for the future, has separated it from Latin America's by its hubris. When Fuentes first came to America in the 1930s, the country was undergoing a transition to combat its economic woes. He lived in Washington D.C. with his father, the Mexican ambassdor to the United States. He went to elementary school, ubetween the inauguration of Citizen Roosevelt and the interdiction of Citizen Kane.' He saw the nation as one characteriz- ed by faith, progress and optimism but began reading about Mexico, a land so dif- ferent that it seemed, to him, a fantasy characterized by nostalgia, sad songs and im- possible desires. He adopted traditional American values based on discipline and aggressive hard work. I became the first Mexican Calvinistf' On March 18, 1938, Mexico nationalized the holdings of foreign oil companies. The press reacted swiftly, calling it a communist action and advocated invasion of Mexico, which caused Fuentes to shift his allegiance. Instantly, surprisingly, I became a pariah in my school - cold shoulders, aggressive stares, epithets, sometimes even blows. Children know how to be cruel. Their hate, he said, was taught to them by their elders, who feared more the intrinsic similarities rather than the differences. The nation's reaction, a reaction based on living for the future instead of coming to terms with the present situations, helped formed his patriotism for Mexico. His first public rebellion came when he saw the movie, Man of Conquest. 'When Dix Houston proclaimed the secession of the Republic of Texas from Mexico, I jumped on the theater seat and proclaimed, on my own and from the full height of my nationalist 10 years, 'Viva Mexico! Death to the gringos To fully understand the soul of Latin America, Fuentes immersed himself in the language. He traveled to Chile, which was then a bastion of progressive politics and social reform where literati thrived. My passage from English to Spanish decided the contrite expression of what before in Washington had been the revela- tion of an identity. I wanted to write and I wanted to write in order to show myself that my identity and my country were real.' Literature helped to recover the voices of Latin America's silent past to give to the pre- sent the voices which were unheard, 'sw Fuentes said. The United States' foreign policy, representing the force of optimism and progress at the expense of history, has been neglectful in recognizing that there is a challenge coming from the Latin American countries which make up 80 percent of the population, land mass and natural resources - Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela. The countries are increasing in wealth but not in equitable distribution of that wealth, Fuentes said. The middle class is becoming increasingly frustrated and the rural areas are becoming poorer. The United States' reac- tion has been to increase the strength of the national armies in order to quell any dissen- tion. But the unrest remains which can easily be guided by Messianic leader into a dangerous situation. Fuentes criticized the United States' in- tervention into the region, saying it goes against the principles of democracy based on the rule of law. He urged the United States government to use diplomacy, rather than military force, as a first option in the region - something the Reagan administration has failed to do. American foreign policy should not be bas- ed on non-intervention or negative interven- tion, Fuentes said, but rather, on being respectful of other nations' sovereignty. 'The United States should stop being the busy-bodies, the perverse innocents out to save others. We can only save ourselves. mWhen the dust settles on this conflict, we shall see that it was a chapter in the difficult and contradictory passage from a bipolar to a multipolar structure in world affairs. Remember the future, imagine the past. It shall be multiple, it shall be shared. Remember the future, imagine the past. We shall have a future because we have main- tained a past. Remember the future, imagine the past. They are the actual value we all give to our present where the times of mankind, being many, are one.' Story by Peter Ingmire Sevareid Warns Of F ragmented US. A great danger facing America is one of continued fragmentation, Eric Sevareid warned in a speech delivered in june 1984. Divisions caus- ed by developments in political and social areas have made society less unified. Speaking before a packed auditorium in Hubbard Hall, Sevareid said began by saying he was pessimistic about tomorrow but optimistic about the day after tomorrow. He called himself a 'second-look liberal' rather than a neoconservative, ubecause their intellectual leaders seem, to me, not to exhibit a very genuine spirit of compassion about less well-off people.' When Ronald Reagan came into office, he was identified as part of the Radical Right, Sevareid said, but his buoyancy and natural faith gave the people what they needed. 'But I'm not sure that that charm, that op- timism and faith, will prove completely suffi- cient for a truly successful presidencyf' Reagan, as a candidate, said the govern- ment was the nation's biggest problem and while the problems were complex, the answers were simple - a turnabout from Carter. I wonder if fReaganJ believes that anymore. Witness his repeated changes of course in so many policy areas as realities have borne in upon him.' While Carter's mentality led to indecision and delay, Sevareid said, the danger of Reagan's approach - the 'leap before you look' approach - is his simplicity of thought. Reagan came into office believing he had a mandate for change. But the 1980 election was not a watershed election, Sevareid said, because only about one-fourth of the potential electorate voted. A shift to the belief that government was the chief cause of inflation, military spending should increase, and welfare programs were not well administered did crystallize, but the economic recession that followed Reagan in- to office tempered his mandate. Although there was no liberal backlash, Reagan aban- doned his New Right mandates as realism descended upon him and the 1984 presiden- tial election grew closer. 'So he has, save now and then in his rhetoric, gone forth and then back on the United Nations, on arms control negotia- tions, on the grain embargo, the Rus- sianlliuropean pipeline, international len- ding policy and theories of so-called limited nuclear war, environmental protection, and so on.' This switch, Sevareid said, has outflanked the Democrats and it may be too late for them this election year. What brought about the change in Reagan since taking office was that the American system does not really allow for radical changes to the right or left. This is a middle- class country, Sevareid said. The nation itself has entered into middle age after suffer- ing through a series of national crises such as the Vietnam war and Watergate. Post-world- war American supremacy has given way to the realization of limitations. Sevareid said he feared inflation because it strikes at the nation's philosophic founda- tions. 'America has had no unifying faith or religion except one: faith in the future. And the continual debasement of the common currency, I think, had been badly eroding Madeline McCullough that central faith. The press is another powerful social change that has contributed to fragmenta- tion, Sevareid said. He was critical of the direction in which it was moving - newspapers no longer locally owned but bought out by na- tional publishers. In broad- casting, the opposite is true - too much diversity without concomitant improvements in quality, leading to informa- tional overload. But mass atrocities cannot be done when reporters are close by, he said. The post- Watergate mentality of the press has led to bias, but the real problem is haste. In the rush to report an event, flaws occur. But the press is self- correcting, so the public must pay sustained attention to learn the truth. He also discussed the issue of illegal im- migration that has slowed the melting pot. 'The distinctively American culture or per- sonality will not take form. Maybe this is part of being what Eric Hoffer called 'the first new thing in history.' I'm not wise enough to know. But as I said earlier, I am optimistic about the day after tomorrowf' Sevareid said the United States is at the point where some new political philosophy is struggling to be born. The young must develop that new definition but, above all, never sacrifice civil liberties. 'And were they lost, then I would lose my optimism about the day after tomorrow, about world peace itself.' The two superpowers, locked in a conflict which can become explosively unbearable, needs that relief. 'ln this polariz- ed world, there does seem to be a point at which individual freedom and collective sur- vival become one and the same. Were going to have to trust one another, even those we feel may wish us harm. We all have to take that risk. That's what built this country in the first place: risk and trust.' Story by Peter Ingmire I n L w PARSNASSUS Basketball 1985 A 8 Shockers Finally Make It To Money Games The story of Wichita State University's 1984-85 men's basketball season is the story of three seniors with vastly different styles, on the court and off, but a common goal - to play in the NCAA tournament. And when money time rolled around and the only path to the NCAA was through Tulsa, the seniors rose to the occasion and carried the Shockers to the Missouri Valley Conference championship. After losing six of their first nine games early in the season, the Shockers were look- ing for respectability, not an NCAA berth. But as 1984 dawned, the rag-tag collection became a unit, and a seven-game winning streak put WSU two games up in the con- ference race. But, as if on cue for a WSU team, adversi- ty struck. Consecutive losses to Tulsa, Creighton and Illinois State dropped WSU from a comfortable lead to a fight for third place. A heartbreaking loss at Tulsa cost them the regular-season championship, and their 12 regular-season losses left only one avenue to the NCAA, through Tulsa in the Valley tournament. As their 12-point lead evaporated in the final two minutes, the choking could be heard throughout the Valley. But as Steve Harris ffitting, isn't it?l missed a last-second jumper, the seniors got their wish. Xavier McDaniel was the superstar, accomplishing what no other college player in NCAA history has ever done, leading the nation in both scoring and rebounding in the same year. Without a true center to rely on, McDaniel took up the slack in rebounding, averaging 14.8 boards a game, his second rebounding title in three years. With inconsistency, foul problems and freshmen mistakes from the rest of the front line, X picked up the slack in scoring, averaging 27.2 per game despite being hounded by double- and triple- team defenses most of the year. For his efforts, McDaniel was chosen as a consensus All-American, making the first team of both the Associated Press and the United States Basketball Writers Associa- tion. But almost as gratifying as those honors was the frustration at being shuned by the National Association of Basketball Coaches fthird teaml and The Sporting News fhonorable mentionl. How, WSU fans ask- ed, could these groups ignore such im- pressive statistics? Critics felt McDaniel's stats were bloated from MVC competition. If he played in the Big East or Atlantic Coast or Big Ten con- ferences, they argue, his numbers would come down. That is probably correct, but McDaniel averaged 26.8 points and 14 re- bounds in his nine meetings against teams which made the NCAA tournament. All arguments aside, WSU fans will not soon forget McDaniel's talents - the soft turnaround jumper, the powerful jam and the uncanny rebounding ability, flailing his razor-sharp elbows at anyone foolish enough to challenge him. Most of all, to those who Kenn saw him often, McDaniel's most impressive attribute was his jumping ability. Not only could he jump high and remain in the air longer than a human being should be able, but his quickness in getting off the ground gave him a big edge on the boards. He didnit seem to need to coil before jum- ping, he was in the air in an instant, the jet- packs in his sneakers reacting instinctively. And despite any sense of frustration Shocker fans may feel at him not earning the national recognition of Patrick Ewing, Keith Lee or Chris Mullin, the NBA scouts noticed the X-Man, and he will enter a much higher tax bracket in the fall of '85. Aubrey Sherrod was a more heralded freshman than McDaniel when the two came to WSU in 1981. A silky-smooth shooter, Sherrod was basically a streak- shooter in his first two years. He would go on tremendous binges, hitting nothing but net on his 18-25 footers. On the other hand .... ' As a senior, however, Sherrod played with an intensity not seen before in his game. He shot more than 51 percent from the field and averaged 18.5 points a game - more than 20 a game in conference play. Sherrod's out- side bombing unclogged the middle for McDaniel, and his playmaking ability increased dramatically, especially on the fast break, where he was unselfish and took greatjoy in developing slick no-look, behind- the-back, stutter-step, no-sweat assists. Sherrod's defense also improved. No longer did he seem tired or a step out of position, and his quick hands created problems for the other shooting guards in the conference. Karl Papke has been the enigma of the WSU basketball squad. He was the sole survivor of WSU's magical trip to the Final Eight in 1981, where Murphy . S x K Hl1'gg5!,f 'Q Q1 X- Q? , X -ww F fx 5 3' f ' .Q Q: Q 5 . S if iw ' -. f- f 'S A Sth!! I if. yin .:- Ami i 5- if 1 X Shockers Bow Out In East Regional Ajumper, Shooter, And Enigma Lead Team he was eaten alive by Louisiana State's Howard Carter. He was out for a year with injuries, then made a comeback and was projected as a starting forward in 1983. He started that year hitting two of ZZ shots, was benched, broke his ankle, apparently out for the year again. But wait, he returns as a point guard, beats Tulsa and helps the Shockers reach the NIT. In 1984, he seemed to disappear again. With two children and a heavy classload, it seemed Karl Papke's days at WSU were over. But wait, back he came as a for- ward, a shooting guard, a center. Move over, Earvin johnson, the White Magic has arrived. Okay, okay, maybe not, but Papke smelled another NCAA berth. His only four double-digit scoring games came in the last seven games of the year, in- cluding a 12-point, nine-rebound game against Tulsa in the MVC finals, hitting three rainbowjumpers which were crucial in a game in which Sherrod was not shooting well. These three seniors not only led the Shockers, they were the Shockers during the money games at the end of the year. In the regular-season finale at Tulsa, they scored 56 of WSU's 66 points, and in the Shockers' 67-59 East Regional loss to Georgia, they combined for 50 points. Earlier in the season, the underclassmen made their pressence felt. Henry Carr, out of place at center, was a major offensive force in WSU's seven-game winning streak. But foul problems virtually eliminated him at tourney time. The insertion of Mike Arline at point guard helped break WSU out of their early- season slump. Playing aggressive defense, he helped snap the team out of its doldrums, and he had a career-high 12 points in the Valley title game. But his free throw shooting was embarrassing and Shocker fans would have offered him money to keep his hands off the ball in the final minute of a close game. Gus Santos's back injury was the key to the three-game MVC losing streak late in the year, and the loss of his consistency was devastating to an already thin line-up. Cedric Coleman filled in admirably for a 6-Z freshman playing forward, and he will be a major contributor in the future. Elsewhere, it was adversity as normal for WSU. Ho-hum, a couple more academic ineligibilities. Yawn, a pair of dismissals from the team for mysterious reasons. Snore, season-ending injuries to a 7-footer Uohn Askewj, a starting for- ward QSantosJ and a perennial bench- warmer 1Gary Cundiffj. But, hey, Tom Kosich was healthy all year. Story by Kirk Garrett an , f 4' If X Madeline McCullough R fs-an-aww -ew Madeline Nicllullough CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The X Man on the slam. McDaniel accomplished what no other col- legiate player has ever done in a single season - leading the nation in both scoring and rebounding. 12!29!84 Sherrod exploded in the second half of his senior season, scoring 20.1 points a game in Valley play. Sher- rod peaked in the playoffs to relieve the pressure inside on McDaniel. 3!7f85 Carr's mobility and long reach helped make up for his lack of height in the pivot. But his habit of slapping at the ball earned him a bad reputation with MVC referees. 3!S!85 The eonsumate shooter, Sherrod also led WSU in assists, and developed a beautiful rhythm with fellow seniors Karl Papke and McDaniel on the break. 3f5!85 X puts Arline in his place to Carr's amusement. Fortunately, the Shockers had a lot to smile about at toumament time. 2f23!85 WSU Loses In Close Match With KU The seventh meeting between the Shockers and the Jayhawks was on neutral territory. Even though the University of Kansas was ranked 1Zth in the nation while Wichita State University was struggling to get its season going, this small detail helped stir WSU fans' confidence. 'The last time we played them where it wasn't a home game was in New Orleans,' said Henry Richert, Wand we know what went on there. Probably everyone in Kemper Arena that night remembered WSU's heart-stopping 66-65 victory over KU in March of 1981. KU fans were hoping that a win, coupled with last year's 79-69 victory over WSU, would put that memory to rest at last. 'I feel we can win,' said KU grad julie Gar- rett. We had to let them win that once to keep it interesting, that's all. There were few students who made the trip to Kansas City, Mo., that night for The Wheatland Shoot-out. Downstairs below the arena in the Kemper Restaurant and Lounge, both the KU and WSU alumni associations hosted crowded pregame par- ties. One of the advantages of the game being held in Missouri was that beer could be serv- ed at concession stands. Bill, who was Porters' Personnel number Z7 and helped people find their seats, was surprised to learn that beer was not sold at home basketball games but added that he doubted there would be any problems. 'This crowd is more middle and upward middle class,' Bill said. 'You get a more diversified crowd like at a Kings' game and the rowdiness can vary. But these people are dressed well, look nice - they are establish- ed But that didn't mean the crowd would sedately look on during the game. When the players were announced, there were loud cheers. However, when KU's Greg Dreil- ing's name was announced - thought by many at WSU to be the greatest betrayer since judas lscariot - the swarm of yellow and black in the stands, almost by tradition, delivered a sustained boo. Shocker senti- ment seemed to be summed up in the but- ton worn by several fans that read, 'FU KU.' Kansas won the tip-off, but it was the Shockers who scored first on a turnaround jumper by Henry Carr. The Jayhawks quick- ly tied the score and then began building a lead. KU built up a 10-Z lead and WSU moved to its full-court press. The strategy worked as WSU moved out in front with seven minutes left in the half, holding onto a 42-40 lead at halftime. We're doing better than I ever dreamed we'd do, said one elated WSU fan. They're playing like a bunch of freshmen instead of being nationally ranked, Garrett said, 'like they can't beat WSU too easily. They need to realize WSU is a threat.' In the second half, KU began playing as if they were nationally ranked, regaining the lead and controlling the pace of the game. WSU, which couldn't maintain its full-court press and scoring drive, fell behind and was kept from striking range. With 12:05 left in the half, frustrations became evident when a scuff1e occurred, sending KU head coach Larry Brown out on the COUII. WSU head coach Gene Smithson also took to the floor but was much calmer and seemed more intent on cooling tempers. However, both coaches were assessed a technical foul and the ball went to KU. With six minutes to play, Henry Richert, dressed in a light yellow sweater with a gold and black tie, kept on cheering the team em- phatically but was realizing WSU would lose. Well, I'm not doing too good, Richert said. We played a good game, though. I'll admit they've got a good team but we've got a pretty good one, too. I think it's bound to hurt their ranking with how well we've done - not muchf' Other fans were more aggressively despondent. Standing in the front of the KU section was Mike Miller, '69 grad from WSU, quietly smoking a cigarette and drink- ing his 32-ounce beer. I guess I take competition a little more seriously. I take it personally. I'm not one of those typicals, like those assholes down there,' Miller said, waving his hand at the WSU section. 'They only go to basketball games - a fashion show. I go to football games, baseball, volleyball, all of 'em. Hell, half of 'em didn't even graduate. He turned to glare at the KU crowd. I've already flipped 'em off four times. They come down here. We will lose the basketball game but I won't lose this fight. Now, we've got a real battle going on: whether we lose by 10 or by IZ. WSU ended up losing by seven points, 90-83. Dreiling, who was booed everytime he entered or left the game, grabbed the final rebound. As people were filing out of Kemper, a small crowd of KU supporters, to the tune of the cheer, 'Here we go, Shockers,' sang their own version: What's the score, Shockers? What's the score?' Story by Peter Ingmire f if F C. ' ,Q ng 2 l few 72 1 T 9' 436 ,eq X, 4 4,?A , sf . Q I if in ,1 f, , f Q . Kim ffflffl 44 1' SMT! x QV 'E ff xg we ff, 4 QF I I 5 3 4 RITE til: N25 E .ZZ PORTRAIT The Quiet Leader Finds New Voice In Final Season In 1981, Wichita State University was put- ting together one of the strongest basketball squads in the school's history. The team was nationally ranked, largely the result of the previous year's performance and strong recruiting. Aubrey Sherrod, a Wichita Heights High School graduate, was one of the top high school recruits in the nation. He chose WSU because of its program and his family. 'I wanted to stay close to home with my family, Sherrod said. 'We had a dominant team at the time I was being recruited. Why go somewhere else when you could play in front of your home crowd and have one of the top teams in the nation, which we did have at the time? During his freshman year, Wichita State was put on probation, effectively ending all chances for an NCAA appearance. So, for the next three years, Sherrod, as well as the rest of the team, had to contend with the fact that they had the talent to compete against almost any team in the nation but nowhere to prove it. Sherrod stayed at WSU although con- ceivably he could have gone to another school. So he settled into the starting guard position and, along with Tony Martin, tried to maintain an outside scoring attack, thereby taking some of the pressure off for- wards Antoine Carr and Cliff Levingston, around whom the offense was based. As a freshman he felt the pressure to per- form well because of the publicity he had received as a high school player. 'Coming into college my first year I did have a lot of pressure on me,' he said. 'But I always said the only pressure you have is the pressure you put on yourself. 'I knew a lot of people were expecting a lot out of me coming out of high school because I was one of the top high school players in the nation. I knew I had pressure on me to perform but not to the point where I was the man. After his first year, Sherrod made Al McGuire's NBC all-Rookie Team and was chosen for the U.S. Select Team which traveled overseas during the summer playing other national squads. His second year, he made the U.S. Select Team again and the all-Missouri Valley Con- ference second team. In his third year, he had a slow start and questions were raised about his consistency as a player, although he made the all-MVC second team again. Sherrod said during the past off-season he worked on being more consistent because he knew his senior year would require more of him both as a player and as a person. 'I know I'm a senior this year and I have more responsibility as a leader,' he said. 'It takes time. That comes with maturity where you got to wait your turn. I've been hanging in there and I think this is the year for me. Both on and off the court, Sherrod comes across as the quiet one on the team. He said his role is a new experience for him because he has to talk and help guide the other players verbally. 'I usually lead by example, he said, 'not saying that much. This is really a new ex- perience for me as far as talking. I'm real shy. 'Thatis how I've always been - in high school, in junior high. It never changed. I just got older and stayed the same. He said he sees himself as, Nice, easy to get along with, once you get to know me. Wild and crazy, once you get to know me. If it's a female, it takes a while. A male, it won't take too long.' When he does go out, he will occasionally be recognized, which he said doesn't embar- rass him. 'It's fun but sometimes you get tired of it. You might be at a game or something and want to enjoy what you're doing and somebody might want an autograph. But it goes with the business. If you play basketball and you're good, you're going to get reward- ed and people are going to recognize you. That's the things you have to put up with.' Sherrod was coached in high school by Charles Doughty, who became Sherrod's surrogate guardian. 'My father is deceased. He died when I was two years old. I always considered coach Doughty as my father, he's done a lot for me. I would have to give all the credit to him for preparing me for college, and getting me on this level.' The relationship Sherrod has with WSU head coach Gene Smithson, however, has been more professional. 'When you get on the college level it's more likea business, where you don't really have that relationship with your college coach as you do with your high school coach because your college coach is in there for the money. Aside from the struggle to balance being a player with being a student - If we're losing it's definitely quiet. That's the best time when you really want to study - Sherrod said he's enjoyed his career at WSU. He hopes to play professionally but said he can also go into business once he gets his degree. Having come into a nationally ranked pro- gram but never having played in an NCAA tournament, Sherrod said he sometimes wonders where he would be if he had chosen another school. 'It hurts sometimes. I go back and look at it and say, 'If I had the chance to do it all over again, what would I do?' But I don't know. I've been here for four years, had a good time. Hope it pays off. Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough Football 1984 Shockers Flounder In Rebuilding Year Ron Chismar is not reminiscent about his first year as Wichita State University head football coach. Do we have to talk about that? It's not my favorite subject,' he said. Chismar's dry sense of humor helped him through what he admitted was his most dif- ficult year as a coach. After guiding the of- fense of a successful Arizona State Universi- ty program, he came to WSU, totally restructured the offense, and suffered through a 2-9 season. . 'I knew this would be a tough situation, he said. 'I thought it would be a challenge, an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a new president, a new athletic direc- tor. I thought there was an opportunity for success here because of their commitment. Chismar still feels he can have a successful program once he has a chance to recruit players to fit his system. Former coach Jeff Jeffries employed a dive-option offense, suited for quick, small, cat-like backs such as Prince McJunkins and Eric Denson. The staple play in Jeffries' attack was the triple option, which helped the Shockers over- come many size and talent advantages possessed by WSU's more stable opponents. Jeffries found success with his system in 1982, recording an 8-3 mark behind Mc- Junkins. But the graduation of McJunkins and the failure of the defense in 1983 spelled the end for Jeffries and led to the arrival of Chismar. Schooled under Darryl Rogers at Michigan State and Arizona State, Chismar took Jeffries' dive-option players and employed a pro-style attack, the opposite end of the offensive spectrum. 'It gets to be a problem any time you switch - it takes time to adjust, Chismar said. Now, the receivers adjusted in about 10 seconds, they were thrilled. Instead of play-action and blocking, they get to run real routes. It doesn't mean they'll always run the correct route, but it doesn't take much to convince a receiver to accept a passing of- fense where he doesn't have to block three out of four playsf' The backs also enjoyed the more wide- open attack - but the Shocker offensive linemen went through culture shock. 'They had a real tough time, Chismar said. Veer foptionl football is track football, it's the same all the time. You basically put people on the track and let them go. Ours is much, much different - different schemes, different patterns. And once we learned the physical aspect, we had to deal with the mental aspect. 'Yes, I know who to block, but can I do it?' That's a tough one.' To compound the problem, the Shockers endured an endless string of injuries, knock- ing out most of the starting linemen in spring training and dissolving to the point that four of the five starting linemen at the end of the season were not even on the spring roster. The players were struggling for survival,' Chismar said. 'When the personnel is so thin, it gets to be a ridiculous situation. You end up wearing out the few players that are healthy. And when players are hurt and tired they don't do well, they forget the learning process. One of the few bright spots Chismar found in the season was quarterback Brian McDonald. Recruited by Jeffries to replace McJunkins in the option attack, McDonald got a chance to show off his powerful arm in the pro-style offense. But he spent much of his time trying to evade the flow of incoming defensive linemen through the porous offen- sive front. 'His task was probably the most difficult of all,' Chismar said. 'He had the greatest lear- ning situation. McDonald and Chismar came to share the same feel for the game by the end of the year, so that McDonald's audibles were almost always in line with the coach's philosophy. 'He sees what I see. Sometimes it doesn't work, but we're on the same wavelength, Chismar said. 'This year, fMcDonald'sJ frustration was my frustration. In the last few games he could have said, 'Aw, to heck with it.' and given up, but he didn't. He played hurt and we had to drag him out of the last game with his shoulder injury.' Though his statistics were not impressive, McDonald showed a knack for the pro-style game when he had the time to throw. In an opening loss to Southwest Texas State, McDonald threw for more than 300 yards and three touchdowns, leading a fourth- quarter rally that fell seven points short. He engineered rallies against Texas- Arlington and New Mexico State, only to run out of time and defensive help. In the next to the last game of the year, however, he finally spurred a winning rally against West Texas State. Down 14-7 after three quarters, Wichita State was staring at its ninth loss in 10 games. But McDonald led two fourth- quarter drives, culminated by a 25-yard scor- ing pass to Albert Hundley with just 45 seconds remaining, to pull out a 17-14 win. But turnovers, sacks and poor field posi- tion haunted McDonald throughout the season. McDonald was sacked at least four CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Shocker offense await instruc- tions from the sideline during the loss to Southwest Texas State while the inflatable WuShock offers en- couragement. 9!1!84 Offensive front lineman Mr. Love, 83, fends off WSU's Chris Louder- milk, 95, and Mitchell Morris, 91, during the Shockers' home game victory over West Texas State. l1!10!84 WSU's Nathanial Hayes, 93, sacks KU quarterback Mike Norseth, 7. 9!8!84 Sophomore fullback Kevin Rucker, 44, rolls through the middle during WSU's victory against West Texas State. 11!10!84 Come on, mutha-fuckers! yells Kevin Pierce, 89, in the third quarter during WSU's loss to KU. 9!8!84 Y 1 New Coach Tries Pro-Style Attack times in seven different games, including a seven-sack, 31-3 loss at Southwestern Lou- siana in Baton Rouge, La. Another player who felt the frustration was Denson, considered by many publications in the pre-season to be one of the finest runn- ing backs in the country. Denson was the star of Jeffries' option offense, rushing for 988 and 1,017 yards in his first two years, the top two yardage marks in WSU history. Without a solid line or the opportunity to carry the ball 20-25 times a game, Denson disappeared early in the year. Although he did turn in back-to-back 100-yard games midway through the season, he rushed for just 473 yards before missing the final two games with injuries. There were problems on the other side of the line of scrimmage, as well. Chismar was quite candid about the defense, admitting, 'We were not a good defensive team at all, although he said that was not because of a lack of effort. The Shockers gave up more than 30 points in each of their first five games, and, incredibly, they allowed all 11 of their op- ponents to rush for more than 200 yards. Teams were able to use the running game to build a big lead early, forcing WSU to aban- don Denson and the running game and allowing opposing defenses to tee off on McDonald. Though the 1984 season was one he'd like to forget, Chismar still feels the program will find success. 'No one ever gave me a rose-colored view of the situation here, he said. I heard a lot of disturbing things, and the scary part is that everything they said was true. 'But we've got a bunch of kids busting their butts to get the job done. If you really get frustrated, which I have, you lose sight of your goals. Two-and-nine might be as good as we are, we might not be any better than that. But we're going to come back and fight to get better, l'm certain of thatf' Story by Kirk Garrett 1 I WX? CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Eric Denson, 23, scrambles for a short drive during the KU game. 918184 Failing to elude the KU front line, Eric Denson, 23, is trapped behind the scrimmage line. 918184 Quarterback Brian McDonald, 4, lofts a short pass. 918184 Head coach Ron Chismar confers with Kevin Pierce, 89, during the West Texas State game. 11110184 Jayhawks Warm Up n Shockers The mood was cautious but optimistic. Before the game, neither Wichita State University fans nor the University of Kansas fans were voicing much confidence. In the two previous meetings between the state rivals, WSU won the first outing 13-10, but was decimated in the second meeting 57-6. In 1982, WSU was loud, brassy and cocky - with good reason - while KU was subdued. Last year, the opposite was true. In 1984, both WSU and KU were having to rebuild their teams and neither was on a par- ticular hot streak. The day before the game, the Jayhawks lost six players, including several defensive starters, who were declared academically in- eligible. Their quarterback was from a com- munity college and had not played on a ma- jor college level. WSU had lost its season opener to little Southwest Texas State 38-31, and were testing a new offensive system under first- year head coach Ron Chismar. Gary Mc- Collar, 1980 WSU graduate, said he thought the Shockers had already developed a work- ing offense but needed to build the defense. McCollar, like most of the other WSU fans, was in Lawrence seeking revenge. 'I was up here last year and watched us get stomped, he said. 'So I had to come back this year to see if we can't do better. H.C. Cummings, class of 1939, was a veritable billboard of KU booster material. He wore a Jayhawk button on his shirt, car- ried a pennant, and on his cowboy hat, he wore a Jayhawk stickpin. He said he has attended most of the games over the years. 'We weren't very nice to WSU last year, he admitted, 'but then they weren't very nice to us two years ago. KU fans seldom have much to cheer about, so last year was great. 'I shouldn't say this, but I con- sider Wichita a team to warm up on,' Cummings said. 'I hope for Wichita's sake they're a little better team this year.' Wichita State fans had the same hope. Trisha Haderlein, graduate student and the feature twirler for the WSU Shocker Mar- ching Band, said last year's game was a long one, but she was hoping for the difference a year makes. 'I think we've got a good chance for this year,' Haderlein said. 'We've got a new coach, a new image. I want us to win by a lot, and to play a good game. Not to have them play a bad one, but us to play better. KU's fans don't look too confident. Whether it was a lack of confidence or simply indifference, there were not many KU students in the stands. Charity Young, a freshman, said classes had just started and people were still getting settled. 'I just got free tickets because my boyfriends a football player and he has season ticketsf' The game was getting underway and KU was beginning its romp. First KU posses- sion: 7-0. Second KU possession: 14-0. Young watched the game without much enthusiasm. When asked when she might get excited about the game she replied, 'I don't know. Oh, maybe my junior year when it means something, but not yet. Third KU possession: 17-0. With the Jayhawks taking a breather, the long first- half stalemate began. Dave Rose graduated from WSU in 1980 but now attends graduate school at KU. He said he is razzed by his fellow students - they call him the Student from the School of Perpetual Probation - because of his loyalty to WSU. The Shockers were still down 17-0, but Rose predicted WSU was 'coming back. 'What gripes me is KU has had the home field advantage for three straight years,' Rose said. 'We've come up every year. It should be more equal. But I suppose it's a privilege just to be able to play them. Up on Campanille Hill overlooking the stadium, about 1,500 people sat around hav- ing small barbecues and beer parties. Suzie Peterson, a KU sophomore, said she was outside because the stadium was 'hotter 'n hell and I don't like dealing with 50,000 peo- ple. But the game is kick-ass.' Midway through the third quarter, WSU closed the margin to 17-7, but WSU fans started to confront reality. 'We're lucky to be within 10 points,' said Doug Cranmer, 1983 grad. 'The defense has played pretty good since the first quarter. We still can pull it off, even going into the fourth quarter behind 10 pointsf' Cranmer attended the game in 1983. 'I went to that debacle and sat here till the last play. I had KU friends who had to rub my nose in it. 'If we lose - well, I never want to see that - but if we stay within the chance of vic- tory, that's okay,' he said. 'Unless the team collapses, we can be respected, at least. Robert Mimbs, KU's tailback, dashed WSU's hopes of respectability with two touchdowns in the next 10 minutes. With six minutes left in the game, fans started leaving en masse. KU's reserves mopped up the remaining minutes of the less-than-thrilling 31-7 victory. Tim Zogelman, WSU fan and sometimes student, left the stadium feeling dejected. 'I've been through worse,' he said. 'I wanted us to score once more. But I think we've improved. They're half as bad as last year. Still bad, though. Story by Kirk Garrett and Peter Ingmire Don Shreve: CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Todd, left, shares a beer with drink- ing buddy Amber, right, at Hawk's Crossing after the game. Amber once downed 14 glasses of beer in one standing. 9!8!84 Mark Royster, 26, shows the frustration with the game during the third quarter. 9!8!84 Tailback Eric Denson, 23, runs into KU defender Rick Bredesen, 25, on short-yardage play. 9!8!84 Defender Robert Johnson, 31, dives high overhead to halt a KU option play. 9!8!84 KU tailback Robert Mimbs, 27, is dragged down by the front line of the Shocker defense. Mimbs rushed for 155 yards on the day. 9!8!84 PORTRAIT Surviving For A Dream Helps Grid Star Find His Self-Worth Ever since he was in high school, Randy Jackson knew he would one day play profes- sional football. In 1972, after his last year of eligibility at Wichita State University, he was drafted and spent the next three years with three football teams: the Buffalo Bills, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Philadelphia Eagles. .Then he quit. jackson said that when he was finally in the pros, he realized that he wasn't actually playing professional football, in spite of the fact that he felt he was as good as the other players who were getting play- ing time. 'I expected it to be a little tougher than it was, jackson said. 'I guess sometimes you come to the realization that things aren't the way they seem at the time. 'What I'm saying is that I thought when you come to a different level that it would be a little tougher,' he said. 'And in most cases it wasn't as tough as I thought it would be.' He said he was surprised that workouts were not more rigorous than college. Know- ing he could handle the demands being plac- ed upon him, he felt frustrated by the politics involved in the game. 'It's the buddy-buddy system in the pros, he said. 'If you get in the situation where the coaches know you, you have more of a chance of making it. It's hard to break in when they have their positions set. And that's what happened to me. 'I had it out with one of the coaches one time and told him my point of view. You have to express yourself that you feel you're as good or better than players ahead of you and you can prove it.' Jackson knew he would not play football forever and kept telling himself of his own self-worth. During the off-seasons, he would return to WSU. In 1975 he received his teaching certificate. jackson came to WSU in 1967 from Booker T. Washington High School, an all- black school in Atlanta, Texas. Texas' desegregation acts would have allowed him to go to Atlanta High, a predominantly white school, but he would have had to petition to go there, something whites did not have to do. Had he gone to Atlanta High, jackson felt he would have had better opportunities for an education and for press coverage, which is what draws college scouts. His high school, which he said had excellent football teams, was often ignored. 'I think the reason fthe statej gave a choice was because they knew in those days everybody would choose to go back to their own school,' he said. 'So it was still the same situation. 'We would get all hand-me-downs. I was in the band for a couple of years, our colors were blue and gold. Atlanta's uniforms were maroon and we had to wear them because we didn't get anything. We would get what they didn't want or use. Being from a black school, you were getting cheated, simple as that. He came to WSU on scholarship with the encouragement of a Shocker coach whom jackson knew. He didn't see much action until his junior year. By then he had decided he wanted to be involved with athletics as a career, a switch from his original plan of in- terior decorating. 'I like to see nice things and I like to try to design certain things. Then my mind chang- ed.' On Oct. 2, 1970, the plane bringing half the football team home from a game in Col- orado crashed. Thirty people were killed: jackson survived. At the time, he was rated one of the best backs in the country. He returned the next year to play out his last year. 'I could have taken the opportunity to say, 'Hey, give up.' But I'm not that type of in- dividual. I felt healthy and capable of play- ing. And I think I owed it to the rest who did not make it to play. I felt I would be doing them a disservice not to play. 'The only thing I hated about it was that I'd have to fly and I knew I could get over that. You don't want anyone to talk to you. You want to sit back and listen to see if anything will go wrong. When I fly now it's the same thingf' jackson felt the planes were not flight- ready although a subsequent investigation following the crash showed no culpability on the university's part. jackson said the year prior to the crash, he and another player, Kenny Lee, would tell each other they would survive if there was plane trouble. He said they could see the engines of the plane get red hot. The survivors received some money through a settlement with WSU and a pro- mise their college costs would be payed for, a promise jackson said was not kept. He felt then-president Clark Ahlberg lived up to his word but others did not, particularly H.R. Reidenbaugh, who helped in the financial ar- rangements. 'He told me, 'Why should we take care of you guys when you are suing us? jackson said. 'That's what he told me. I told him, 'I didn't have anything to do with the plane.' jackson said he ended up paying for his living expenses at Varsity Manor while he finished getting his degree. He still seems to hold some bitterness. 'We almost gave our life for the university and the state didn't treat us as well as they should have. jackson now teaches gym at a junior high, a job which he said he enjoys but is not paid enough for. Other than having patience a lit- tle earlier in life, he said there are not many changes he would make with his life. 'I feel very lucky, very fortunate to be here. A lot of people are not. I have pro- blems like anyone else, but nothing that deeply bothers me. My wife and little girl, I feel like they are an inspiration to me to en- joy life even more.' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough Swimmers, Coach Dive Into New Year At their meet against the University of Nebraska- Omaha, some of the members of the Wichita State University swim club had to ask their coach how to use the starting blocks. 'It was really strange,' said Mike Miller, director of aquatic operations and the club's adviser. 'A lot of our swimmers haven't had competitive experience before, ex- plained Greg Stockton, the club's coach. That, and the fact that the Heskett Center doesn't have starting blocks, ex- plained why some of the team were unsure how to use them. This is only the team's second year. The meet against Nebraska was its Hrst. 'We held our own,' Mike Cigelman, sport club direc- tor for WSU, said. 'They won, but we did not finish very far behind. Last year, the club was loosely organized. There was no coach and no meets were scheduled, so the team did not have much motivation to practice. This year, however, they have a coach, one meet under their belts, and the promise of more meets in the future. 'I-Iopefully, we'll be able to compete against schools in the area,' Miller said. 'But we discovered that Kansas schools, with the exception of the University of Kansas, do not have teamsf' So, they are looking at schools in the sur- rounding states with which to compete. One problem they are having is that most of the swim clubs make up their swim meet schedule the year before. 'The one thing we've got going for us right now is that we're willing to travel, Miller said. 'We plan to have at least four meets this year. Next year we hope to host some meets here.' The difficulty in hosting meets at the Heskett Center is the lack of starting blocks, because the club can't host meets without them. 'We need them desperately, Cigelman said. The blocks cost anywhere from S600 to S700 each, and, due to budget cuts, the Heskett Center has not been able to afford them. The swim club is hoping to get fun- ding from the state, or a private donation, in order to provide itself with blocks. The other major concern with the swim club is lack of members. The club has 17 people on the team - 10 men and seven women. Ideally, the team would like 40 good swimmers. More people are expected to join once the club participates in more meets and becomes more established. 'just having that one meet helped a lot, Miller said. 'Once we've established regular meets to go to, there won't be any doubt. People join things when they know that there's some activity that they're going to partake in.' Miller is very confident about the future of the swim club. 'There's every possibility that five years down the road we could become a varsity team and offer scholarships, he said. 'That depends on the coaches that we have, the number of people we're able to recruit, the caliber of swimmer we're able to recruit, and whether they feel as though they want to prove themselvesf' If they did become a varsity team, Stockton commented, 'It would also give the swimmers just coming out of high school that weren't recruited by the big swim schools a chance to say, 'You blew it, sucker.' ' People on the swim club have to be a member of the Heskett Center - and know certain basics. 'As long as they know how to swim, Greg can improve their strokes and teach them competitive techniques, and then we go from there, Cigelman said. 'As long as they're willing to work and train, you know, we'll take anyone - that can .rwimf The present members of the club are a diverse group. They range from Betty Chris- tian, a 61-year-old master diver who is in the top 10 nationally in her age group for her events, to the fatherfson team of Roland and Garth Simmons, to George Androutsellis, a Greek water polo player, to Stephanie Philip, a triathlete who competed in the Iron Man competition in Hawaii. 'They work real well as a team,' Stockton said. 'Our major weakness is lack of people. He cited the Nebraska meet, where the club had to forfeit some points because there was no one to enter in some events. 'Our school here has plenty of good swim- mers, Stockton added, 'but it's getting them to take the time to come and swim - that and starting blocks. Story by Ty Morgan CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Shirley Browne works on her freestyle during practice. 1217184 Garth Simmons demonstrates his sucker- fish imitation on the natatorium's viewing porthole. 1217184 Michelle Leone comes up for air in the but- terfly. 1217184 Jeff Barber and Garth Simmons watch teammates George Androutsellis, Eddie Duncan, and Roland Simmons practice racing dives without starting blocks. 12110184 W Q r - 'Ct Y , . r1s'q-151.24333 5 photos by Kcnn Murphy PORTRAIT Soaking Up American Culture, Swimmer Longs For Grecian Shores George Androutsellis gets tired of spelling his last name. Once when a photographer took his picture for the Suf1f7ower, he only gave half his name and it appeared as 'George Androu. When the photographer came around another time, he tried it again but that time was caught. 'They had some events here in the winter for the swim club,' he said, 'and she asked my last name and I gave her half my last name. Everybody started saying 'No, that's not your real namel' So I had to reveal my real name.' His friends have resolved the problem with his name, however. 'Everybody knows my name is big and hard, he said, 'so they just call me George. Androutsellis, a junior in mechanical engineering, is also a member of the swim club. At the club's meet against the Universi- ty of Nebraska-Omaha, his coach told him the only rule was to get a good night's sleep before the meet the next day. But the hotel he stayed in had nice balconies, he said. And he and his team- mates were on the second floor. So, he and a few of his teammates dropped off the balconies and snuck into a female team- mate's room to watch MTV. He didn't do too badly at the meet: he took first in the 500 yards, and third in the 1,000 yards. Androutsellis learned to swim in the Mediterranean Sea. His hometown, Patra, Greece, is on the coast, and he lives only Z0 meters from the sea. 'My father taught me how to swim.' He started swimming competitively only last year. Before that he played water polo. In fact,-playing water polo is how he came to join the team. 'Last year, he explained, 'I was playing water polo with my friends. . .and one of the guards asked me if I wanted to join the swim club. So, I came down and I saw how the workouts were, and I decided to join.' 'Yeah, jeff Barber, a teammate, added, 'and then she quit and he didn't know what to do.' Despite the rampant teasing that goes on among the members of the swim club, they are a close-knit group, he said. For example, Androutsellis said that he is not lonely dur- ing the holidays. 'The swim team is here, that's all I need.' Since he knows it will be a while before he graduates, he tries not to let being separated from his family bother him. 'Three more years. You just have to live with it. I'm used to it. After he graduates, he plans to return to Patra. 'My friends are there, my relatives. Everything is there. While he's in the United States, he said he wants to explore American culture. 'I don't like speaking too much Greek here,' Androutsellis said. 'I want to learn the English language better and meet the culture better. l'll have time to speak Greek and do everything in Greek after I graduate. 'Mostly I try to hang around with the guys from the swim cIub,' he said. 'I'm always around my roommate and probably two or three more Greeks. I prefer to be around Americans. 'My favorite T.V. show is 'Let's Make A Deal.' No, I'm kidding, it's really 'Hill Street Bluesf ' He likes to windsurf, too, but he doesn't windsurf in Kansas 'because it's cold and the water's dirty. I prefer the water to be blue.' It will take Androutsellis three more years of school because he has to get his bachelor's and his master's before moving back to Greece. 'It's stupid,' he said. 'You can't work in Greece if you're from a foreign university without a master's degree. They don't think foreign universities are any good. 'My dad is an engineer, too. It's like a tradition. The boy takes the father's job. I was raised with the idea of being a mechanical engineer. When I was little, I wanted to be a fireman - or a soldier. But I always knew it was just a fantasy. Although he said mechanical engineering classes are hard, he doesn't find practicing with the swim club every day a hardship. 'I guess everybody has about two or three hours free every day to do something. So in- stead of wasting time, I come here every day and swim. 'I don't think it's too big a problem,' he said. 'I'm not taking too many hoursg I'm just going slowly, trying to get good grades. 'I'm not the type of person who studies all the time. You know, wakes up, studies, takes a break, goes to class and then later on back to studying. 'I like to do everything, study a little bit. Actually, I'd rather be lying on the beach in Greece getting a suntan than studying. Story by Ty Morgan Photo by Madeline McCullough Crew Continues Row For Varsity Status When Charlie Thomas was a freshman at Wichita State University, a friend asked him to come to a crew practice. 'It was 30 degrees outside and I hated it,' Thomas said. 'But a week later I went back and was hooked. Thomas is now the coach for the WSU crew team. Begun in 1974, crew has surviv- ed severe financial difficulties and a constant shifting of coaches. In fact, at the end of the 1984 spring semester, there were only four men and four women left on the team. But even with such a small crew, the men's team was undefeated. The crew team was inaugurated when two lawyers, Tom Kitch and Rob Wilkins, established the Wichita Rowing Association. They crewed at eastern colleges and wanted to bring rowing to Wichita. Kitch and Wilkins then negotiated with WSU to create a collegiate team. The WRA paid for the boats, provided the boathouse, the coach's salary and took care of repairs. WSU paid the transportation and lodging when the players traveled to races. But crewing is an expensive sport. A boat alone costs between 87,000 and 38,000 Despite constant money problems, the WRA was able to recruit top flight coaches for short periods of time. Now the situation has stablized. The WRA still owns the boats and provides repairs, but the WSU crew Preparing for crew demands a daily vigorous workout. The men run five miles a day and the women run three miles a day. This is combined with intense weight lifting, rowing and calisthenics. Despite the rigors, crew members need not be young and experienced to excel. The team has one member who is Z9 and a 30-year-old novice rower is planning to join in the spring. 'Crew is a college varsity sport that one can come to as a total novice and have suc- cess in the first year, Thomas explained. And not just beefy guys with massive arms make the best oarsmen. 'Eighty percent of the power comes from the legs - the arms are not that importantf' Thomas explained. 'The harder you push the legs, the more force you have against the water. The most important thing about crew, Thomas continued, is to control the body and get your stroke identical with other oarsmen. Another vital part of the crew team is the coxswain, who calls out strokes and acts as a mini-coach. According to Thomas, the job is three-fold - to make the boat go straight, to help the oarsmen keep proper technique and to motivate their crew. 'They are not athletic in the same sense as rowers, but by their steering they can win the race, Thomas said. 'Sometimes they are so good they can get guys to row till their hands bleed.' Crew was developed in England almost 200 years ago, and although the terminology dates from another era, modern technology has revolutionized the sport. Only in the last five years have the oars been made from graphite, which proved to be a lighter material. The WSU crew team will compete in about 10 regattas this spring, with the team going to the championships - Dad Vail Regatta - in Philadelphia. They also com- pete in the Heart of Texas competition in Austin, Texas. This event is held during spr- ing break and the team practices twice a day. 'Tm in the water for about eight hours a day and by the end of the week I can't talk, Thomas said. Thomas said he hopes to work on the team's form. 'My guys go fast, but they don't look good. But the most difficult part of coaching for Thomas is motivation. 'The hardest part is getting people to be up for practice every day and making people . . .work hard every day,' he said. We've had boats out in Z5-degree weather and had to knock the ice off oars when practice was over. According to oarsman Charlie Disilvestro, a crew member must be psychologically fit to work hard. 'When you row team is administrated by the I-Ieskett Center as a sport club, and the university pays the coach's salary. But Thomas is quick to point out that crew is a varsity sport, not a club. This semester the deman- ding sport has 30 members on the men's and women's teams. 'This is the most strenuous, physically taxing sport there is because it combines the en- durance of a distance runner and the strength of a weight lifter, Thomas said. at full power for a long time, it's the mind, not the muscles that give up. You have to be mentally set for rowing. For coach Thomas, who has a degree in mechanical engineering, rowing also pro- vides personal fulfillment. 'Crew is the only sport in the world I can come close to being the best-in, and that's very exciting,' he said. It's a wonderful feeling to have a boat on keel - it's perfection and symmetry. Story by Kate Wintrol L' v , 'Zag 'lf'-fa i giif-1 gm , p Xl , -f 5 ' 'iw fwqw ,Iwi 1 x .f , Q wg: -v - - . Ag fu f. 'L , ' ' ---17.42 5- '- ff. -' ik- 5- N -- - - - -' Q.. 4 . A - , ... 'Wg 7, I 4 ,,,..x A':qn. 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The stable, nam- ed The Wichita Riding Academy, is located south of Andover and north of Rose I-Iill. Manahan said the majority of WSU students have a limited experience with horses, although a small percent have ridden a lot as well as some who have never been on a horse. Ml want students to be comfortable and understand the horses,' she said. 'A large part of working with horses is understanding them.' The horseman- ship class covers more than just learn- ing the proper way to ride. Students are also taught about grooming, the parts of equipment, the, names of tools and how to use them, and the differences between breeds of horses. 'I try to cover things that make class in- teresting to everybody, Manahan explained. 'I want to give them a basic understanding. 'Horsemanship involves everything - how they function and why, she said. I try to give students a better, well-rounded idea of what is going on.' Manahan begins her classes slowly. First her students learn how to put on a saddle, mount and dismount and how to hold the reins. 'I have them start out walking, getting the feel of the horse and how to sit in the saddle correctly, she explained. But Manahan said she tries to tailor her class to fit each group, because some classes are more athletic than others. At the end of the semester, students must know three gaits: walk, trot and canter. 'If you cue the horses right they will do what you want, but they get confused if you give them the wrong cue, Manahan com- mented. Brenda Calvert, a biology student, said she likes to take something each semester to keep active. This is her third horsemanship class. 'I wanted to take something to do with animals,' she said. This is the only time I get to ride. I'd like to own a horse of my own and now I know some of the things to look for,' Calvert added. But student Susan Postlethwaite has plen- ty of chances to ride - she owns four horses. It's always good to have someone on the ground to tell you what you're doing wrong as far as positioning goes, she explained. Postlethwaite rides dressage and said she enjoyed the class because it re-exposed her to the correct way to ride western style. Even though riding can be a dangerous sport, Manahan said there have been very few injuries at the stables. We have nice horses and take precautions and have a very low rate of accidentsf' she commented. 'In fact, more accidents occur with students who own their own horses because they are more daring and ag- gressivef' Manahan, an ac- c o m p l i s h e d equestrian, said she still learns from teaching. My students teach me a lot, she said. And I enjoy seeing people achieve their goals. Story by Kate Wintrol if-.---T CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Cheryl Manahan, instructor, clips Sugarfoot's whiskers. 12!5!84 Outside the stables, Susan Postlethwaite's horse trots around the riding arena. 11!12!84 Susan Postlethwaite and Sugarfoot move past the stable's entrance at a slow gait. 11!12!84 Eddy Strong saddles his horse in the cross-ties. 11112184 Traveling farrier Bill McDonald, Harrisonville, Mo., pulls his mobile blacksmithing shop into the stables to shoe horses. 1215184 -....... Final Game Could Be Next Year's Hope Basketball Team Ends A Poor Season Entering their final game of the 1984-85 season, Karen Harden's Wichita State University women's basketball team was lim- ping in with its worst record in six years. But during a resounding 74-50 win against Southwest Missouri State University, Harden found a ray of hope and a potential star for next season. I wish the game did reflect the rest of the season, but we saved our best for last, Harden said after WSU snapped a five-game losing streak. 'The last game does make a difference, especially after this kind of season. It would have been devastating to lose six straight. But in the locker room the players were talking about this game being the start of a new streak, a streak to carry us into next year.' In the Shockers' 10-18 season, 6-12 in the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, they scored more than 80 points just twice and never won more than two games in a row. But they finished with their biggest conference win of the year, a bright spot for a team looking for respect within the league. Another bit of momentum the Shockers hope to carry into next year is the emergence of Allison Daniel. With the team's depth virtually eliminated by loss of three major contributors, Daniel was forced to play nearly 40 minutes a game, and responded by averaging more than Z6 points during the final six games of the year. An aggressive, scrappy, 5-8 junior from Pittsburgh, Daniel was the most heralded member of the group of six talented freshmen who came to WSU in 1982. She emerged as a star this season, averaging more than 19 points and five rebounds a game. Daniel peaked after fellow junior jen- ny Parr left the squad with seven games re- maining. 'In those last few games without Parr there was a lot of pressure on Daniel,' Harden said. But she has such keen instinct and an- ticipation. And she plays hard all the time. I mean all the time. Every second, whether she's playing a game or playing in practice. 'Attitude is very important,' Daniel said. I don't have tremendous talent, but I have worked hard, and that's important. I like to yell and clap - I like to get the team pumped up.' But that type of intensity is hard to keep up for 40 minutes every game. 'She had too much court time and fatigue set in,' Harden said. MWe didn't have much choice since we were running out of people to play. She'd played so hard the fatigue started to affect her game, especially her shooting' Shooting was the major downfall of WSU all season, and when a team does not shoot the basketball well for an entire season, records like the Shockers' 10-18 mark are the inevitable result. 'We seemed like we were shooting blind- folded most of the yearf' Harden said, 'that area just killed us. We were running the of- fense we wanted and getting good shot selection, but even our good shooters had poor percentagesf' Harden attributed a good chunk of WSU's 40.1 percent shooting from the floor to a lack of confidence, a trend which started when the Shockers lost three of their first Q gg, . ,.. X E'f i,,,..'al or ' .lvvm '07 11 ,7 as .. xxx 51' 2-4, 'W W4 Q w 5 ' in ,gf , CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Drake's Wanda Ford tries to get around guard Cindy Knox, who had the second highest number of steals on the team. ZXZSXSS Cindy Knox pushes past Northern lowa's Lynn Hoch. Knox led the team in assists. 2!21!85 Debbie Flood drives the lane for a lay-up against Northern lowa's Karen Gorman. The women narrowly lost, 55-56. 2121185 photos hy Kenn 51 rphx I 147 A Summer To Practice Finding The Net Puzzle Could Be Filled With Shooter four and grew steadily as the season wore on. There are certain games where you're in the flow, Harden said. We had the reverse, bad shooting hurt our confidence and led to more bad shooting. Terria Dawson was the only starter at the end of the year hitting more than 40 percent of her shots. WSU was also hurt by shooting less than 55 percent from the line as a team, a trait the Shockers shared with the men's team. Another area Harden's team had in com- mon with Gene Smithson's squad was in committing fouls. The Shocker women foul- ed out 30 times during the year, and their opponents converted almost twice as many free throws as WSU, causing Harden to comment, l'm sure we must have led the na- tion in fouls. On the positive side, WSU outrebounded its opponents even though the team was without a player taller than 6-0 starting on the front line. Dawson averaged 9.4 boards in the pivot, including more than 11 re- bounds a game in the Gateway Conference. She took up the slack for the loss of Parr with consecutive games of 14, 17 and 16 boards late in the year. Harden said the summer will not be a holi- day for the Shockers. She said she has assured them they will practice shooting, shooting, and more shooting. Alt's a matter of repetition, she said. This will be a change of pace for Harden, who is regarded primarily as a defensive specialist. My kids would tell you that, she said with a smile. l'm more critical on defense, l think, but l enjoy the offense more. It became a necessity to concentrate on defense since we weren't shooting well. Harden spent the previous season trying to adapt to her players, and vice versa, while relying on an unpredictable offense with downtown shooter Lisa Hodgson and the six untested sophomores. And while this season ended with a disappointing record, her nucleus of six will be experienced seniors, including the return of point guard Sheryl Hastings and Parr. As for recruiting, Harden is opening audi- tions for the missing piece of the puz- zle. . . a shooter. Story by Kirk Garrett TEX CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Terria Dawson lights for the loose ball dur- ing the Shockers' loss to Northern lowa. Dawson's rebounding skills was one reason why WSU outrebounded its opponents. 2!2l!85 Cynthia Langlois shoots over the head of Drake's Tina Dock. Langlois, who failed to score that night, had a field goal average of about .430 percent. 2f23!85 Terria Dawson spots the goal before her shot. Dawson was the only starter who shot better than 40 percent on the year. 2!2l!85 Playing to a near-empty arena, the Shockers get instructions from coach Karen Harden during a time-out. Attendance for home games averaged about 280 people. 2!21!58 Forward Shannon Luke is caged in by Nor- thern lowa defenders. She finished with 4 points on the night. 2!2l!8S PORTRAIT Escaping Through The Hoop Player Makes It Giving 100 Percent Allison Daniel grew up with sports. 'I lived across the street from a park with tennis courts and basketball hoops. I spent all my time there. But close proximity to a park was not the only reason Daniel developed into a athlete. It was also in her genes. 'Dad was a boxer and played baseball, and all my brothers played baseball and basketball. We were a very com- petitive, big familyf' Living in the shadow of successful siblings drove her to develop her own skills. 'Bessie was two years older, played tennis, softball and basketball. I was always compared to her and that made me work hard because l'm not Bessie, I'm Allison.' Her parents encouraged her eight brothers and sisters to develop their own identity. 'They were very supportive and treated the boys and girls equally, she said, adding that there were some drawbacks. 'lf we were go- ing to a wedding at 5 p.m., we would have to start taking showers at 9 a.m. to have enough hot water. Her father is a police officer and her mother is a strong supporter of women's rights. 'Mother thought sports was a great way for us to gain equality and felt we had to take the consequences if we get hurtf' Daniel, a junior guard from Pittsburgh on Wichita State University women's basketball team, was recently named to the Gateway-All Conference team, and scored Z7 points in the last game of the season against Southwest Missouri State. Yet she began her career almost by chance. 'I was 5'8' in the eighth grade, and when I went to watch my sister play basketball the coach saw me, and asked me to try out. lt was a good incentivef' She gives her high school coach, Donna Haines, much of the credit for her develop- ment as an athlete. 'As a freshman, I didn't know the strategies of the game, and she would stay after practice and teach me. I-Iowever, she almost quit the team. 'I wanted to be good right away and it was frustrating. I developed an 'I'll be damned' attitude and decided I was going to do it. I guess Ijust needed a kick in the behind.' It didn't take long before Daniel developed a consuming love for the game. 'I practiced all the time, practiced instead of going to parties. I didn't have a lot of friends, just two or three I could count on. But it paid off and now I'm go- ing to school for free and enjoying it.' Daniel also attributes basketball with evolving her character and broadening her horizons. 'Basketball has given me maturity - you must have it to play the game because you always represent the team on or off the court. I've also been able to travel and meet different people from different life styles.' Even though her parents could not have af- forded to send her to college, she is quick to point out that she isn't using basketball just to get an education. 'I love the game and give it 100 percent whether on the court or in the classroom. Basketball makes me feel satisfied with myself as a person because I can co-operate with four other players and come out ahead. Daniel has her own technique to prepare for a game. 'I like to be by myself before a game - go over everything we practiced and relax. In high school I would sit alone in the stands and think over the offenses and defenses. You have to be mentally prepared all the time and that's hard work.' Although an excellent player, Daniel is often up and down in scoring. 'I expect too much from myself. When I don't start out playing well I get down on myself and start to tense up. Then I have to stop and think and get back into it. Daniel is considered an aggressive player who led the team in assists and steals, and was the only Shocker to start every game, averag- ing 35 minutes a contest. 'I like to play hard, aggressive basketball, and go for every oppor- tunity to stop the other player or go for the hoopf' Daniel earned co-honors last year as the team's most inspirational player. 'I think I have the ability to be a leader, which is an ex- tension of my personality. I like to take chances - I took a chance coming to Wichita. I also try to keep the team pumped up and help lift up someone who doesn't make the basket. And skill alone is not often enough. 'Attitude is everything. I don't have tremen- dous talent, but l've worked hard and that's important. And in some ways, basketball is a form of escape. 'I shut out everything when I play. It's a time I can be by myself, and forget about the pressures of the world. During the two hours of practice, I don't have to worry about school or financesf' This has been a hard year for women's basketball. Last season they were 14-14 but went 10-18 in 1985. 'Because we've been through so much together, we are a very close-knit team.' Besides their losing record, the team must contend with virtually non-existent support. 'It doesn't affect my playing, but it bothers me as a person. In high school we had a big crowd all the time, now I block out the fact that the crowd isn't there. This is especially hard because many of the players are from out of town and donit have families to watch them. But I never think a team is a losing team, no matter what their record is. Daniel believes part of the low attendance stems from the belief that women shouldn't be in sports. 'If I can help one person realize that women can be just as competitive as men, then I've done my job as an athlete. Daniel is an adminstration of justice major and hopes to combine her interests and develop a sports program for juveniles. 'In high school I would see kids loafing on street corners, and thought it would be nice to help them, and give them something to strive for - maybe they could take their frustrations out in sports instead of breaking the law.' She is a great fan ofjesse Owens. When she was 15, she won a gold medal in the softball toss at the jesse Owens Track and Field Games. 'I remember one thing he said, 'The youth of this country is our greatest natural resource, and sports is a great way to bring out that resource.' ' As Daniel is preparing for her last year of basketball, she spoke with just a touch of sadness. .'I want my senior year to last forever. I don't want to quit playingf' Story by Kate Wintrol Photo by Madeline McCullough Track 1985 Small Team Needs Perfect Meet To Win This past year, the men's and women's track teams set nine new school indoor records, and had three qualifiers for the in- door nationals, something that has never been accomplished before in Wichita State history. Even so, the teams managed to cap- ture only fourth place in the indoor con- ference meet for the men, and third place for the women. j.K. Kornelson, WSU track coach, said because of the way the teams are set up, that can almost be expected. 'Our philosophy has been that we pro- bably won't have a lot of athletes on our team, but the people we do have are going to be as good of athletes as we can get here, he said. 'As a result, we don't have a very big squad, so we count on our people to do a lot of things. 'In the men's findoorl conference, using Marvell Reid for an example, he was the winner in the long jump, qualified for na- tionals on the first day, and then was injured during his first run of the triple jump. He had the potential to score 30 points on the se- cond day and was instead out for the entire meet. While most other schools in the con- ference have 50 to 60 members on their squad, WSU fielded 22 men at the indoor meet. 'So as a result, things have to go almost perfect for us to do really well in a conference meet, Kornelson said. 'I wasn't pleased with fourth, but I thought the perfor- mances were good with the people we had. 'The women's findoorl conference meet pretty much ended up the same way in a dif- ferent respect. Our first day was near- disaster. We had fNina Thompsonl, who won the 60-yard dash in the conference last year, false start. We had the fastest time in the 4xZZO relay, and dropped the baton. We should have taken one and two in the long jump. 'Those are the kind of things that just destroy an opportunity to really be a con- tender. But they really came back tough the second day. If you had written it down on paper and given it to the athletes and said, 'This is what you need to do the second day, or we're going to finish fifth instead of third,' that's what they did, only better. 'So I was really pleased with that effort, being able to come back and do as well as we did.' The results of the indoor conference championship pretty much sum up the pro- blems the track teams have to face. Because of the teams' sizes, they cannot afford to have a misstep. But the results show the teams' talent. 'It's really hard to expect that everything will go well, that you don't have any slips,' Kornelson said. 'That means there can't be any injuries or sickness - things almost have to be perfect. 'I can recall only one time since I've been here that that's happened. It was the women's team, and we ended up second, out of first by three points. We took ll people, but they did a tremendous job. 'It can be frustrating. I think if you look past the short range we could have S0 or 60 people on a team. But I think if you look down the line, you couldn't do as good a job coaching, giving the individual attention that I think we give them now. We wouldn't be able to travel as many places with our budget. 'I think you have to put everything in perspective to determine what will be your philosophy. I think until things change drastically, we'll have to live with it, but it can be frustrating because you know you have an opportunity, but it's so slight everything has to be near-perfect.' The track teams' philosophy has been to limit the size of the team because of the size of the budget, in order to stress quality, an approach with which Kornelson agrees. 'I would rather see the individual do well, because when the individual does well the team is going to do well. It is because of that approach that WSU squads have been strong but not dominant. Another problem the teams have faced has been injuries, which because of their size, have a big impact. Last year's women's team was plagued with injuries. This past year, distance runner Susan Hammock fell during Christmas, and battled the flu during the fall cross-country season. 'You get the flu for a week in a distance runner and it may take a month or six weeks to get back on the training schedule, Kornelson said. While some injuries will occur as part of the normal course of events during a season, Kornelson said much of them are, in part, unnecessary. 'Right now, some of that, in my opinion, has to relate to facilities. We've had a lot of problems with the Heskett Center with the floor surface. I 'It may not show up with intramurals or something like that, but when you train with a lot of intensity, it hurts. It's to the point CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Kevin Harvey. u probable conference con- tender this year, sails over u hurdle. 35185 Murvalie Starks, left, takes the hand-off from Keven Peppers during the mile-relay teum's practice. The team captured second in the indoor conference championships. 3!S!85 Team captain Rene Bumgurncr, left, and hurdler Wendy Kelly run laps before turn- ing to the hurdles. 3f7!85 Injuries, Budget Are Ongoing Bete Noir Inadequate Facilities Hurt Team's Training where we only go up there two days a week, and we try to keep our distance runners off there entirely, which leaves us running in Henry Levitt, which is not ideal either. You know, if there was a way we could do without the indoor season entirely it would probably be better for all our athletes. But I would have to say that 60 percent of our athletes' problems is from the places we have to train.' Kornelson said the Heskett Center is a risky place for high jumpers, long jumpers and hurdlers to train. 'The floor is so slick you can't generate enough momentum to hurdle properly. We have to put boards down for the long jump, and the approach changes, the steps change. It's hard to develop consistency. The high jump is near impossible, but we just do the best we can with what we have.' The track coaches have based the training schedule for the teams on a pyramid plan. The idea is to work the members at below their full potential at the season's start, gradually increasing the level of their perfor- mance throughout the season until they peak at the outdoor conference meet at season's end. 'And I think it has to be that way because of the endurance of the athletes to maintain the intensity with which they train - you have to be really careful that they peak at the right time. 'Everything is set up on an inten- sityfvolume idea. The intensity level is set at about 70 percent of the athlete's potential. They can run faster than that and adapt quickly, but it won't last, the body has to go through a recovery cycle, and there's no time for that during the school year. So they need to be at 70 percent during the indoor season - faster than that and they won't have anything for the conference fchampionshipsl. Every three weeks, the athletes' intensity levels are changed three percent. 'Every athlete is on a different intensity level, based on their best performance, so everything is individualized. The volume is based roughly on six times their race distancef' Distance runners especially are set on changing intensity levels, rather than distances in training. 'julie Duncan, for ex- ample: Her first year here she would get as many as 85 miles in a week, which is kind of high. Then you taper the distance down to as low as 40 miles, and it cycles. We're finding that a more steady volume works better, so she's training at about 65 to 70 miles a week, and doing that all year around. People are able to train harder and stay healthier with that.' The coaching staff also uses a mixture of scientific approaches, like kinesiology - stu- dying the movement of the body to max- imize effort - with traditional training methods. 'I think I'm caught in the middle between two ongoing coaching philoso- phies, Kornelson said. 'There are coaches that have been at it for years and years and years, and most of their training methods are from experience, which is fine. But you don't know how many athletes you've wasted in the meantime. And then you have the new coaches that are the scientific, biomechanical, physiology-of- exercise people that are very scientific, but they lack the ability to apply it to the athletes. I'm in the middle ground trying to combine both. I'm not there yet but it's workablef' Having just finished his second season as head coach of both men's and women's teams, Kornelson said the biggest problem he has faced has been trying to effectively organize the coaching staff to cover everything that needs to be done. But the staff shares the same approaches that he has, which has let Kornelson put his assistants in the areas they know best and let them go. He expects to do well in the conference in the distance events and the hurdles, and has strong sprinters. Sprinter Keven Peppers, who took first in the indoor championships, should be in the running for the outdoor meetsg julie Duncan is trying for her third 10,000-meter championshipg high jumper Mark Todd, hurdler Carmel Maher, javelin thrower Ken Rohlings, as well as jumper Marvell Reid and sprinter Nina Thompson are just some of the WSU track members ex- pected to do well in the conference. Kornelson said the teams have the poten- tial for second in the conference, especially the women. But, again, things would have to be perfect. 'Probably our number one con- cern is keeping everyone healthy. Winning it, l'm not sure we have enough people at this point. I'm not going to change my philosophies. I'm not going to get a lot of people on the team for some points to win the conference meet. We can't afford it in time and money both.' Story by Peter Ingmire 'Nit- ,Q-0, + las iw S Y gg Q si xf 3 QE xi A Y g ea is 5 la ,k Z 7 PORTRAIT Dividing His Time Carefull , Runner Makes A Name For Himself 'This is something that I've noticed the last five or six years - if I can't stay busy I will get terribly depressed, said Marvalie Starks. 'I remember when I was home in Denver and we had this real big blizzard. We were snowed in with about three-and-a-half feet of snow on the ground - cars couldn't move. 'Being trapped in the house, I began to go crazy, really. There was a Seven-Eleven store about a mile from our house and I got up at 3 at night, pulled on my snow boots and trucked through the snow just to play Ms. Pacman. I mean, I have to stay busy do- ing something at all times or I'll be depress- ed.' Starks is a middle distance runner of the Wichita State University track team, as well as a member of Forum Board, president of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, student senator, etc. He manages to juggle his time by careful planning, he said. While he's heard com- ments about him spreading himself too thin, he said he has to be a primary force in get- ting things done. 'A lot of my motivation comes from wan- ting to be as good as the next person. I always wanted to be able to compete and do just as well as anyone else. I don't like to say better, I like to say just as good. I have a cer- tain amount of self-esteem that keeps me up there - I don't take the backseat for nobody. Starks was born in Nuremberg, West Ger- many, and because his father was in the military, they moved about every three years. 'It's not good for keeping friends.' But he said it forced him to be adaptable to new situations and get the most out of them. Then his family moved to East St. Louis, Ill., where he entered a predominantly black junior high - he said he could count the number of whites in his high school of 2,100 on one hand. 'The military schools were predominantly white - you might have two or three blacks with a mixture of spanish, oriental. Then suddenly I had to take the im- pact of moving to an all-black city, an all- black school. 'When I first moved there I was terrified. When my mom - when she registered me in school - tapped the lady on the shoulder and asked whether the school was mixed, the lady said, real nonchalantly, 'Well, there's more of us than there are them.' I had to learn to deal with people on a new level - morals and ethics were different because it was a slum city. But I did adjust. He got involved in a lot of activities in school but considered quitting track. That's when he met Roosevelt Wilson, his high school track coach whom Starks calls his third father. 'My first dad being God, of course, and my second dad being my natural fatherf' Wilson wouldn't let Starks quit. 'We had a time trial in our gym class. We had to run the 600 and I busted out and won it by 50 yards. He came up and said, 'Isn't your name Starks? and I said yes. He said, 'Be at prac- tice today.' Not, 'Do you want to run?' HOI 'Will you run? He told me to be at practice and it was in such a way that I couldn't say anything other than OIC. His team was nationally ranked - in his senior year his relay team was fifth in the na- tion. That success was the result of pride. 'I think my coach could take any athlete from any school and instill so much pride, the want and the need to win, and be successful. I don't think itls just the athletes, I think he could take average athletes and make them great.' When he came to WSU he intended to keep on pushing himself despite biases he confronted. 'I was in a political science class my first year here. I had a guy whom I lived with in my residence hall tell me after seeing a grade on a paper I wrote for the class that he had a stereotype of student athletes, that we are basically jocks, and don't do as well in academics as they do in athletics. I thought that was a terrible insult, but that motivated me to do even better. Starks said he has also had to fight pre- judice from his own race, that he had been thought of as a 'Tom' or an 'oreo cookie' - black on the outside but white on the inside. But he said that's because people don't realize 'who the real Marvalie is.' And his name, too, has a distinctive styl- ing that he said also helps define him. 'It's different. I got mine from my dad. I'm a jr. but I should actually be a III. My dad got his name from his mother who was part Indian. I don't know where she got hers. 'Being a jr. I don't have to say, 'Well, there's my dad and then my grandmotherf It's unique. Not to be arrogant but I think I'm a unique person. There's only one Marvalie Starks jr., I think. 'I think I have an elaborate personality and I like to dress half-decent. I get a lot of feed- back just from the way I wear my hair. Like now, the guys will ask me, 'What kind of cut is that? and I say, 'It's a Marvalie cut.' That's a famous line of mine. When I get upset, people will know what l'm going to say in rebuttal: 'I can do this because I'm Mar- valie.' ' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough PORTRAIT Going The Distance - Loner Athlete Has Ol mpian Dream Stephanie Philip admits to being a jock, 'someone who does athletics basically to the point of it almost being a career - itis their life. At the age of five, she began swimming competitively. When she was 15, she felt she had been challenged as far as she could go and began looking at track, which ran concurrently with the swim season. 'I had to make a choice, and I decided to go on to something else.' Halfway through her junior year in college, she dropped off the track team because of a new love. I decided triathlons were more important to me.' Triathlons have only been around since the about 1978 and were designed to be the ultimate endurance test. Competitions com- bine distance swimming with road cycling and distance running. Philip was in high school when she first heard about triathlons from her mother, but didn't seriously con- sider competing until in college when she was in her doctor's office for an injury. So I was sitting in there flipping through a Sporfs Illustrated and there was an ad about it. I ripped the ad out and stuck it in my pocket. From then on I decided I was going to try it. She aimed for Chicago's triathlon in early August. Because she was recovering from a stress fracture at the time she concentrated on swimming and, later, bicycling. In mid- july she began running. By race day she was up to eight miles every other day. I had to run a 9.4 mile run - I had never run a 9.4 distance, ever. She took llth in her age group, 39th overall out of 300 women. Later in , the medical tent where she went as a N precaution, she told one of the doctors how long she had been training. 'I explained it to him briefly, and he said, 'You ought to try to be doing this seriously, girl. I don't fx know how you did thisl' That made me feel good. And she was hooked. Her next goal became the Iron Man com- petition in I-Iawaii, a 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike through the mountains, and marathon run back-to-back. Because the Iron Man is considered the world champion- ships, one has to qualify. Philip took first in her age group in the Dallas qualifying com- petition and was asked to go. The problem she faced was money. I pro- bably spent three months for two hours every morning on the phone. It was pro- bably the most emotionally taxing thing I had to do. . . 'I got to the end where I thought, 'Oh God, I'm never going to have enough money.' Most everything was paid for, but I needed 55300 to 3400 for gas and food. I told my father and he said, 'I told you a long time ago that if you needed any help, I'd help you out.' I was bound and determined that I'd do most of it myself. It was my biggest dream.' She drew a lot on her family for emotional support, but it wasn't fully there at first. 'At first they thought this thing was outrageous. I suppose because I'm 21, the only girl, I'm supposed to be settling down, thinking of other things, not sports. I couldn't unders- tand why they zhdn ?. It hurt when they'd ask those questions - 'Why do you go out and ride your bike a hundred miles every weekend? - but I knew eventually they'd come around and realize this wasn't a phase I was going through, this was very important to me. They did. By the time I left they were very supportive. During the Iron Man, because the events ran one right after another, Philip kept her energy up by eating bananas and drinking water during the biking until she was sick of it. Because of the amount of work she was doing, she burned off most of the calories, but not all of them. 'During the bike I never, ever had to go to the bathroom. I was out on the bike for just under eight hours, and that's very unusual for me. I go every hour on the hour because I drink a lot of water. Then she began the marathon. 'And about the time the sun started going down was about the time I had to start going to the bathroom - and then I had to go all the time. Philip trains alone for the most part and makes her own decisions about how to train. She said the sport can be lonely. 'But I'm a loner. I'm the kind of person who likes to go out by myself and work out. That's my per- sonal time alone. IfI don't have my personal time, I can't cope with the rest of the things in life.' She said she enjoys being out of the or- dinary and independent and remaining com- mitted to being the best. She hopes to be in the swimming competition in the 1988 Olympics, and - if the sport is accepted as an exhibition event - in the 1992 Olympic triathlon. I've got so many things that I want to do that are important to me, longings and desires that I have, that I feel like if I don't accomplish them, if I ever did settle down, I would look back and think, 'I wish I had. . .' 'I won't be happy with myself otherwise. To me life is so wonderful. It's just great and there are so many things out there to do and I want to go out and try everything I can. That makes life worth living. There's something inside of me and there's no way you can get rid of it. I, at least, got to try because then I know I gave 100 percent. Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough Stadium To Spur Winning Baseball Squad Hope springs eternal, and this spring Wichita State University's baseball team entered the 1985 season with high hopes - in part because of its shiny new stadium. The 3,400-seat complex, which was originally due to be completed Mar. 1, was rescheduled to open in mid-April because of weather delays. The stadium consists of a clubhouse - which houses the coaches' of- fices, a concession area, ticket booths and restrooms - five sections of permanent metal bleachers and lights for night games. Head coach Gene Stephenson was told when he took the job at WSU in 1978 that a stadium was going to be built soon. Eight seasons and over 400 victories later, Stephenson has what he was promised. 'I've got to be the most patient man on earth,' Stephenson said, adding that he visited the construction site every day to see how the stadium was progressing. Athletic Director Lew Perkins praised the Wichita community for getting behind the project financially and by volunteering various ser- vices. The privately-funded stadium was not erected without controversy, however. Perkins announced last September that the stadium would be named in honor of local automobile dealer Rusty Eck, who donated a large part of the project's S700,000 price tag. Many Wichitans and WSU supporters ques- tioned the name because of Eck's conviction and subsequent jail term for tax-evasion in 1981. The choice of the name remains. Another reason for hope this season centered around the recruiting crop. Stephenson said that this was one of his best recruiting years ever. 'We have more total depth than any team welve ever had, Stephenson praised, 'not the best talent, but the deepestf' WSU claimed only seven seniors on its roster, but six of the 17 returning lettermen were starters from last year's 40-Z2 team. No longer a power-hitting team, the 1985 Shockers were built around team speed and high individual batting averages. Sophomore outfielder Tim Raley C.384J and senior first baseman Dan juenke Q.37lJ were the top two returning sluggers from last season's squad. Other potent bats in the Shocker lineup included catcher Rick Wrona, and outfielders Kevin Penner and Shawn Land. The infield was a veteran unit with juenke, shortstop Arnie Beyeler and second- baseman Mark Grogan returning from last year's team. Outfielders Kent Headley and junior college transfer Gregg Schiffelbein also offered experience in the Shocker lineup. Pitching is another area where depth favored WSU. Seniors Greg LaFever and Ken Greenwood returned in the leadership roles, and were joined by sophomores Shawn Pumphrey and Rich Mclntyre in the starting rotation. Stephenson was optimistic about the future of three freshmen hurlers on the team - Eddy Durham, Barry Lunnon and David Haas. 'These guys arenlt just throwers, they're pitchers. I expect some good things from these kids in the years to come.' In addition to Grogan, Penner, juenke, LaFever and Greenwood, shortstop Eric Wilner and catcher Steve Mueller played their final season with the Shockers in 1985. Grogan and Penner both saw action during the 1982 campaign when WSU finished se- cond to Miami University in the College World Series and in the national rankings. ln addition to the stadium and the quality crop of recruits, Stephenson announced that he was interested in another transition for WSU's baseball program. Frustrated by the frequent weather-related cancellations in February and March every year, Stephenson proposed an alternative plan to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The plan suggested that the season's starting date be moved back to the last weekend in March. Schedule the games so that the players and fans can enjoy baseball when baseball is supposed to be enjoyed,' he said. 'We wouldn't end the season until june 15, with the playoffs and world series following. Stephenson said that the critics of his pro- posal wonder why the athletes should play on into june when school is over in mid- May. He offered two main reasons: The athletes could concentrate on studying for final exams in May and then on the end of the baseball season in june. Secondly, baseball wouldn't conflict with the basketball season in the minds of the fans. 'This proposal has been on the baseball committee's table for about one year. If we could get it past the committee, we could get it passed,' Stephenson said of the NCAA's policy board. But there are older people on the committee that are afraid to change from the status quo. Regardless of when the games are played, with the new stadium and WSU's winning tradition under Stephenson, Shocker baseball fans probably won't want to change the status quo for a long time to come. Story by Steve Witherspoon CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Third baseman Kevin Penner con- nects against Northwest Missouri State during the first game of a doubleheader. 2l23f85 Pitcher Kevin Kelly fires one past the plate during a game against Kearney State. 3f2f85 Second Baseman Mark Grogan throws to first after forcing out Kearney State's catcher Roger Reike to complete the double play. 3!2!85 Outfielder Shawn Land slides safely into second as Kearney State's Jeff Alfrey fields a late throw. 3!2!85 Head coach Gene Stephenson stares stoically while the Shockers were at bat in the final game of a doubleheader played at Lawrence- Dumont stadium. Their new home stadium was finished this past spr- ing. 3!3!85 Paul J antzi New Coach Works To Improve Competition 1985 will be a year of reworking and revitalizing the Wichita State University women's softball team. 'WSU softball has never been as good as it should have been considering the caliber of athletes we have, said head coach Cindy Bristow. Bristow came to WSU this summer after a year as head coach at Arizona State University. 'We have not been viewed as a Division I program, we have been viewed as just a softball team. We should be competing with Division I schools, and I have upgraded the competition,' she said. As part of Bristow's plan to elevate the program, several strong opponents and IOUI- naments have been added to the schedule. Early in the spring season, the team will travel to tournaments at Oklahoma and New Mexico State, both of which feature na- tionally ranked teams. In addition, the Shockers will meet Big Eight Conference members Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Kansas and Big Ten conference member Minnesota. 'We picked up those major tournaments to give our program some exposure in its own right, Bristow said. 'If you play strong com- petition, you'll play up to that level.' Last season the Shockers finished with a 16-Z8 record overall, a 5-13 conference record and a ninth-place finish. In the 1984 fall season, the team ended with a dismal 0-10. 'I know they will play bet- ter this year - that's all you can ask. I didn't recruit any of these players,' Bristow ex- plained. 'We had a very good fall in that the players learn- ed about themselves in- dividually and as a team,' she added. Bristow commented that the women are weakest in hitting. 'It's a strength skill and women aren't coached when young on the right way to hit. Also, women donlt isolate their body parts as well as men and hit with their whole arm. The team has been practicing hitting, fielding and general conditioning in prepra- tion for the spring season. Returning for a powerful infield are senior Becky Craft at third base, sophomore shortstop Lora Heitg Bartlesville, Okla., native Kristi Ewing will play second baseg and three-year letter- winner Heidi Hagen will be at first base. Bristow admits the outfield is in need of im- provement and the pitching staff must be rebuilt. She is actively recruiting athletes and has signed a pitcher and a catcher from California. The new head coach is no stranger to soft- ball - she pitched for 10 years on five dif- ferent American Softball Association teams, played in eight national tournaments and participated for three consecutive years in the College World Series. 'I don't play competitively any more - my focus has changed,' she explained. 'As a coach I'm competitive in a realistic sense. You can't expect things out of a team they wouldn't do. I'm happy with my ac- complishments as a player and would like to see my team accomplish things. Bristow has a definite philosophy towards coaching. 'When you're coaching and deal- ing with people, you have to put your ego in your pocket. I try to use the sport as a vehi- cle to teach the kids.' In fact, there is one phrase that sums up her attitude towards coaching and sports - 'I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care. Softball, according to Bristow, is a think- ing game, unlike basketball, which relies more on reaction. 'It's a real mental game. A player has so many options at a split second and might not get a chance for another cou- ple of inningsf' But softball is more than just a game - Bristow feels it teachs you about life. 'It's all about individual confrontation, the pitcher versus the batter, she said. 'It also deals with responsibility, dedication, commitment and how to win and lose. However, there are problems and frustra- tions in gaining acceptance for women's sports. 'There is prejudice everywhere you go. A lot of people have a wait-and-see at- titude, Bristow said. But she thinks part of the difficulties arise from the athletes themselves. 'Women athletes have a respon- sibility to upgrade their im- age, dress better and handle themselves professionallyf' This professional attitude exhibited by the softball team is one reason Bristow feels they have been accepted by the community. 'The best way to gain support is to put a winner on the field - people want to see a winner. Story by Kate Wintrol Paul Jantzi Paul Jantzi Vo11eyball's Second Year Is Second Hope In 1980, the Wichita State University athletic department disbanded the volleyball program. Kathryn Bunnell, assistant athletic director, said the reasons were primarily financial considerations as well as a lack of interest. The program, she said, had almost yearly turnover and the team was no longer competitive. In 1983, the volleyball program was reestablished after it was decided the women's athletic program would join the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference. To join the conference, a certain number of var- sity women's sports had to be offered, in- cluding volleyball. But the problem this time was whether the program would be able to withstand the challenges inherent with a new program. Bunnell said the team faced a difficult task trying to compete against schools that had established programs. The athletic department chose Phil Shoemaker, who was involved with a suc- cessful program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, to head the program. Bunnell said he was chosen for the difficult position of building a program because of his recruiting capabilities, his confidence and his knowledge. In its first year, the team went 6-ZZ. Last year, the team improved on that record, garnering 15 wins to Z0 losses and moving from last place in conference play to a tie for seventh. Shoemaker feels this season proves the Shockers are making headway in establishing a strong program in spite of the team's relative youth. We don't have a great deal of experience, but I felt the players all played hard and they did, for the most part, the best that they could possibly do,' Shoemaker said. 'The players have a right to be proud. The volleyball team had a promising start. Before GCAC conference play began in mid- October, the team was 10-10 overall. However, its first two conference outings of the season showed the team was still suffer- ing from a lack of experience. The Shockers lost to both Drake and Northern Iowa universities in four games. It was during the first part of the season when the team had one of its most memorable moments for the season - cap- turing first place in the Golden Hurricane In- vitational. The Shockers had to beat a tough Oral Roberts University team, 15-13, 15-IZ, 12-15, 4-15, 15-9. Shoemaker said that was one of the sweetest victories all season. 'That was an important hump for us to get over, to beat a good team in a close match, he said. We hadn't done that up until that point in time. He said the team did not look ahead to the next match and concentrated on playing as hard and well as they could, showing themselves what they were capable of doing. 'Aside from the victory, which is always nice, it really was a good lesson to the team,' Shoemaker said. I know we're not the best team in the world but we played hard, we played together as a group, we focused our efforts on this one match and it paid off. It was a real good milestone for the team.' Two of the standouts on the team were Michele McElroy and Brenda Weber, both attackers. McElroy was the Gateway leader in both kills per game 14.011 and attempts 19.511, while Weber led the GCAC in attack percentage. Both were ranked nationally for their performances. McElroy was also nam- ed Gateway Player of the Week for her per- formance in September's matches. Shoemaker said team effort was also crucial. I-Ie said jennifer Miller and Stephanie Mullins, who were the team's primary setters, were intrinsic to the gameplan. 'They both did a good job getting the ball to our hitters, he said. That's what gets fMcElroy and Weberl the stats that they have. The team will continue training during the off-season and compete in sanctioned U.S. Volleyball Association tournaments. Another major task will be recruitment. There are both pros and cons associated with the team's relative youth. One drawback is that there is no tradition as a powerhouse. Instead, Shoemaker has to rely on proving WSU's program is growing and improving. With a program that is building, younger players will also get a bet- ter chance at playing. That type of situation is real appealing to a lot of younger people, Shoemaker said, 'because they may not want to sit on a bench for a year or two years like they would at a more established Division I programf' But recruiting also takes time to establish, Shoemaker said. The entire program - athletics and academics - has to be sold. 'You just try to be honest because you don't want anyone coming in here and feel- ing they've been led here under false pretenses. The best advertising we'll have is people who have been here and say, 'What they tell you is a real deal, you can believe what they say.' 'And with total humility, I think we have an excellent coaching staff. But last year's season was perhaps a more important show of volleyball's rebirth. 'We're becoming a good team but we're not there yet. There were a lot of milestones for the team last year. The girls were getting stronger, jumping higher, moving faster thoughout the season. I think the girls learn- ed a lot about life and not just about volleyball. I'd call all those lessons milestones. This is not just a sport, it's an educational process. 0 In memoriam: Stephanie Mullins, a Z2-year-old senior and member of the volleyball team, died last january of kidney failure after undergoing exploratory stomach surgery. She developed internal bleeding and other complications following surgery. We're all deeply shocked and saddened with the loss of Stephanief' Shoemaker said in a statement. 'Stephanie will be remembered as a person with a big heart who gave a lot both on and off the court. Story by Peter Ingmire ' Courtesy of Media Resource Center CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Brenda Weber is jubilant after a suc- cessful attack against Western Il- linois. l0!20!84 Mary Ellen Cogan passes off during WSU's home game victory of the University of Kansas. 10f9!84 Jennifer Miller, 1, Brenda Weber, 6, and Michele McElroy, 10, team up to block a shot by Westem lllinois. 10l20!84 Setter Jennifer Miller catches her breath during a break in the game against Western lllinois. The Shockers won the home match. 10!20!84 Y' if 6' wr E p .-:- iiiiii T .,, , e P-aul Jamai Looking To Continue Conference Winning Streaks Young Tennis Squads Work At Balance For the past seven seasons, WSU's men's tennis team has claimed the Missouri Valley Conference championship. One season the team was not favored to win the crown. Men's coach Rex Coad said despite the team's dominance of the crown, he doesn't feel the conference should be taken lightly. After the fall exhibition season, he said this year's team has shown a depth problem and needs to work on its confidence and polish technical skills. This return to basics is because the team is young. The team lost five of seven players from last year's team. Realistically, it's going to have a bearing on our season, he said. We're going to try to maintain our streak of Valley titles. I'm confident that if our players continue to develop, they have a very realistic chance at doing that - and we have our goals set even higher than that. Coad said that the team needs to make three times the progress it made during the fall preseason to become national- ly competitive, one of the team's perennial goals. 'Obviously when you have this young of a team you're looking to years in the future, he said. We're using this spring basically to build the nucleus of the team that we'll have hopefully for many years to come. One other difference between this year's team and some previous years' teams is an even balance between international and American players. Beginning in the late 1970s, Wichita State brought in players from other countries in an attempt to build a strong tennis program. In order to build the level of the team,' Coad said, 'we went out and recruited the best players we could get. At that point in time, there weren't any American players that could take a chance or be expected to start that tradition. As the team has con- tinued to get stronger we've been able to get more players from the United Statesf' This year's team, he said, has an even balance of American and international players. He said that balance will help everyone in the long run. But for this year, Coad said, the team will work on refining basic skills to a higher level of competency. He said he is also working on getting his players to judge their opponents' strengths and weaknesses in order to take control of the game. 'So rather than allowing the op- ponents to determine the style of play or control the flow of play, Qwe're tryingl to get our players to do that and to do it using the strengths each of them have.' The women's squad is also a young squad, according to coach jay Louderback, with on- ly one senior, one junior and the rest sophomores and freshmen. A few years back, a number of women dropped off the team, leaving the program without a strong base on which to rely. That has made it tough, he said, so he has tried to ease the pressure by changing the workouts. We've probably been practic- ing and going at it a little more relaxed than we have in the past, Louderback said. I haven't been pressuring them as much because it is a young team. We've been trying to be positive when we make bad strokes. I think they'll come around. Sophomore Eiran Swart has made tremendous progress, Louderback said, which is en- couraging after having a weak fall season. The doubles team of Sandy Sadler and Jill Braendle, one of the top doubles teams in the nation, has also played well. But because they are so strong, many teams won't pit their top doubles squad against them, in- stead using their number-two or -three doubles teams. That ploy cost the women's team at least one match this spring. Sadler will graduate this year, leaving the team with a large hole to fill. Louderback said he is working to strengthen the number-two doubles squad in preparation for next year, but knows he faces a difficult time. 'Losing her will be a big loss to us,' he said. She's also helped keep the team together and was important off the court as well as on the court.' This is the women's fourth year in the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference. They have won the championship twice, and took second the other year. Louderback said the team hopes to take the crown again this year as well as improve on last year's third-place finish in its regional division. 'But we're still young,' he said. 'I think it may be like last year where we struggle at the first of the year, but I think by the season's close we'll be playing well going into the conference meet. We've been having some great practices. I think this is as good a team as we've had here. Story by Peter Ingmire ax Q f ,K s Nt r ' X N , Xxx fy .ff K I .ww :Q- fi W S R , X 'A 34 -,Q Xt sg Q 2 'K W2 -1 F Q 'V 514' 1' 22 . 'i9,' I 'I Ja' v ' ' Q L0 lf ' 3 X my X PORTRAIT Dealing With The Pressure, Doubles Team Nonchanlant Being No. 1 Sandy Sadler and jill Braendle know the pressures of tennis. Sadler, last year's Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference champion at number one singles, teamed up with Braendle over the summer and ended up being ranked the number one doubles team in the nation, according to the U.S. Amateur's Association. They have won the CCAC doubles title since 1983 when they were put together as a team and look to make it three in a row this year, and possible on to the NCAA cham- pionships. But they still feel the stress of the game. 'Sometimes watching tennis on TV makes it look easy,' Braendle said. 'But when you get out there on the court and the pressure starts, it's all different. 'It takes a certain breed of people,' Sadler said.'Half the time people who try to go pro fold because they can't take the pressure. Sadler, a senior, is from Waterloo, Iowa. Braendle, a junior, is from Kentwood, Mich. They are roommates so they see the pressure each faces trying to juggle their schedules between school-work, practice and studying. 'We practice two or two-and-a-half hours a day and, during the season with matches, four to four-and-a-half hours a day, Braendle said. 'It's time-consuming, too, with classes and tennis. But you learn to budget your time. Sadler and Braendle started playing together for Wichita State University two years ago, when Braendle was a freshman. They feel their partnership on the court has made them stronger players, both mentally and physically. 'It's a disadvantage to get too excited dur- ing a match,' Braendle said. 'Your body goes every which way and your mind gets too ex- cited. When you play doubles as long as we have your partner knows what to do to get you back into the match. l l l 4 l l l l 1 'Sometimes you have to give your partner a little look or a hand gesture to bring them down, Sadler said. 'You do those sorts of things when you play doubles, and then you remember them when you're playing singles. You remember the last time you got so ex- cited what Qyour partnerl did to calm you downf' Both Sadler and Braendle developed an in- terest in tennis when they were around 13. They didn't start playing on a team until they were around 15. 'I played a little tennis and my high school coach in Iowa approached me, asking me to play,' Sadler said. 'Later a friend of mine came here to school and liked it, so I came here, too. 'My dad started teaching all three of us kids tennis at the same time, Braendle said. 'I wanted to be better than the other two, so I stuck with it.' The women's program has traditionally been strong, especially since joining the CCAC. Being in the CCAC has meant a lot of traveling. 'We leave on a van sometimes and drive for hours to a match, Sadler said, who has also helped drive. 'I think the longest trip has been to Des Moines, which was about an 18-hour HOD-SIOP drive. We usually get a night to sleep before a match, but we've had some matches where we just get there and start playing.' Both Sadler and Braendle have to maintain a full class load as well as play all year around. But they feel the challenge of stay- ing on top has made them better players. 'We're kind ofjust now getting things real- ly together, Sadler said. 'We had a tough schedule, but I think it's made us play better as a team as well as individually. In fact, Sadler and Braendle have played so well that other teams have, on occasion, put weaker players against them in a match, sacrificing that position to have stonger players in the number two and three spots. 'Yeah, sometimes it bothers me that other teams will do that to us.' Sadler said. 'But you live with it.' Sadler's eligibility as a college tennis player will run out next year, but she doesn't plan on going professional. She wants to work on a master's degree in adaptive physical educ- tion to help handicapped students. I can play for the college until next December, with my eligibilty ending the following May.' Sadler said. 'Once you begin you have five years to complete four years of eligibility. After that I'll continue to play competitively, but only on a social basis. It'll seem kind of strange.' This will leave Braendle to seek a new partner for her final year of school. 'I don't know who I'm going to play with next year,' she said. 'I guess I'll play with several dif- ferent people and see who worksf' Braendle also has no plans to go pro, and hopes to work in business after she gets her business degree. But until then, Sadler and Braendle will continue playing doubles and perfecting their game. Part of their plan is to keep on being the top players. 'There are certain teams we like to beat,' Sadler said. 'Winning is good,' said Braendle. 'I don't like to lose, and I hate to lose to KU. But when you know you did your best, that's the most important thing.' And which of them is fvallv the best player? 'She's better,' Sadler said, pointing to her partner. Braendle shook her head, smiling. 'No I'm not. Story by Tim Pouncey Photo by Kenn Murphy Adding A Sense Of Responsibility To Program Golfers Develop Maturit On The Course I've operated on the basis that you give a man a job to do and let him get it done any way he wants to,' said Ron Blevins, coach of the men's and women's golf teams. And I feel that I'm not quite right with that philosophy. I think they need a little more structure than I've given them in the past. I'll take a good deal of the responsibility for the fact that we haven't won, even though we have been competitive,' he added. Last year, Blevins enlisted the aid of Richard Laptad, assistant professor in physical education, and Richard Taylor, a local psychologist, to hone the mental skills of the golfers. Blevins still emphasizes men- tal concentration, but has included a more structured workout. 'For instance, I have demanded that each of them hit 500 short putts a week. In the past, I've just encouraged practice. Such things as personal management, when they come to daily practice, I say they will have shined shoes, be clean-shaven, well-dressed. 'l'm trying to instill and incorporate a bit more pride as a group. I hate to sound cliche, but that seems to be the thing we need now more than anything else.' Blevins said the men's squad has the abili- ty to play at a national level. The difference between the Shockers' placement this past fall and tournament winners was not that great. During the fall, the men's team was usually in the top five. WSU's Mike McCoy took first in the Hill- Robbins Memorial Classic in Memphis, Tenn. There were five returning starters from last year's team, which captured the Missouri Valley Conference title. The women's team faced an uphill battle. It was made up largely of freshmen, and led by sophomore Jodi Ness. Judy Jeter joined Blevins this year to help in developing a sense of tradition - something the team has been lacking. 'The Women's team has been through two, three years of misery,' Blevins said. It's been a terrible time to even get a complete team fielded. Judy has been the biggest fac- tor in putting some things together. We now have five girls intent on doing well - recruiting will give us eight to 10 women for next year. It's going to be a whole new experience. Blevins added that because the women's team has been under the gun for years, it's been hard to generate interest and funds. We've not been operating with a big budget. If Oklahoma State is recruiting and can say, 'We go to Honolulu, and go to 15 tournaments a year,' it's very easy for them to recruit someone. At Wichita State we say, 'Last year we had trouble getting five women on the fieldf The women's squad consistently finished low in tournament standings. Blevins, while acknowledging the team has virtually no chance for a winning season, expressed op- timism about the team's future. With a new assistant to help with the pro- gram and a squad young enough to have the luxury of a few years geared toward improv- ing, Blevins thinks the women's program can turn itself around. We're well on our way,' he said. We've got five delightful young ladies who are very interested. It's going to be goodf' Story by Peter Ingmire u Q - 5 . . X X . R NN . Q , , -in M ' 'ex x 5 5 x X, 5 X eg X K-ff 'X X x ' N ' ' x . bf X 'zxxxu . x wx gm ' Q x K Ns -A m X X x X 1 Gxxwxw. is X kk -N 'ww-154.K,S.,, - x 5 X-, - f., X W my , x 'wr V. . 5 -X--Jbbxb,- 't 1.1,-QYR: .x . xxx x x.x,,xW ' x . ,--TQT'!'f KQ v.'1 V' ' x K .- . . x , ,g x ' N' ,X3N:a.j'- .yi-n,,, X- ,K'..-.+ 'vxgyvg--. - R '- -N. s'o'-Aw, ..w- fa Rx, XX. X .49-1 f.,:.' 'xx , X5 - N N-' '17 .Qlx WX 'Xin T G9'?vi'f'x 5. ,M k , ' -' J V, h'5,,u9 ,. ' ' . 'TN ,Q 'lxq ,, '7M.,,,.. My Mg -. . 344 fix, A ,-, wig EQYZ 12 5 'i7'A A lyk? L?'f' cg., sa .. - s v Q L M, , Teams' Success Counters Bowling Image Over the years, the Wichita State men's and women's bowling teams have won ZZ conference championships and four national titles. The women's team has won every conference championship since 1972, has gone to nationals nine out of the 10 times there has been a national tournament, has won three times, and has never placed less than seventh. That type of success is virtually unheard of in any sport. Gordon Vadakin, manager of the Campus Recreation Center and the teams' coach since 1976, said the winning tradition started with the first coach, Paul Waliczek. He led the women's team to its first national title in 1975. We've kind of kept it in the family since then, Vadakin said. I know two of the girls from that team real well - one of them is my wife. The other coached the women's team to a national championship in 1977. She and her husband bowled on the team, my wife bowled on the team, Paul and his wife bowl- ed on the team. We all met each other through the bowling team, so it's been a close-friend or family kind of function to a certain extent. Because bowling is not an NCAA- sanctioned sport, the support for the pro- gram comes from local supporters who have helped establish a scholarship program - one of only about 12 in the nation - and the Campus Activities Center, which helps to cover travel expenses and some entry fees. But Vadakin said money is tight and the team has learned to operate on a shoestring budget. 'But there are some advantages to that. Everyone gets the feeling of pitching in and helping out. When we do fundraisers, they understand they're helping make the pro- gram better. lt's a work-ethic attitude on the team.' Vadakin admitted there is the perception of the bowler being a non-athlete. Campus Voife, a national student magazine, did an ar- ticle on WSU's bowling team this past year in which the author came to realize the sport is demanding, and the term 'college bowler' is not an oxymoron. When a team reaches the caliber of play the WSU teams have, Vadakin said, the sport is far beyond the recreational level, ad- ding that the sport will be a part of the 1988 Olympics and that more people bowl on a competitive level in a week than attend a season's worth of NFL football games. 'It's a common misconception, and I think the bowling community has allowed that to proliferate because it's promoted as something that's very social, that anyone can do at any age which are some of the positive things about the game. But in promoting that, a lot of people have lost sight of the fact that it's a highly competitive sport.' Anyone can bowl, Vadakin said, but it takes a lot of work to be good at it. It takes as much preparation and concentration as any, any other sport. Our people take it very seriously. We do a lot of mental and physical training. The teams listen to a tape series called 'Mental Dynamics for Athletes, which im- proves concentration. Vadakin said they work on the mental side of the game pro- bably more than any other team in the na- tion. This year they are considering using isolation tanks prior to their sectional tour- naments. We're really into the mental aspects. Our bowlers are excited about it - they unders- tand the concepts we work on, like goal- planning as a team, getting affirmations past our conscious mind into our subconscious. We're into it in a big, big way. Vadakin said he also stresses unity during team meetings. Because both teams travel together, the members develop a sense of family. 'We try to grow closer as a group because a lot of our success as a team is from our ability to get along with each other. 'The bowling team can be five individuals down there. We choose it to be a lot dif- ferent than that. We choose it to be not just five individuals but as one big person, and lose our individual scores in a team score.' This year, the men's team took second place in its conference behind a strong University of Nebraska squad. The women won their conference again, as well as every tournament they've entered, Vadakin said, which has never happened before. A few of the bowlers have gone on to become professionals, a trend Vadakin would like to see continue. As yet, women donit have as many opportunities to bowl professionally. Being with the team has made Vadakin into a better player, he said, and he has no plans on heading elsewhere soon. There is no better place to go, he add- ed. 'There's a lot of personal satisfaction for me in the job. You couldn't ask . . .well, you could always ask for more money, but certainly not more job satisfaction. It's really fun. Story by Peter Ingmire CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: With a near-flawless follow-through, Jorge Tomas aims for the pocket during one of the team's practices. 2!27!85 Debbie DiTrani, using all her might, snaps her wrist during the release, creating the spin to guide the pin down the lane. 2!27!85 Raif Terry stretches at the end of his ap- proach. 2!27!85 The brace helps keep Debbie DiTrani's wrist straight during the release as she takes aim. 2!27!85 z 2-9 at southern Illinois .... .., Southwest Texas State .,.................. at Kansas ........... . . . at Louisiana State ...... . . . at Nevada-Las Vegas ..... .... at Southwestern Louisiana . . . . . . . Texas-Arlington ........ .... at Tulsa .............. .... at Drake ........ ..... New Mexico State. . . . . . . West Texas State . . . .. . . Illinois State .. . .. . MEN'S BASKETBALL 18- 13 at Lamar ...... .......... .... Chicago State .... .... Pepperdine .................... .... Oregon ......................... .... WSU McDonald's Classic 13rd placel Ohio University ....... ....,.... .... McNeese State ...... . . . , . . . Nebraska-Omaha ,... .... Suntory Bowl Classic North Carolina ...... .... Arizona State ....... . . Hanford ............. . . West Texas State ....... . . Kansas at Kemper Arena .... . . at Bradley ........... . . at Illinois State .... . . Indiana State . . . . . Drake ........... . . Creighton .......... , . at West Texas State . . . . . at Indiana State .... . . 31-38 7-31 7-47 2 1-38 3-3 1 15-17 20-55 Z3-6 24-31 1 7-14 0-1 7 70-65 49-60 81-83 63-58 55-56 56-60 70-43 69-80 69-76 97-66 98-64 83-90 82-79 80-86 84-801 81-65 82-81 99-86 88-72 Southern Illinois .... Tulsa ........... at Creighton . . Illinois State .... at Drake ..... Bradley ......... at Tulsa .........., MVC Tournament Southern Illinois ...... . . , Indiana State ........., . . . at Tulsa Cchampionshipl . . . . . . NCAA Tournament Georgia lEast Regionall .... . . . WOMEN'S BASKETBALL at Colorado State ............... . . . Pizza I-Iut Classic l2nd placel Oklahoma City .......... . . . Kansas State ...,.......... . . . Florida State Classic 13rd placel Southern Alabama .......... . . . Florida State ............ . . , Oral Roberts ....... at Oklahoma State ..... . . . at Creighton . . . .... Kansas ............ Texas-El Paso ....... . . . at SW Missouri State .... . . . at Indiana State ..... at Illinois State .... Bradley ........ Western Illinois . , . at Drake ........ at Northern Iowa .... Eastern Illinois .... 92-76 80-56 75-87 64-72 58-64 95-77 75-65 66-67 69-66 92-65 84-82 59-67 48-60 84-63 49-66 54-89 70-54 78-63 51-74 47-73 '56-67 70-45 69-72 61-64 64-74 54-56 69-67 64-70 89-75 72-65 Southern Illinois . . . Illinois State ..., Indiana State .... at Bradley .......,.. . . . at Western Illinois .... . . . Northern Iowa ,,... Drake ........... at Southern Illinois . at Eastern Illinois .... . . . SW Missouri State .... . . . BASEBALL 40-22 Kearney State . , . Friends ....... I-riends ........ at New Mexico .... at New Mexico .... at New Mexico .... at New Mexico .... at New Mexico ....... . . at New Mexico ......... . . Wyoming at Albuqurque . . . . . . . Wyoming at Albuqurque . . . . . . . at Nevada-Las Vegas ..... . . . at Nevada-Las Vegas . . . . . at Nevada-Las Vegas. . . . . at Nevada-Las Vegas . . . . . Washburn ........ Washburn ........ Kansas Newman . . . Phillips ....... Phillips ........ Oklahoma City .... Oklahoma City .... Oklahoma City .... at Oral Roberts .... Marymount .... Marymount .... at Illinois State. . . at Illinois State. . . 34-43 49-68 67-60 52-50 69-85 55-56 58-69 52-57 66-67 74-50 13-0 12-0 13-3 344 . 3-7 15-0 . 6-1 . 5-6 . 9-0 . 1-2 1 1-5 . 5-3 14-15 . l-3 . 7-3 . 0-7 . .... 11-1 5-2 9-3 16-1 10-0 1 0-3 13-8 ...8-6 ...5-6 .....3-2 11-2 ...O-5 ...8-9 Emporia State .. . . . .. 6-7 Emporia State ..... . . . 12-1 at Indiana State .... .... 5 -4 at Indiana State .... .... 1 -3 at Indiana State .... .... 3 -4 at Indiana State ..... .... 0 -2 NW Missouri State .... .... 8 -2 NW Missouri State .... . . . 11-0 Fort Hays State .... .... 8 -2 Fort Hays State .... .... 6 -0 at Oklahoma City .. . . .. 10-2 at Oklahoma City . . . . . . 12-1 Kansas Newman . . . . . . 13-1 at Nebraska ..... .... 7 -9 at Nebraska . . . . . . . 4-2 Bradley ..... .... 4 -2 Bradley . . . . . . . 8-2 Bradley ..... .... 7 -4 Bradley ........ .. . 12-5 New Orleans .... .... 7 -8 New Orleans .... . . . 2-10 at Creighton .... .... 1 -2 at Creighton . . .... 6-5 at Creighton .... .... 0 -6 at Creighton ...... .... 9 -0 at Southern Illinois . . ,..... 3-l WOMENS TENNIS Spring results: Arkansas Invitational 14th place? WOMENS CROSS COUNTRY OSU Jamboree ......................... 2nd of 7 GCAC Championships .... .... 3 rd of 10 Leaders ........... .... T op finish Susan Hammock .... .... 1 at NTSU Julie Slade ...... ..... 7 at OSU Anita Beat ..... .... 4 at NTSU MENS GOLF U.C. Ferguson Classic .......,.......... Butler National ........ ..,. Hillman-Robbins .... .... Kansas Invitational . . . , 8th of 13 Sth of 18 3rd of 16 4th of8 Leaders ........ Mike McCoy , . . Dave Henson . . ... avg. .. 74.42 .. 74.92 Indiana State ...... Indiana State .... Indiana State . . , . Indiana State . . . . Miami. ..... . Miami Miami . ...... . ........ 10-11 10-6 10-9 ....3-7 ....8-7 ...4-14 ....4-5 SOFTBALL 0-10 Fall results: Kansas State .... Kansas State .... Kansas ......... Kansas . ........ . . SW Missouri State. . . SW Missouri State. . . Kansas ........... Kansas . . ....... Oklahoma City .... Oklahoma City .... ....0-3 1-2 1-5 1-4 1-6 ...,0-3 1-2 ....0-1 ....0-1 1-10 Batting ....., Sue Gaspar . . . Becky Craft . . . avg.-hr-rbi .Z79-0-5 .271-0-IZ Pitching ..... Sue Caspar . .. Cindy Cosby .... wins-losses-era 2-10-1.96 2-2-3.14 MENS TENNIS Spring results: Arkansas .............. at Texas Christian ....... Wal-Mart Championships Trinity ............. SIU-Edwardsville ..... Arkansas ........... Trinity ................ ....2-7 ....6-3 ....3-6 ....5-4 Corpus Christi Collegiate Championships llst place! Color ado .......... Illinois ................ Sheldon Coleman Invitational 11st placel Blue-Gray Invitational Florida ......... South Carolina. . . Utah ......... Duke .... at Tulsa ...... ........ Kansas ............... MVC Championships llst NCAA Tournament at Southern Methodist . place? 1-5 ...,S-1 ....3-6 ....7-2 ....6-2 ....5-4 .. 1-5 Michigan ............. Oklahoma ........ at Memphis State . . at Illinois ......,.. at SIU-Edwardsville. at Oral Roberts .... at Oklahoma City . . at Texas Christian . . at Texas Wesleyan at North Texas State. . . at Duke .......... at Nebraska ....... Kansas .........,. SIU-Edwardsville . . Kansas State ...... at SIU-Carbondale. . at Kentucky ....... at Drake ....... at Texas Tech ..... Nebraska ......... GCAC Championships llst placej ....6-3 ....3-6 ....9-0 ....5-4 ....3-5 ....5-4 ....6-0 ....3-6 ....9-0 ....9-0 ....4-S ....4-S ....8-1 ....4-5 ....9-0 ....4-5 ....-1-5 ....6-3 ....2-7 ....5-4 Fall results: at Oklahoma State ..,. Kansas . . ..... . , Arkansas ..... . Oral Roberts ..........,..... at Kansas State .............,.. Nebraska Invitational 14th placei Principia College ............... Iowa ...................... 1-8 ....3-6 ....4-5 ..,.9-0 ....9-0 ....9-0 ....3-6 Wisconsin ... .... 1-8 Minnesota ..... ......... 3 -6 Singles ....... .... w ins - losses Sandy Sadler .... Jill Braendle .... 11-5 ........8-6 Doubles .,........... .... w ins - losses Sadlt-:r!Braendle ......... ...,.... 1 0 - 3 Gloria OruelEiran Swart .... ........ 0 - 2 MENS CROSS COUNTRY OSUJamboree ......................... 4th of 9 North Texas State Invitational . . . .... 3rd of 12 MVC Championships .......... NCAA Region 5 Championships . . . . . 3rdof9 .. 9thof 14 Leaders ................. .... Tim Wilson .... Trey Harrison .... Chris Currie . . . Top finish . 2 at MVC 9 at NTSU 17 at MVC WOMENS GOLF Susie Maxwell Berning Classis . . . ..,.. Sth of8 OSU Cowgirl Invitational ..... . . , 14th of 14 Jayhawk Invitational ........ . . . 7th of8 Missouri Invitational .... . , . 8th of9 Leaders ......... .... a vg. Lora Wolf ... ... 87,42 Jodi Ness . .. ,,, 88,64 VOLLEYBALL 15-20 at Nebraska-Omaha ........... . . . 3-1 at Nebraska-Lincoln .... . . . 0-3 Oklahoma .................... . . . 0-3 Kansas State ................,..... . . . 0-3 Kansas State Invitational 13rd placej Kansas State ...........,..... . . . 1-3 Drake ....... , . , 0-3 Wisconsin 3 ................ . .. 1-3 Wisconsin ................... . . . 3-1 Oral Roberts Invitational 14th placeh East Texas State ............., . . . 3-1 Stephen F. Austin ..... . . . . . . 2-3 Oklahoma City . , . , . . 3-0 Texas-San Antonio . . . . . 3-0 Oral Roberts ..... . . . 1-3 Tulsa .......................... . , . 1-3 at Oklahoma ......................... . . . 0-3 Golden Hurricane Invitational llst placel Oral Roberts ...................... . . . 3-2 Kansas ......................... . . . 3-1 Tulsa ........... . . . 3-0 Oklahoma City .. . . . . 3-0 Kansas ........... . . . 3-1 at Drake ........ . . . 1-3 at Northern Iowa .... . . . 1-3 Bradley ......... . . . 1-3 Western Illinois ..... . . . 3-2 at Kansas ........ . . . 1-3 at St. Louis ........ . . . 3-0 at Southern Illinois . . . . . . 0-3 at Eastern Illinois ,.... . . . 2-3 at SW Missouri State .... . . . 0-3 Indiana State ....................... . . . 3-1 Illinois State ......................,.. . . . 0-3 Wildcat Weekend Invitational 13rd placel Kansas ........................... . . . 3-1 Tulsa .......................... . . . 2-3 Kansas State ... ... 0-3 Kansas ....... . . . 3-0 Away From The Court, X Is sau King Xavier McDaniel was the one of the last selected in what was heralded as a banner crop of recruits, and a lot of the attention on the freshmen was going to teammates Aubrey Sherrod and Greg Dreiling. Like most freshmen, McDaniel was inex- perienced with the rules and protocol of the university. But when he took to the court he was in his element, and all the maturity he may have lacked off the court showed through with every rebound and short jumper he made. What was impressive about him was that he played within his abilities, never looking to take the shot himself but to pass it off to keep the play going. He established himself as a role player. He said he didn't try to force the game, and that he would look for the play instead of the shot. When he had a clear shot, he would take it. Over the years, his level of play blossom- ed until, instead of being the role player, he was the leader. By the time he was a senior, it was a foregone conclusion that McDaniel would make the pros. Unlike the big names before him - notably Dave Stallworth and Antoine Carr - the prediction was that McDaniel would immediately be lifted from Wichita State University into the NBA. The Sports Information Department started a newsletter devoted strictly to McDaniel, called X-tra X-tra. It lauded his accomplishments, counted down on the records he amassed, and featured a 'Quote of the Week.' Among the accolades was the retirement of his jersey - the third number retired in the school's history - being the best rebounder and scorer in the nation, hav- ing a scholarship set up by jim Hershberger in McDaniel's name, and his being named first team all-American. But there is something beyond his life on the court. McDaniel has a strong sense of family, so it seems natural that he should develop a strong bond with his girlfriend's lit- tle brother. McDaniel has known j.j. Selmon for four years, now - over half of j.j.'s life. 'I-Ie don't have a brother himself,' McDaniel said, uso he's kind of like me. I didn't have a real brother. But I had a friend who lived next door who was like my brother. You would always see us together, couldn't find one without the other. In the South most people welcome everybody, and one day Greg just moved in. With IJ., he don't have nobody to play with out there where he lives. His father might be working, the ladies, they don't like to play. I just try to get out there and play with him like I was a kid myself. About three years ago, j.j., now seven years old, started playing in the Salvation Ar- my's biddy-ball basketball league. McDaniel, who would play basketball with him, would help him out and sometimes, when asked, would give the team some pointers. flust by watching them each year you can see their improvement, McDaniel said. 'They used to get the ball, and start walking with it and not dribble, like they'd forget. And the referee would call on them. But now they've learned to shoot better instead of sl- ingshotting it. 'lf I go over to his house now, I got to play at least 30 minutes of basketball with him or he'll bug me to death. McDaniel said part of the attention he gets from 1.1. is as a hero, the other part is as a family member. 'I-Ie's always calling me his little brother, telling me, 'Remember that day I dunked on you in South Carolina? I'm not sure he knows I've only known him for four yearsf' j.j. also imitates the team. He will shoot the fading jumper like Sherrod uses. He will imitate McDaniel getting a cramp. I'm always catching cramps in a game, McDaniel said. j.j. also tries to imitate the way McDaniel looks, and will ask to get his hair cut as short as McDaniel's is. 'But it be so cold out here and I don't think his head is ready for that. During the sum- mer he has pretty close to a bald head.' The Selmon family has given a lot of trust to McDaniel because they are sure he will take care of j.j. 'Like they will tell me, 'Don't buy him a lot of candyf But knowing me, he throws that sad look on me and say, 'X, I need some candy,' and then his face falls. But he knows his limits, I don't give him everything. Hav- ing someone there, it's always fun to kid around with. He just likes to be around me, and Ijust like to be around him. McDaniel has thought a lot about what will happen when he leaves Wichita. I-Ie plans to stay in touch. But the parting won't be easy, at least not for McDaniel. His momma asked him, 'What you gonna do when X leaves? McDaniel said. 'And he says he's going to make Cedric lColemanl his brother. Story by Peter Ingmire CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Hank Hersch, from Sporty llluxfmlnl, photographs Mcllaniel who watches tapes ofa previous game with James Cvibhs and Cedric Coleman. 2!28f85 McDanieI's evening doesn't end with the final buzzer. Here, he answers a question during a post-game interview. 2!23!85 Mcllaniel perfected the art of rebounding at Wichita State, collecting more than 1,000 in his career and leading the nation twice in three years. 2!27!85 McDaniel's No. 34 will never be worn hy another player as he joined Dave Stallworth, right, and Antoine Carr as the only WSU players ever to have their jerseys retired. 2!23!85 .l.J. Selmon drives past McDaniel in a driveway game, proving that a height advan- tage isn't everything. M6185 Shown here with Stallworth at the jersey retirement ceremony, McDaniel has been swarmed by both the press and the NBA scouts during the past year. 2123035 .l.J. joins X in the tunnel, where he watches his hero sign autographs after the final regular-season home game. 2!23!8S WORLD EVENTS Choice Of F erraro A Bold New Move It was a historical moment. Exactly 197 years after the United States Constitution had been penned, the nation had its first woman vice-presidential candidate for a ma- jor party. And across the nation, most were thinking about how good a choice Con- gresswoman Geraldine Ferraro was. Only ten days before the Democratic Na- tional Convention was to begin in San Fran- cisco, there were major rumblings in the Democratic ticket. Leaders for the National Organization of Women were saying there would be a floor fight if presidential-hopeful Walter Mondale did not choose a woman. Other minority leaders, while advocating someone from their own ranks, were echo- ing the call that it was time for a change. Mondale had almost committed himself numerous times on the campaign trail, refer- ing often to the strong possibility of a woman running mate. When he made his choice and together they were chosen as their party's candidates, the questions began coming in as soon as the excitement began wearing off. The first question was whether the so- called gender gap would be large enough to help the Democrats. While Ferraro definite- ly pulled in many women voters, she also drove many away - at least, that is what was claimed. Some observers said there was some question as to whether those women who claimed to be driven away were ever in the Mondale camp. What Ferraro unquestionably did was generate excitement and interest in the race. Members in the Reagan camp warily watch- ed the crowds flocking to see the first woman chosen by a major political party to run for high office. Mondale's aides knew that was what would happen. In june, when Mondale had sewn up the necessary number of delegates needed for the Democratic nomination, the polls showed that Reagan was getting stronger. They recommended someone who would create interest, no matter what the risk. Outside of her district in Queens, N.Y., little was known about her. The only na- tional attention she had received was when john O'Connor, who headed her diocese, spoke out against her support of pro-choice. However, once she hit national attention, it was never the same. The first example was when she had to answer for her family's financial dealings. At first it appeared she had payed more than her fair share of taxes. Then questions arose which eventually showed she and her husband, John Zaccaro, owed 329,709 in back taxes and 323,750 in interest. Because the error was an accounting error on the part of their tax consultant, not something the couple had done, the matter was quickly resolved with a check to the ln- ternal Revenue Service. However, the press had to be dealt with. This need became clearer when The New York Port, a tabloid that caters to the bizarre, began what seemed almost a malicious har- rassment about her family. Ferraro, at one point in the campaign, said of the publisher, Rupert Murdoch, he doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoesf' Ferraro came out of the episode in some minds even stronger. She dealt with the press forcefully and intelligently. No one would admit it but the press corps was look- ing for her to fall apart. She spent 100 minutes in a room with 200 reporters who each wanted a scoop, but she managed to bore them with details. There is no surer way to kill a story. Ferraro also scored well on her other big challenge, her debate with Vice President George Bush. She handled the issues and called him on his patronizing attitude on live national television, which must have sent a shiver of pleasure up the spines of American women. But in the end she lost the race with Mon- dale. There were immediate questions as to whether this would be a setback for women's rights, or maybe the time wasn't right for a woman to aim for such high office. But those questions become circumspect because the real issue was whether she could face the challenges of a national campaign. And she did face them and rise above them, causing Ms. magazine to name her Woman of the Year. Her campaign set the precedent that always begins the triumph over a struggle. Ferraro, when facing the arduousness of stumping, never forgot that and resolved to pass that message along: 'lf we can do this, she would tell women, we can do anything' 5 ' Q NK K Q s X. Q1 S' E ii gf in i Q FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro signs the phrase, I love you' to a group of deaf people attending a rally at Scranton, Pa. 9f13!84 Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale with running mate Geraldine Ferraro at a victory party. Reagan Easily Wins His Second Term Richard Milhouse Nixon was the last per- son elected to two consecutive terms in the White House before Ronald Wilson Reagan. Nixon was also the first person to carry 49 states, which President Reagan also did dur- ing the 1984 election. Reagan garnered 59 percent of the popular vote and amassed 525 electoral votes to Democrat Walter Mondale's 13. Most Democrats were walking around their camp the night of the election in embarrassment over the outcome of the presidential race. The strength of the Reagan victory was what Reagan had been asking for since he first announced he would run back in February. He would often say the job he had set out to do four years earlier was not finish- ed. He said the nation must avoid the weakness of the years prior to his having taken office. What marked his campaign was repeated allusions to strength and a return to family values. The Republican party, during its convention in Dallas, repeatedly associated Mondale's name to the presidency of jimmy Carter, which party regulars say was the low point in the nation's morale. There was only one point where the GOP seemed not to be able to come together and that was in committees to develop the party platform. Conservative party members fought for control with moderate Republicans over wording and outlook. Some of the proposals being suggested were so radical that moderates feared anyone looking at the platform would be scared away. Some of the ideas the platform contained were a return to the gold standard, a law pro- viding that all federal judges sign an oath before they take office that they oppose abortion, and a call that no new taxes be rais- ed. This last issue was particularly contentious because, while hard-line conservative Republicans favored massive cuts to keep taxes down, moderates did not want to box themselves into a hole. Dispirited moderates, after losing nearly every battle, in large part due to support from the Reagan team which did not want to lose the right-wing backing, resigned themselves to the fact that the far right con- trolled the party. The Democrats, by contrast, had a much easier time pulling in ranks. During their convention in San Francisco, the Mondale forces, who had strict control of the platform organizing committee, were willing to com- promise, although never on key issues. For example, The Reverend jesse jackson's forces pushed hard for a reorganiz- ing of the selection process in Democratic primaries. The Mondale people, trying to avoid a potentially explosive situation, agreed to consider the matter. Other issues were flat-out rejected such as a call to never use nuclear weapons on a first- strike basis. What tied the convention together was the drama brought out by the keynote speakers. New York Governor Mario Cuomo kicked- off the convention with a moving address that ended with a call for protecting the disadvantaged the same way people take care of their own family. The theme was one of national unity and a return to the values of fairness. Another showstopper was when Geraldine Ferraro was nominated for the vice presiden- cy, the first woman to be carried on a major party ticket. Within a week of the announce- ment that she was to be Mondale's running mate, the polls showed substantial Democratic gains, showing the public sup- ported the choice. But in the end, not even so bold a move could erode President Reagan's support. At times it seemed that even Reagan himself could not harm his lead. During the first of two presidential debates, Mondale outscored the president who, at times, was fumbling for words and seemed confused. For a time, Reagan was under the gun to prove that he was not get- ting too old for the job. During the second debate, his perfor- mance improved and that was enough to let people believe in him again. What Reagan lost in the polls following the first debate he quickly regained and never looked back. The campaign was perhaps roughest on the families of the candidates. The New York Pos! would frequently run stories that cast shadows on Ferraro's mother and father, at one point reporting that her parents had been arrested on gambling charges. Nancy Reagan, toward the end of the campaign, fell while getting out of bed in a hotel and landed on her head. On election night, her knees buckled as she walked down the steps of a helicopter. But on election night, when the results were coming in, the Republicans finally had the upper hand. All the polls predicting President Reagan's victory proved to be right. Mondale said, in his concession speech that the nation had chosen Reagan to be 'our President, and we honor him tonight. This choice was made peacefully, with dignity and with majesty .... We re- joice in the freedom of a wonderful people, and we accept their verdict. While Reagan did retain the White House with little difficulty, the election was not a complete GOP success. The Democrats closed the margin in the Republican- controlled Senate by two seats, and the GOP failed to make up for the losses in the House suffered during the 1982 campaign. But the election was historical because the nation was given a clear view of what they were voting for. Mondale, on the eve before the election when there was nothing left but wild hopes for a win, knew that when he ask- ed a crowd to help avoid a clean sweep. 'Either we will make history or they will make history. Mr. Reagan understands that. That's why he is calling for a clean sweep. Now if they make history, they'll claim a historic mandate. So before you vote, just pause a moment and think about it.' Death Toll In Worst Tragedy May Rise In the shantytowns of Bhopal, India, most of the residents were asleep when the disaster struck. At the near-by Union Carbide plant, a storage tank holding methyl isocyanate was showing a dangerously high pressure reading. By the time an alert was sounded, it was too late. A noxious white gas began seeping from the tank and spread over the city, carried by northwesterly winds. Soon, the streets were filled with the dead and dying. After the leak started, some 200,000 people ran through the city streets, coughing, screaming and calling out to each other. When the factory's siren went off at Z a.m., hundreds rushed toward the plant - straight into the deadly gas. The train station was littered with bodies, making it impossible for survivors to escape by train. The initial body count was 2,500 - the worst industrial accident in history. Across Bhopal, hospitals and mortuaries were overflowing. Muslims were buried in mass graves and Hindu funeral pyres burned con- tinually. As many as 100,000 survivors may be left with permanent disabilities - blind- ness, liver and kidney infections, sterility, tuberculosis and brain damage. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi rushed to Bhopal, stopping his election campaign through southern India. Local officials ordered a full-scale judicial inquiry and demanded that Union Carbide compensate the victims of the tragedy. When the chairman of the company, War- ren Anderson, went to Bhopal to talk about relief, local authorties arrested and charged him with criminal negligence. He was later released. Union Carbide offered emergency relief, but not outright compensation. The stage was set for the disaster almost Z0 years ago. At that time, India was in the throes of a Green Revolution' - a govern- ment plan to eliminate chronic food shor- tages. Part of the plan included increase pro- duction of pesticides and fertilizers. In 1975 the Indian government granted Union Carbide a license to manufacture pesticides. Before the factory was built, Bhopal and the surrounding area was not densely populated. Union Carbide built its plant on the outskirts of the city, despite a law requir- ing factories manufacturing dangerous substances to be built at least 15 miles from population centers. In the following years, more than 100,000 people moved into shantytowns that sprang up around the chemical plant in northeast Bhopal. The victims who suffered the most were children, elderly, and the destitute who lived in the shantytowns. Because of the toxic ef- fects of the gas, those who were not killed outright may die from diseases brought on by the toxin. The poison belongs to a group of toxins for which there is no andidote or treatment. There has been little study on the effects of methyl isocyanate on humans but complete recovery from the effects of that type of toxin does not always oc- cur. The cornea is damaged but can repair itself so many should recover their sight. But damage to the lungs and kidneys is more serious and it is that type of damage that can lead to early death. Soon after the accident, local authorities shut down the plant and began their investigation in- to the cause of the leak. Union Carbide officials were finally allowed inside the plant to assist but were watched carefully - speculation was that the chemical company would try to take advan- tage of local investigators' unfamiliarity with the plant and cover up any wrongdoing. A leaking water pipe which caused the chain reaction was thought to be the pro- blem that led to the tragedy. There was also a failure in the plant's safeguards, like vent scrubbers filled with caustic-soda, which neutralizes the gas. The worldwide attention on the Bhopal tragedy has prompted some to question how safe their local plants are. Union Carbide has said the safety precautions at the Bhopal plant match those set up in all their plants and cite its safety record as proof. of its reliability. While the safety record is good for major industries, the problem is that when ac- cidents do happen they are catastrophic. In the United States, there have neen renewed calls for upgrading safety and toxic manage- ment legislation. The problem will be whether there will be adequate enforcement, the kind that could have ensured that the safeguards at the Bhopal plant were opera- tional. ? Nm.. Xi FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Victims of the methyl isocyanate gas leak in the central lndian city are over- come by nausea and possible perma- nent blindness. 12!4!84 Bodies are stacked near morgues in Bhopal, the site of the worst industrial tragedy. 12!4!84 .-XP!Wide World Phot Farm Restructuring May End Famine The drought afflicting central and southern Africa is not new. Since 1968, global weather forecasters have been wat- ching the change and predicting that it will not get better, that the changes going on in that region are permanent. Ethiopia, where an estimated 300,000 to one-half million people have died of starva- tion, has received the most attention and direct relief. But the famine has stricken other countries as well, such as Mauritania, Mozambique and Chad. These countries have small agriculture- based economies whose systems are such that they cannot feed the entire country with their current technology. Relief to Ethiopia has poured in world- wide. But it has come so fast that, like a tor- rential rain after a parching drought, the country was deluged with more than it could handle. That resulted in press reports of mismanagement and countless stories of food-stocked warehouses in the cities while thousands starved on the plains. Hunger relief program directors, such as United Nations Hans Einhaus of the Disaster Relief Program, feared that if a suitable way to distribute the food was not found quickly, people would become pessimistic and stop giving. By the time food did reach the needy, many were too far gone to be saved - ailments brought on by starvation have se- verely weakened the malnourished people. Unable to survive where they were, peo- ple left their homes in a mass exodus to other countries. Countless ghost towns sprang up as entire villages moved toward more promising lands. But the governments would keep many locked out of relief camps at night for fear they would settle there - the governments want their people to eventually return home. Political differences complicated the pro- blems of refugee relocation. When it was .rw learned that Israel was airlifting thousands of jewish Ethiopians out of neighboring Sudan, both the Ethiopian and Sudanese govern- ments - which long have been embroiled in conflict - protested the action. Israel, however, says it remains committed to sav- ing its people. There were also reports of governments bombing its own people headed for refugee camps. It had been learned that in some in- stance's the nations' officials, perhaps out of embarrassment, had already been ignoring warnings and been covering up the severity of the problem. Ethiopia's leader, Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, threw a S200 million 10th anniver- sary party in 1982 even after his regime knew there were nationwide hunger pro- blems. Foreign journalists were allowed by the Mengistu government to visit blighted areas of the country only after the celebration was over. The United States was slow to react to the call for help and insisted on imposing a set of conditions on any relief aid that was sent. Many viewed the move as a way to pressure struggling countries to break their alliance with the Soviet Union, instead of a call for an economic restructuring as was argued by ad- ministration officials. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., frequently criticized the lack of action by the United States. By the end of 1984, the administra- tion had yet to tap into a reserve grain stock created the year before to help in emergen- cies like the famine in Africa. When food finally arrives, it is directed to those who have the best chance of survival. Physicians would wander through crowds and mark the foreheads of those who would receive help. As drought conditions continue, the pressure to produce more food will only serve to increase the problem. Fallow time will shorten as those farmers still with arable land continue a cycle of plan- ting without giving the soil a rest. The animal dung once used as fertilizer is now burned as fuel. Land that still can sustain growth is often used for cash crops like cot- ton - Chad recently had a bumper cotton harvest. The central and western Africa nations will grow more dependent on food aid which some observers worry will undermine self- sufficiency. Most analysts say the countries need to restructure their agricultural systems, turning away from cash crops, and support the farm economy more. Mengistu of Ethiopia will no longer be able to pour in 46 percent of the country's Gross National Product on weapons systems while the fate of millions of famine victims awaits a permanent answer. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: A child holds his food pot with other children at the famine relief center in Makelle, Ethiopia. A mother and child wait for aid at the Bati famine relief center. Gandhi's Death Gave Party A New Life The reaction to her . 1'w . death was swift. Enrag- ed mobs seekin . ' g ' I v -s til. ' K is--.. v fel Cflge for fhe death Of eee' . P Indira Gandhi sou ht ' K eeei X , out and killed innocent Sikhs, often with the brutality reserved for ritualistic slaughter. It was yet another ex- ample of the ethnic ten- sions that exist in India which erupted this past year. The violence that marked the existing dif- ferences between the Sikh separatists and the Gandhi supporters left countless thousands dead and a nation in turmoil and without a proven leader. In june of l984, Indira Gandhi ordered her army to the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the Sikhs holiest shrine, to root out the last of the separatists. The massacre that follow- ed left India even more deeply divided. Mrs. Gandhi was assassinated by two of her own guards, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, both of whom were Sikhs. Most of the political and religious leaders openly deplored the act of terrorism but other Sikh leaders, particularly those who lived abroad, claimed that justice had at last been served. The accounts of the destruction were gruesome. There were reports of bodies dismembered and burned, then the parts thrown about the areas where Sikhs lived. Some Sikhs were cornered and set afire while still alive. Entire cities were halted in the massive rage and grief following Mrs. Gandhi's death. The ruling government quickly enlisted her son, Rajiv, to take the post of prime minister. At that time, he was an untested leader and no one knew whether he was up to the task, made especially difficult by the grief for his mother. Gandhi called for an end to the violence. il at 'Nothing would hurt our beloved Indira Gan- dhi more than the occurrence of violence in any part of the country,' he said in a national radio broadcast. Sikhs who tried to pay their respects and visit Mrs. Gandhi's body which lay in state were stoned. As the death toll climbed to l,0O0 in Delhi alone, Rajiv Gandhi issued another plea, stating that the 'Sikhs as a whole' were not responsible for her death. When Rajiv Gandhi cremated his mother according to Hindu practices, only about 80,000 people attended - a small number by Indian standards. The crowds had ap- parently worn themselves out and disrupted services so thoroughly that they could not be present at her funeral. The Congress QD Party - the 'I' stands for Indira to distinguish it from splinter par- ties bearing the same name but had split from the ruling party six years earlier - set about rebuilding its power base. The party had been on shaky ground and faced an elec- tion down the road. Rajiv called for elections to be held in late December and began seeking to consolidate his support. The many rivals opposing the Congress CU Party began fighting among themselves - the only thing they had in com- mon was their con- tempt for Mrs. Gandhi. With her dead, the par- ty found its opposition withering away. Up for election were 5,418 candidates from 27 different political parties. Gandhi began X campaigning tirelessly, often working 20-hour days making public ap- pearances and meeting with his party officials. He built an image for himself as Mr. Clean. He shook up the ex- isting cabinet in an at- tempt to end corruption and, because of his political infancy, was not associated per- sonally with any scandal. His earlier han- dicap was becoming a benefit. Ghandi's party won easily. He captured the largest majority ever - even the over- whelming victories of his mother's - with 80 percent support and his party claiming at least 400 of the 508 contested seats. He is looked upon as a pragmatic person. While his mother would sometimes consult astrologers in order to make a decision, Rajiv Gandhi uses statistics. He has been schooled in western universities and has committed himself to the progessive ideals of his mother's. It is not certain whether Mrs. Gandhi would have won but there is little doubt she would not have won so handily. Some observers wonder whether she didn't sense what was coming. During her electioneer- ing, she faced crowds with relatively little protection. This makes her words, spoken the night before she was killed, almost pro- phetic. 'I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. IfI die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.' Country Enters New Age Cf Democracy For the first time in 50 years, El Salvador elected a civilian president. Christian Democrat jose Napoleon Duarte was faced with the enormous task of establishing stability in a coun- try where the people never knew 4. whether they would live through the V, day. The gradual shift to democratic rule began when a provisional government was set up under Alvaro Magana as a transition from the military regime that had existed for so long. Because Magana was only a provisional presi- dent, he held no real authority. The terrorist acts that had been going on for decades continued under him. Six people ran for office, but Duarte's main opposition came from Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the Republican Nationalist Alliance QARENAJ. D'Aubuisson was a member of the right-wing and had been linked to the death squads that terrorized the country. The Reagan administration tried to maintain neutrality and would endorse none of the candidates although state depart- ment officials said it was no secret that Duarte was preferred. It was felt his moderate stance was more appealing to Con- gress which would be more sympathetic when requests for aid were proposed. Congress made frequent demands that military aid to El Salvador be contingent on progress on human rights and the limiting of right-wing death squad activity. However, whenever a bill was sent to the White House it would be vetoed by President Reagan on the grounds that the United States should not abandon an ally fighting left-wing in- surgents. As the March ZS election date moved closer, the United States stepped up its military presence in Central America - the number of U.S. troops in nearby Honduras 2 XA - ,,ia -fe? . WE? W doubled to 1,700 and U.S. military advisers in El Salvador were heavily armed. D'Aubuisson, in an effort to prove he had close connections with Washington, tried to visit the United States a few weeks before the election but was denied a visa. The Reagan administration issued a statement discouraging all six candidates from visiting - apparently to avoid a dispute. The United States sent observers to oversee the electoral process to insure that voter fraud was kept to a minimum. The British Netherlands as well as Belgium also sent observers at the invitation of El Salvador. Voter turnout was large - voting is man- datory and the fine for not casting a ballot is the equivalent to about three days' wages. Duarte won the election but did not gain a M I majority, forcing a runoff to be scheduled in May with d'Aubuisson. Duarte won the runoff with 54 per- cent of the vote. D'Abuisson at first protested the vote but when the final tally was confirmed, he accepted the outcome. Many viewed the election as a monumental first step toward democracy, but Duarte was more cautious. He ran for president in 1972 and seemed certain to win. But voter fraud robbed him of the election and he was beaten, literally. Salvadoran soldiers used guns and fists, resulting in crushed bones in his face which ac- counts for his slightly sunken features. Duarte came to Washington and convinced the Congress into giving his country some 3200 million in economic and military aid. He sought to control the rebellious army by establishing himself as the leader but making sure they understood they could give him consultation. He convinced business leaders that .his leftist-leaning economic and social policies were not a danger to them - in short, he tried to gain the trust of the nation which elected him. His biggest and most daring feat was ar- ranging a meeting in October with leftist rebels as a beginning to peace talks. This past Christmas and New Year's Eve, for the first time in recent memory, there were no violent clashes - an impromptu three-day cease fire existed. El Salvador needed a man who could bridge the gulf between the right-wing and the left-wing like Duarte has so effectively done. Since being in'office, the number of people killed by death squads has dropped from 40 a month to 12. That number is still high for a nation its size, but it is the strongest sign yet of the reawakening of democracy. American Team Shares Its Victories The 1984 Winter and Summer Olympic Games contrasted as greatly as the seasons in which they were held. One was held in a small town in a communist country, the other was held in one of the world's largest cities in a capitalist nation. One emerged unscathed by political underpinnings, the other was hampered by international boycotts. Organizers for the winter games, held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were hoping to have 50 teams attending. They allowed a speed skater from the Virgin Islands to enter after the deadline. However, the seven-man team from Denmark later withdrew, dropping the number of nations competing to 49. ABC-TV scheduled 63 Vz hours of televi- sion coverage for the 15135 million event. Most of the coverage centered on interna- tional competitors who generally were the winners. All tolled, the United States claim- ed four gold medals and four silver. The first U.S. medal came from figure skaters Kitty and Peter Carruthers, who won a silver. The first gold medal came from Debbie Armstrong, who won the women's giant slalom, the first American ever to win the event. Christine Cooper of Q it si the U.S. was second in the event. , 8 The United States 'kt W SK claimed another gold is 'S A medal when cocky Bill johnson won the men's downhill, making him the first American to ever win a medal in Olympic downhill competition. Hopes centered on the U.S. Hockey aatt f squad - the cinderella story of the 1980 Olympics - were quickly dashed when the team lost its first two games, putting them out of medal contention. The British ice dancing team of Jayne Tor- vill and Christopher Dean made Olympic history when they scored the first perfect score in ice dancing - twice. They received a perfect score for their compulsory routine. They also received a perfect score for artistic impression during the freestyle portion of their program. They easily claimed the gold medal. United States National Champion and defending World Champion Scott Hamilton also claimed the gold medal for men's figure skating. On the final day of the games, twins Phil and Steve Mahr helped add to the collection of medals garnered by the United States, by finishing first and second in the men's giant slalom, respectively. Later, right before receiving his gold medal, Phil received a phone call from home telling him his wife just had a baby. While the medal pull from the 1984 games did not match that of the 1980 games, held in Lake Placid, N.Y., the depth of the U.S.'s team showed through in how the medals were distributed, coming from both the men's and women's ski teams, as well as ice events. There were no stars on the team like Eric Heiden. One U.S. coach said that the recognition for 1984's successes would have to go to the entire U.S. Winter Olympic team, instead of just one person. By way of contrast, the United States Summer Olympic team claimed 83 gold medals - nearly four times as many as Rumania, the national squad with the next highest gold medal count - and 174 medals total - over three times as many as West Germany's medal count. Much of the television coverage - again done by ABC-TV - focused on American successes. There were so many that the sta- tion would have been hard-pressed to cover other nations' victories. That brought on both international criticism and national praise. While people in foreign countries grew tired of seeing the American Cakewalk, U.S. citizens were eating it up. ABC had the rights to the games so the distribution was done through the company. In january, the Soviet Union an- nounced it would boycott the games because it was not convinced its J athletes could be protected. But most felt the move was a way to punish the tx ' photos by XP!Wide World Photos U.S. Has Cakewalk In lympic Spectacle United States for its boycott four years earlier when Moscow hosted the summer games. That speculation seemed affirmed when the Soviets added they were unhappy with the Mgross flouting of the Olympic ideals by U.S. authoritiesf' What marked the games was the pagean- try and spectacle surrounding the athletic events. The opening ceremonies featured a massive MGM-style show tracing America and its music. Thousands of balloons were released which had metallic objects attached to long tails - knocking out power to over 2,000 homes when they landed in electrical lines. The games were opened by President Ronald W. Reagan, who stood behind a bullet-proof shield and whose itinerary was kept secret because of fear of attack. Earlier that week, Libya joined the Soviet-led boycott, claiming it had doubts about the organizing committees' abilities to protect its athletes. China, which was attending its first Olym- pic Games in over 25 years, claimed the honor of having the first gold medal awarded in the games. Xu I-Iaifeng won the pistol competition only moments before the U.S. women's cycling team captured the gold and silver on opening day. On the first day, the United States took two gold medals in cycling and four in swim- ming, including the first dead-heat ever in swimming. Both Nancy Hogshead and Car- rie Steinseifer were given the gold for the women's 100-meter freestyle. Other U.S. Olympic highlights included Edwin Moses' gold medal performance in the 400-meter high hurdlesg Greg Louganis' gold medals in both the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform diving competitions: Carl Lewis' four gold medals in track and field, and a gold medal for the men's volleyball squad. The only Warsaw Pact country to ignore the Soviet-led boycott was Rumania. lt was later revealed that both the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and the In- ternational Olympic Committee subsidized the team to attend. The Rumanian women's gymnastics team as won the team gold, barely edging out the U.S. squad. Mary Lou Retton became the new darling of gymnastics, leading the U.S. team to its best finish ever and capturing the gold medal in the all-around competition, the first women's U.S. medal in Olympic competition. joan Benoit was the winner of the first Olympic women's marathon event. The men's gymnastic team won the gold for team competition. And charismatic Daley Thompson from Great Britain claimed the title of World's Greatest Athletef' by winn- ing the decathlon, just shy of the world record. The games closed in Hollywood style with breakdancers, a space ship sending a message of peace, and an invitation to attend the next games. ABC had broadcast 180 hours and, despite the boycott, people from 140 nations competed. ln the end, the success of the games could be seen tangibly. The LAOOC held costs down and profits up enough to come under projected budgets and post a S150 million profit. BEGINNING FROM FAR LEFT: Carl Lewis wins four gold medals - the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints, the 4-by-400-meter relay and the long jump - equaling Jesse Owens' 1936 feat. World champion Scott Hamilton claims the gold in the men's figure skating competition. Mary Lou Retton helps lead the U.S. women's gymnastics team to its first Olympic gold. Retton won first in the all-around competition, netted a silver for the vault, and captured two bronze medals for the vault and uneven parallel bars. Phil Mahr wins the men's giant slalom on the closing day of the Winter Olym- pics, the first American ever to do so. photos by Xl'lW'ide World Photos Victory Tour And Shuttle Get Off The Ground Michael jackson fpictured at rightl won an unprecedented eight Grammys and toured more than a dozen cities with his brothers on the Victory Tour. The ticket package ar- ranged by organizers stirred a bit of con- troversy - fans were required to mail in a 3120 postal order for four tickets they were not guaranteed they would receive. Those who did not win tickets in the lot- tery were given back their money. Mean- while, the money earned an estimated 51 million interest for the Jacksons. Word was that Michael himself shelved the idea of the ticket lottery. Another questionable call was when concert organizers asked area newspapers to run free ads containing the mail-order ticket coupons. . . . Two more milestone launches were recorded in the space shuttle program last year. One was the first untethered walk by man in outer space by mission specialist Bruce McCandless Cpictured belowj during the space shuttle Cflallelzgefs eight-day mis- sion. The other was the maiden voyage of the the shuttle Discovery, which was launch- ed Aug. 30 after three delays. NASA's shuttle program took a beating with the delays, one coming just four seconds before ignition, as commercial customers began questioning the feasibility of the program. The shuttle did perform well, deploying three satellites without a hitch - however, its toilet did freeze. fn. Forgiving One Reigning Beauty Her Age, But Not The Other Her Youth The Statue of Liberty Kpictured at top wearing her scaffoldl celebrated her 98th birthday this past year. In july, a two-year, S230 million restoration began to counteract the years of use and corrosion brought on by acid rain. By March of last year, over 368 million had been raised for the project and ads in national news magazines ran asking for grass roots-support - the kind that helped pay for the statue back in 1886. President Reagan announced the formation of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission, charg- ed with organizing fundraising for the effort. In 1983, Vanessa Williams fpictured at leftl was crowned as Miss America, becoming the first black woman in the history of the pageant to win the title. She is also the first woman to be forced to resign in the contest's 57-year history. Late last spring, Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, announc- ed he was publishing photos showing Williams in the nude and posed with another woman. Pageant officials, anxious to preserve the integrity of the contest, held a special meeting, but Williams resigned before a decision was announced. Pen- thouse sold out within three days of hitting the stands. 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'But the two things fsculpture and electronicsl hadn't met up when I started college. l'd let go of the idea of wanting to build radios and things like that. Then, dur- ing my senior year in sculpture, I decided I wanted to start incorporating the two.' Flechtner came to Wichita State University from Ohio, and received a master of fine arts degree from WSU in 1984. Integrating sculpture and electronics, he builds works of art that whirr and flash. They entice the viewer with light, color, sound and ac- tion. Tinkering with whimsical combina- tions of odd, disparate items is often how Iflechtner comes up with an idea for a piece. 'I collect a lot of things and just keep them around my studio,' he said. People bring me things, too - objects they find on the street. 'I'hey know I like strange little things. I keep them around, and sometimes I'll wonder what the significance is. . .then, every once in a while I'll find a certain dialogue with several items and I'll work a piece out from that. Some people have nicknamed him Mr. Mattel' because his sculptures re- mind them more of toys than of serious art. 'I get caught up sometimes wonder- ing if the things I do are sculpture or not, Flechtner said. I question sometimes if I'm notjust makings toys. But then I think, why can't toys be a serious form of art? 'I'here's a lot more thought behind my work than just making things to play with.' In some cases, an important part of the idea behind I lechtncr's sculptures is where they are to be presented. He said his favorite pieces have been his 'guerilla installations, works he created to be placed surreptitiously in buildings. 1-iC0f1tinued on page 300 - Story by Cass Brunner Photo by Madeline McCullough MICHAEL FLECHTNER P G Toying With Ideas, Sculptor Melds Electronics And Art ---ii K -- -..- '-kk- ' hhhA Z - ' . H- W Q x K 'M '- v..L.. A XM Q- , -K H - Y 1 fir Q g . f K X f- if 1 3 . K A N - Banks, Curtis Bannister, Lisa Bardhnn, Tridip Barkley. Slihfiflil BUFFET!! TCYCSH 5085, ROHQIC1 junior Freshman Sophomore Senior Freshman Continuing hd, . 5 E X Q i ll'-F-,J .... . Qi' - - iii: -L K we .ax g i! I K A- K Vlfilifil - K -A , -X -2- 1.155-1, Se- i X ,. X 2 - - if S N - in W ' kkkk . ' if 1 , ff? -' 3 T A--my K ri kkkr ' ' kk -1 f - , . ' N Lf . f in ,- i in X S i- 1 K3 ' - K X 2' 'A K K ..-'--1. 1 ..: K. 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She credits her independence to her up- bringing - being raised in a close-knit, large Catholic family. 'Mother always en- couraged us to be individuals and all six kids have distinct personalitiesf' Burke speaks affectionately about her parents. Her mother is a registered nurse and her father owned a trash business. 'The most important thing my parents gave me is respect for others, yourself and unconditional love that helps you in dealing with all the different people you meet. And somewhere along the way, they taught me to set goalsf' Burke graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in speech com- munications. But she started in nursing, dropped out, worked full time, changed schools, went back into nursing, and even- tually wound up in radio. She first became interested in journalism when she worked for a year at the Eagle-Beacon in the dispatch and advertising department. After that job, Burke attended Kansas Newman College for three semesters, but found the school too conservative. She worked on the school paperg in one issue an ad ran from the health department on pregnancy testing. The school's president objected and drew up guidelines for the newspaper. 'I decided it was time for me to get out - they weren't being realistic and were wearing blinders. It also reinforced my declining beliefs in the church.' So Burke came back to WSU, still torn between her two loves, nursing and jour- nalism. But radio won after she took a pro- duction course, and, later, anchoring the noon news. A few years ago Burke was an intern at KFDI. 'I got to meet all kinds of people from all walks of life and learned to be current with what is going on in the world. I even got to the point where I liked some of the music. When it comes to music, Burke's taste are a tad obscure - XTC, Wall of Voodoo, The Gun Club and Public Image Limited. She has ample opportunity to play alter- native rock as an After Midnight DJ. 'I abhor top-40 music. I don't think it's creative - they make it to sell it, and it's restrictive and contrivedf' Burke said there wasn't a big market for alternative rock in Wichita because people are not exposed to it. 'My format is con- stantly growing and my purpose is to ex- pose people to new music. Even if a record is not over-played, I get bored easi- ly. I'm always hungry for something new. Burke said she tries to put herself in the audience's place and doesn't play obscure music back-to-back. Some nights she has 30 requests and others only a few. 'I get comments from, 'I love what you're doing,' to, 'What is this shit?' ' Laughing, she said she tells disgruntled callers to listen to T-95. Although light-years removed from After Midnight, another integral side of Burke's life is her work at on the psychiatric floor at St. joseph Medical Center. 'I look forward to going to work - keep learning about others and yourself in the process. You see a few success stories and those keep you going. My work has helped me to change and given me the skills to make a change. I'm grateful for what I have, and for my support systems.' Now Burke is actively seeking employ- ment in radio news. 'I'd like to start in news somewhere, gain experience in that area and eventually move up to manage- ment in radio or TV.' But she admits, 'if I don't find a job in radio I might go back in- to nursing to support my radio habit. Seeking meaningful employment does have its drawbacks. Burke must tone down her somewhat outrageous style of dressing - everything from a leather mini skirt to a black and white, psychedelic 50s dress. 'I don't like to dress in what is. fashionable, but take fashion and apply it to myself. I dress to suit my moods, but now I have to conform somewhatf' Story by Kate Wintrol Photo by Madeline McCullough CHERYL BURKE Dressed To Kill, Dj Aims For A Career In News - t' tfgiit S 5 if I X 2 E X l When john Gaston, chairperson of minority studies, first attended Wichita State University, there was no minority studies program - not that that was what he Wanted to go into. When I started I really wanted to go to med school. I had been a medic in the service, and that's really want I wanted to do. MBut at that particular time, the financial support was not there, some of the opportunities that came later in the '60s were not available. I had to work, I was married, I had a family, and just simply could not afford to go to school full timef' Coming out of high school his job options were limited, so he volunteered. 'I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. The jobs that were available paid about a dollar an hour, I couldn't see myself doing that for the rest of my life. A lot of my friends were getting in trouble. My mother could not afford to send me to school. My hope for get- ting out was getting in the service, get- ting some training, some money. And I wanted to see the worldf' He came to WSU during a socially and politically confusing period, he said. There were demonstrations on campus, and he was involved in a sit-in in President Clark Ahlberg's office to protest general conditions. Thats when students were requesting something like a black studies depart- ment, more information about blacks in the curriculum, more opportunities, the whole bit. It was interesting because there weren't just blacks, there were whites, too. It was all peaceful compared to other parts of the country. But the Na- tional Guard was in Wichita, we had a curfew. The people called it a riot but to me it was just any weekend in Cleveland. 'iAt one time they were trying to get a branch of the Black Panther Party organized in Wichita. They had one in Kansas City, and they came down and gave a speech, trying to get organized. It never got off the ground.' While going to WSU, Gaston work- ed as a bill collector for Kansas Gas Service Co., which, he said, was a ---Continued on page 301 -1- Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Kenn Murphy JOHN GASTON P From Activist To Administrator, Teacher Still Fights Racial Bias 5. b .15 we is 'Q' K ' . X 0 ,D Boothe, Stacey Bowman, Chris Bradfield. Mia Bradshaw, Alison Bradshaw. Steven Brumhall, Brian ,lumor l'reshman l'reshman Freshman l'reshrnan Sophomore LL'L X is , - 2, LL-X Q- I it L,LL.LL ' .. .1 fa Q, . 'ggi . E , in Qi in , ' 1 --1 ' ' l N, - X K A is xi. 'iii .. Brant, Ted Brecheisen, Laurie Breckenridge, Eric Briggs, Juanita Brock, Randall Brown, Bill junior Graduate Freshman Graduate junior Senior -r--- N L s , sz, s sg - ' A 7. ,mx 6 Q 1 in s Q ,X . 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Ty Cornett, Chris Covell Fisher, Virginia Covington, Julie Cox, Bill Cqx eg Senior Sophomore Senior Freshman Sophomore Fig h ses- it 3, . -. Qs , .5 It I it S. jf:-173' .. I 'X--I -.. A 'l'Q'f'T: Cozad. Laura Sophomore Cox, Kimberly Freshman Cflllv ChfIQl0PhCf Cl-lmminli. Linda Curtis. Brian Daeschner .I I Graduate junior Freshman S While lecturing, Fred Benson frequently doffs his glasses and closes his eyes. He was telling a class about a case involving a woman who was charged with throwing her illegitimate baby off a bridge. 'I was saying, 'And what did the pro- secution accuse her of?' Well, I must have closed my eyes when walking because then I said, 'She threw the little bastard off the bridgel' I opened my eyes and I was standing out in the hallway. 'I had walked out the door. My class just roared. Classes were changing - the peo- ple in the hall looked at me like I was nuts. Benson added several students later came up to ask what class he was teaching because they wanted to enroll. Benson had always planned on being a laywer. When he was a small child he would tell his father that he was going to be a lawyer. He entered the legal profes- sion after getting an MBA and law degree from the University of Michigan. He practiced law in California for 15 years before moving on to Hawaii. 'There was a girl in Honolulu named Donna. She sent me a 'Dear john' letter that said, 'Dear Fred, You deserve the best but I'm no longer availablef It's hard to quarrel with a statement like that. Anyway, the Honolulu jaunt ended.' After working in Los Angleles he came to Wichita to visit a friend who was then the president of Friends University. 'I started teaching a class and lecturing at Friends, Benson said. 'I liked it so much, I interviewed at Wichita State University intending to teach for a year and got hooked. I never thought I'd love anything as much as law practice. I love law practice, but I deeply love teaching. He describes himself as a workaholic. 'If I were my wife, I'd divorce me.' His day usually starts at 5 a.m. and runs until mid- night. He teaches administration ofjustice classes as well as outreach classes. He is also a municipal judge for Park City, Garden City and Cheney, the state secretaryftreasurer of the Kansas Municipal judges Association, and works with the Wichita Police Department. 'When I worked for the Cdistrict at- torney'sJ office in LA, there were 86 con- tiguous cities, so there were 86 police departments, one sheriffs department and one state highway department. I really cut my eye-teeth on police departments and I enjoy working with the police here. I think they definitely deserve more pay - like teachers - and there should be more recognition for the work they do. 'Paul Garofalo was one of my students. He was in class on Tuesday and killed on Friday. O'Brien, the state trooper that was assassinated, was also one of my students. I've had incidents like that and I think every time these guys put on a uniform they become targets.' Benson also is the pre-law adviser for WSU and a University College adviser. He said he has about 85 law students at Washburn University, about 85 at the University of Kansas and about 80 others scattered throughout the country. That's pretty good considering how hard it is to get into law schoolf' He is active in the University Methodist Church and teaches a Sunday school class. He is also a volunteer and chairman of the board for the Wichita Radio Reading Ser- vice, a service for the print handicapped. 'For seven years, every Tuesday morn- ing at nine, I've been headlines and obituaries. They have get-togethers for the blind people and they'll come up and identify you by your voice. They'll say, 'Oh, you're headlines and obituariesf ' Over the years, a number of campus stories about Benson have surfaced. Ben- son said that, unfortunately, they are true. Like the time his car backed over him at his apartment complex when he stopped to have lunch with some people. 'My car started rolling down the hill. I put my butt up against it, thinking I was Superman, and it backed over me and tore all my clothes off. They rushed me to the hospital. It was a wonder I wasn't killed, but all I had were bruises and for the first and last time in my life - knock wood - I was in the hospital over spring break. The accident happened a day before an exam. 'I tried to call each kid and tell them there would be no exam because my car backed over me. Finally I stopped calling because they were all laughing so hard.' Story by Marla Wahl Photo by Kenn Murphy FRED BENSON Workaholic Combines Love Of Teaching With Love Of Law After 45 years at Wichita State Universi- ty, professor emeritus Eugene Spangler, the founder of Theatre Services Depart- ment, is finally taking a break from academia. Spangler began his WSU career in 1939 after completing the master's program in television at University of lowa. 'I always intended to do design and technical theatre,' Spangler said. Ml did my undergraduate work here CWSUJ in music. But it was my intent to go on to graduate school and get into the television business. It was in its infancy then, as you know. After finishing my master's in lowa, they brought me back here, because they were ready to go into television at that time here.' After teaching design and technical direction for several years, Spangler was made chairman of his department. 'In the meantimef' he explained, 'the business of logistics for public events got so large, and the speech and theatre department was being requested to do so many things out- side their own program, that ljust decided that this had to be pulled out of the depart- ment.' Forum lectures, dance programs, con- certs, and all the various public events at WSU were hindering the academic pro- grams of speech and theatre. In 1958 Spangler founded the new department of Theatre Services, only the second such department in the nation, to handle the technical business of these events. Several divisions were formed within the pioneer department. Centralized pur- chasing, a scene shop, a recording studio, and electronics maintenance are some of the activities now handled by Theatre Ser- vices. Spangler himself was most active in the building program, which aided in the planning of lighting, acoustics and sound equipment for all WSU buildings. He also managed to find time to design a few shows for the university theatre and do some limited outside consulting. 'You probably couldn't do now what a number of people my age have done, he said. 'Theyive just kind of grown up with the industry. There was a lot of on-the-job training, because there was nowhere else to get the training.' As a graduate of the first year of the first master's program in television at a time when audio academic study didn't exist, Spangler has seen these fields expand, and now doctoral programs are abundant. 'Of course the academic expansion couldn't have taken place without the technical advances,' Spangler said. 'But it really relates to the addition of television as a new medium, and its wider accep- tance. The record business has seen a similar expansion as it's gained accep- tancef' Retiring has allowed him to 'catch up' on personal and family business, but he plans to do some more audio consultation. 'I just want to pace it, he added, 'so it doesn't turn into a fat race - which is what l've had for a long while. Right now, l've been so busy that I've been thinking of coming back to work so l can rest upl' Story by Christopher Craig Photo by Kenn Murphy P G Building The Foundagggqgfgeiggdgfggcgi r - r. .r ' - ' - Q 1 - . gwr ul iff E. .3 ,y x,s..,' I .5 . 55313525 . 'N -e li gf K A ,S 2 - A ,, A-M f -Q -- K Ii? S g TY LL-- .... S ' 5 is ' saws S S ' raoa F e Dagenhart. Cheryl Fresh man Davis, Bren! Freshman Davis, Sheryl Freshman Davis, Viola junior Dawoodi, May Freshman Dearinger, Michelle Freshman Decoek, Carol Senior M3 hqixro . .... Q HT Sgfff-ff55f . X -ffis . soigfflfiiff ' . ' Q X X i 5 - x '. -'25-'R M--r .o . mrlvrs A Q A K 55. Dejmal, Lyle Sophomore Demel, Gregory junior .MBIS 1 Denning, Dan Freshman Derstine, Ronda Sophomore Derstine, Timothy Senior o. , ,y we . us. N may X 1' ,rm S ff 3 .. - Y Y - Q' ' S ya i Yi: i .. 2 I t J 'ix 1 Q K X - f ' - .. 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Fieser, Fredrick Fleming, Janice Flesher, Matthew Fly, Robin Fortney, Kri lina Fo ter, Brett Senior Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Freshman Sophomore , X ' . ' - .. .Kf ' 1 'ffjfk ap 14 sv- ,mpg S .. X K sg! j ll liltwrr yi .k.. S. 1 -2? elf? as Sf' .H V' , ..,.. , A 'Q ,- H :.V ..,... . , .. . V xnxx X , .. t Mx., - XY sa, s. I Q I 3 a Q l .2 . Foster, Brian ' I Fowler, Traci Fox, Elaine Franz, Diane Frazier, Linda Frazier, Susan Freshman Freshman Sophomore Graduate junior Freshman Su'ad Awab was a couple of weeks late getting to her first class at Wichita State University from Malaysia. Ml was late because they forgot about us. My sponsor forgot that there was another group com- ing to Wichitaf' Awab was given a scholarship by her country to attend classes so she could teach English as a second language when she returns to Malaysia. She and nine other women were chosen because of their scholastic achievements and were sponsored by the Ministry of Education. She enjoyed her first four months here while in the Intensive English program because all she did was socialize with the other women Malaysian students. They spent most of their time together as a group. We were known as the 10 Malaysian girls. They didn't even know our names. So I was glad to get out of Intensive English because then we met other people in our classes and people got to know us individually. She knew English before coming to the United States - her family often spoke English at home - so she isn't sure why she was put in Intensive English because she did well on the proficiency exam. But I have a sneaky feeling that they wanted to get money from us, but I'm not sure. I think they may have thought that since we were in English it would be a good experience for us. I did learn a little bit, but not much.' Awab said she is something of a rebel compared to the students. She decided to make an effort to meet other people outside of the clique on campus. She took two campus jobs, the first step in establishing her in- dependence. 'I started to go places on my own, do things on my own. We used to go see in- structors in pairs or in threes, we even walked to school together, eat together, shop together. And then, bit by bit, as I started working I found I had my own schedule and had to do things on my own. And that's when I decided to notice that there are people out there. 'When I was walking with another Malaysian, I didn't feel that I was in Wichita. I forgot that there were totally different surroundings. That's how I began to establish myself. Then I started to like it because I saw the results. Like, I joined the Honors Program. I was the first Malay- sian student to do that ever at this univer- sity. And then, about a semester later, all my friends joined the program at one time. I was glad I was there first. 'I always feel like I'm in the middle. I have to be with my Malaysian friends, but I also need other friends, non-Malaysian. I just have to do that. It will be easier when I know which way to go. But now I want to have both worlds.' Last year, Awab began wearing a veil as her religion became more important to her - both of her parents are religion teachers. But she decided to adhere to her own strong values for guidance on how to other Malaysian act and who she would be. 'When you start to cover yourself you have to be committed. You can't wear it one day and take it off the next if you don't like it.' She has been told that some of the Malaysian men consider her stuck-up, which bothered her at first. But when I found myself - well, I haven't found all of me, yet - I found that it didn't matter. Things like that don't matter because there are other important things to be con- cerned with, not what people think of you. 'Some are so condescending. Like how men are, 'Your place is at home.' That really bothers me. They cannot accept me for what I am, and why should I change to suit their tastes? That includes Americans, too. In a technical writing class she took, she was the only English major among business students, as well as the only foreign stu- dent. They think I'm a dumb international student. But we were put in a group to identify parts of speech. They were argu- ing and arguing, and I said, 'No, it's passivef They just brushed me off. I thought, 'Shit, man, you don't know who you're dealing with.' I got my revenge when I got my quiz back. She said she is competitive because she considered herself to be a failure in high i--Continued on page 3017i Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough SU'AD AWAB Finding Her Own Path, Future Professor Is A Rebel gs ,Q r . e' -X 1, is- ss, Q i ' f Y S Q A ' ,S YL - .t 'j:!5f ,:, ' ' I-rey, Scott Fritz, Ruben Fuhr, Joseph Gahrielson, Nils Gamelson, Julie Garrett, Greg Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Senior Senior Senior 'J 1, is fvsfsgl - ag, +5122 1 JFS .... r A fi ' N-K ' f . 2 ii ' A '13 rttrf trtt 1 S, . S N W. M 'r'r- f - . is ,E xxx-. F- '---'- Qi i Q - i Qffifs.:-i i s x X, 1 fri A i I ix ' X s I xii K . Kgs, Wsisakj he .MN 3 Qi , . P -. 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Hacker, Russell Hadley, Christopher - Haider, Syed Haigler, David Haist, Edna Haist, Mark Senior Freshman ' Graduate F Freshman junior ,lunior There isn't one word that can adequate- ly describe what jimmy I,ytton does. He's a sculptor, builder, designer, carpenter, rennovator and collector of all sorts of odds and ends, especially old building materials. His work and his lifestyle defy strict specialization - and he likes it that way. He owns a Wichita business called Craftmaster. When asked what kind of business it is, he hesitates to pin it down to one thing. 'We're designers and builders. We do some restoration, some rennovation and some new building -just about the whole gamut. We've done about everything there is to do as far as different building techni- ques and periods are concernedf' Over the past ten years or so, Lytton and his crew have rennovated several stately old buildings for downtown businesses, including the Looking Glass, the Marple Theatre and the Old Mill Tas- ty Shop. Craftmaster is headquartered in an old cinder block building on Wabash street. 'You can't miss it.' The structure is painted a funky pinkish-orange and theres a larger-than- life cow's head hanging jauntily over one door. When he bought the place it was quite dilapidated. He had to build a new roof and then converted the south end in- to an apartment for himself, devoting the rest to office and workshop space. Inside the workshop, and in the cour- tyard out back, is an incredible hodge- podge of stuff - old signs, pieces of neon tubing, stacks of antique woodwork, machinery and tools, last year's entry in the bathtub race, an enormous brass fix- ture from a church - the list goes on in- definitely. And there's a story behind jalmost every item. 5 Lytton lived in Kansas City and studied jsculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute i after he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts jdegree at Wichita State University. He jsaid he started doing remodeling work in jKansas City Mas a matter of necessity' iwhile he was a student. The work sup- plemented his art, and allowed him, as he jput it, Mto put bread on the table. Craft- lmaster evolved after he moved back to Wichita as a natural outgrowth of his ex- periences. There are some things I hate about be- ing in businessf' Lytton said, 'but for- tunately I have someone to do all the paperwork. He tells me whether I can spend any money or not. I'm working myself closer and closer to the situation where I don't have to take all the jobs lim offered - I can be selective. It's neat when you don't just do something because it's dollars - you do it because you want to.' Although he'd like to have more time to devote to sculpture, Lytton said he likes the variety in his work and finds it rewar- ding to be able to see the finished results of his efforts. Sometimes you do something and you just stand back from it and say, 'Wowl' It's like you've gone beyond yourself. And when you get paid for it, it's even more satisfying' Story by Cass Brunner Photo by Madeline McCullough P O Defying Description, Artist QM ZC ITfJaEeTyrTi1C?.ThT-3 Possibly the most difficult part of col- lecting folklore for PJ. Wyatt has been getting people to believe she was not try- ing to sell anything. 'I got in one town and some young woman selling magazines had been through the town the week before,' Wyatt, an instructor in English and resi- dent folklorist, said. She was doing the same thing, going up to people and talk- ing to them. But she was trying to sell magazines, and almost every question when people saw me at the door was, 'What are you selling? I had to say, Tm not selling anything,' to people so often that I named my thesis 'I'm Not Selling Anythingf ' Wyatt has been teaching folklore for the past Z0 years. She said folklore can be proverbs, superstitions, songs, jokes, home remedies, anything that is orally passed down from generation to genera- tion. 'Folklore goes back 600 years. It is non-institutionalized knowledge, things we know, but don't learn from books. She got interested in the study of folklore while attending the University of Indiana. 'It was about my fourth year of college, and all college had been about was reading and books. I felt there must be something else. Then I went to a stu- dent English club meeting, and they were singing folk songs, and I realized that it was about people, not only books.' Folklore is genuine for Wyatt because it is human, it is kept alive by people. QI think that's where it's at. Humanism is the basic art, life is not in the book.' To collect folklore, Wyatt had to develop a sense of trust in her subjects. 'You treat people like human beings. I say to someone, 'I-Iey, I don't know you but do you happen to know any songs or any cures for coughs, any cures for an earache, or something like that?' They may carry on casually, and pretty soon, when they know I'm not going to sell whatever they say to me, we kind of become friendly. You trust them, and they get to trust you, and that's how you start collecting' The best subjects were older and rural- living people, Wyatt said, because they usually have more information to relate thanothers. AOlder people, retired people have the time to think about this kind of thing. After you go back a second time, they are easier to talk to.' Wyatt said that folklore is prevalent everywhere, even on college campuses. A popular tale has been how professors ar- rive at a grade by throwing blue books in the air and those on top get the highest grade. Folklore is not as popular as it once was, Wyatt said, because of the technological lifestyle of the present society. 'Folklore in the '60s and '70s was a very strong subject in universities, but now it's not. Eventually we will swing back to the grass-roots type of learning, and, in another decade, we'll get tired of this hard-type lifestyle and get back to nature.' Story by Brenda Gray Photo by Kenn Murphy PJ WYATT P Keeping In Touch With Humanity By Collecting Traditions 'Vp V, if f , 4 V ' 'F 2 1 7 i If- ' ' ' s , ,f I , 2, X l i ,M ii, , , llajeer, Jahed lajian, Abbas Hall, David Hall, Gib Hall. 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'Emigrating was very difficult but actual- ly I was luckier than many others. I was one of the last. Right now the emigration has reached almost zero.' After losing his job and his apartment at the University of Khabarsk in eastern USSR, Fridman finally succeeded in leav- ing his native Ukraine for New York. After a year as a visiting professor at the Univer- sity of Michigan in Flint, he applied for and received his present position at WSU. Fridman has found the American academic system much different. In the Soviet Union a student Chooses a career and then cannot change his mind. Educa- tionally they start out better but American students catch up. 'I once taught a course fin the U.S.J for right out of high school. Of the - about 40 - I had about 10 who knew Calculus I, some of just barely knew how to solve students students students the rest quadratic equations, and others could just barely multiply. So what I did was to ex- plain everything from scratch. lt's very dif- ficult to work with students when you have such a wide range in their knowledge levels. 'I like the academic system of the universities here in the United Statesf' he added. 'I like the flexibility, l like that the student can at any time change his or her mind. l sometimes see people coming to study just for pleasure. This is greatl' Although American life has been new and different for Fridman, he feels he and his family have adjusted easily. Of course you have to bear in mind that this was my first trip abroadf' he said. For over 35 years I was only in the Soviet Union. It is quite a different life here. I had to learn everything here. At first I didn't know what a check was. But l'm talking about little things. Of course the biggest adjustment was the new languagef' But he does feel he's been lucky in meeting new people willing to help him. Y Although Fridman has found little dif- ficulty in keeping in touch with friends and family in the Soviet Union, he says he still feels isolated from them. 'The most desperate thing which I feel right now,' he said, 'is that I will probably never see my friends again. I don't think I will ever be allowed to go back, and I don't want to go back. But I am anxious to see my friends. 'Of course fleavingj was a tough deci- sion. When you are born in a country, you know the language and are very comfor- table. I had a jobg I graduated from the best university in the Soviet Union. At first look, I had to be happy - but I wasn't. And so I decided to move. Story by Christopher Craig Photo by Kenn Murphy BUMA F RIDMAN P Soviet Mathematician Escapes To Freedom Of The United States Kaspar, Suzanne Kaufmann, Heidi Kay, Frances Kelley, Susan Kelley, Terry Kemp, Donna junior Senior Freshman Graduate Freshman Senio 'Wit' ' 3 , , y . 4 ,H Kellemer. Robert Kerschen, Thomas Ketron, Chris Keyser, Rebecca Kidd, Brent King, David Freshman Freshman Freshman Senior Sophomore Senior Don't ask Lynn Winget, professor of Romance Languages, how many languages he speaks. 'I hate that question with a passion. I feel like I've turned into a. piece of linguistic folklore around here, and that has never been my intention. People come to me and say, 'Oh, is it real- ly true that you speak 37 languages? Ijust mention that figureg it's different every time. It might be 14, it might be 21, it might be nine. 'Another reputation I seem to have ac- quired is of great modesty. l'm told I sell myself short. Not at all. I'm a monster of pride and conceit. If I really was fluent in 54 languages, and I thought that was more than most people, I would be delighted to glory in the fact, and boast of it, and so on. 'I have never tried to pose as somebody with an exceptionally wide language knowledge. The only thing I can figure out why all this gets started is that I like languages, and if I have a chance to learn something about some language I didn't know before, I take advantage of it. And if the bits of esoteric linguistic knowledge that you acquire can be put to use, why not? Maybe that's how this myth grew up, I don't know. Winget's love of languages started when he was growing up on his family's farm in Western Kansas. He started by reading his mother's unabridged dictionary. 'As long as I can remember, ever since I was a little kid, I thought languages were fascinating. I used to study the best I could, which probably wasn't very well, on PGRTRAIT my own before I ever took any in classes. just anything that had to do with languages, I thought was fascinating' Winget received his undergraduate degree in Spanish with a French and Ger- man minor from the University of Wichita, and his master's and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. He came back to WSU 'because they offered me a job.' That was in the summer of 1961, and he's been here ever since, loving it. 'The impression I had was that if you wanted to devote your life to foreign languages and make a living at it, that meant teaching. So I didn't go into it because I'd always thought I wanted to be a teacherg I went into it because I'd always been interested in languages. 'Fortunately - and it couldn't be more fortunate, I feel very lucky - when I got into it, I discovered that teaching was a lot of fun. I don't know what I would have done if I'd discovered that I hated it, but still liked foreign languagesf' He also has taught Russian, having studied it in 'the weirdest of places. His first formal class was in Norway. 'It looks pretty funny, a Russian textbook written in Norwegianf' In 1979 he went to Germany for a course, but the instuctor didn't speak a word of German so the class translated class announcements. 'In the spring semester of 1981, I was on sabbatical, and I was living in Madrid and I took private lessons from a Russian woman. If you're going to have conversa- tion, obviously you have to have something to converse about, and I was trying to tell her about Kansas. I told her about the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy, and she said, 'Oh, she had a little dog, didn't she? A little dog, his name was Totoshkaf I thought that was kind of nice, the way they had russianized Toto.' One thing that usually intrigues many people about Winget, besides his linguistic knowledge, is his first name. 'I hate that name. I've always hated it all my life, and when I tell people that, they assume it's because it's also used as a girl's name. The only thing, when I was a kid, it hadn't yet become popular as a girl's name. Nobody was named that. There was one other boy that was named that and I didn't like him anyway, so that wasn't any help. But when they started using it as a girl's name, that didn't do anything to help. I get all this mail to 'Ms. Lynn Winget,' and things urg- ing me to join the 'Soul Sisters' of some famous undertaking. 'At least I fared better than my brother. I won't tell you what his name is, because one of his friends might read the Par- nassus, and he doesn't want anyone to know what his real name is. Somehow he got everyone to call him 'Petef But my father was very fond of Emerson, so maybe that can give you an idea what my brother's name is. Story by Ty Morgan Photo by Kate Wintrol 4 2 -1 :Gia q i 7 , .saw IM .V - ' 1, J . - ,, ' .' fi , -41 fk..' , 3:1 ' ' ' King, Melanie Kirk, Rim Klnusscn, Hrcndu Klock, llonuld Knickerbocker, Luc Ann Knudsun, Manic l'rcshm.in Mcxhrnan ifrcshnun Suphuliwrc Scniur Suphulnurc 6 fi if M pi. L Q I 'Q' L a af ' V A -v. i . f, .. , W- ,L ., Q ' - , 'f A V Vyyk 1 Eg- ' nv 755 Q ' f , ' ' 'gk ,,i. -, A W . rmuai I www wi , Koehler. Ken! Suplmnmrc Ruhr, Cathy junior 3.5, Krculzcr, Robert I-'rcshmm Krug, Audrey junior Krug,I'un1clu Scnlur 57-H y, W1 sg , QW' as a wk ,M 51 Q Kuhlman, Kim Scmur LYNN WINGET Po1yglot's joy With Languages Leads Back To Midwest When john Rydjord, former dean of the graduate school and professor emeritus of history, toured the battlefields of World War I right after the war, he saw first-hand how devastating war could be. He took pictures of shell craters, trenches and hastily-dug graves - one had part of a boot still uncovered. He tried to ignore the carnage, But it made me switch from music to history, however, because I wondered what the heck it was all aboutf' Rydjord did not want to be a infan- tryman. He intended to be a stretcher bearer when he joined the army, but because of his talents as a clarinet player he was assigned to a military band in the First Division under General john sl. Per- shing. MI didn't want to kill Germans. All the Germans I knew were nice people, and to kill them because they were Ger- mans didn't make sense to me even then - it still doesn't, by the way. I was in France and Britain and in the occupational army in Germany, and didn't have time to find out about the nature of war until recently because I've been so busy writing other books. But I did finally write a book on warf' His book, Heading for the Holomust - XI Hismfjy of War, concludes that war, as a way of settling disputes, is nonsense, a view he's long held. 'It was World War II more than anything else that made me realize how utterly stupid it is. We fought a war to put an end to wars. We have to substitute legal and international organiza- tions to settle our difficulties, because war doesn't settle them.' Rydjord grew up on a farm in South Dakota. He read nearly everything the local library had to offer, but planned to remain on the farm. But some of his teachers encouraged him to go on to high school which, back then, was like atten- ding college. It was in high school that he considered being a musician. He said he was shown where to put his fingers on the clarinet, and picked it up that way. He learned the violin in an even more un- conventional fashion. I was working for a hardware store, and ran a nail through my foot. I had to lie in bed with nothing to do. So I had my sister bring me her violin, and learned to play in bed. Next fall I played violin in the high school orchestra. You d0n't have to run a nail through your foot to learn to play the violin, but it helpsf' After high school he taught at a country school for a year. For geography, I took the kids outdoors. We used the schoolhouse as a base, and drew the lines from the road to their homes from that location, which was the center of the world to us. He later went to the University of Wisconsin where he got his baccalaureate, then to Northwestern University for his master's, and the University of California, Berkeley for his doctorate. I-Ie taught at Berkeley for a summer before accepting a faculty position in history, specializing in Latin American studies, at the newly- founded University of Wichita in 1926. He said he's seen every transitional change, and all the struggles the university has endured. The hardest years were dur- ing the Depression when salaries were cut 10 percent one year, then to 20 percent the next. -Continued on page 3 00-1- Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Kenn Murphy JOHN RYDJORD P University's Troubleshooter Still Collecting Facts, Not Dust .fx K 41 ' Q , Q 'F X-f -N K . . f . - ' r .-LL Y . S H ' X . A, A. 1 .L p - . Q ' ' . , if ,rf K, Kllflmflky- Troy Kurz. Toni Labra, Tito Lackey, Ronda Laird, Milton Lamhright, Roy Sophomore Sophomore Freshmar Senior Sophomore ' Senior - b 5 .X w ig , X . f--we S PS . HA..s: ?f X .X-f 1 ' 11, f f K . R S 7 . - ,Q -Iw- Liindii. Dfufin Landis, Gregrey Lane, Anthony Lane, Stephanie Laney, Chris Senior Laney, Susan lUnl0f Senior Sophomore Scn-f-' Linn, Mary Senior Senior --N 5.1, . . . L 2 .ffl 3 V . K D w, W5 X 5 - K ' . s is 1 1' Lansdowne, Chalwin Larson, Caryn Lavin, James Lea, Eugene LeBlanc, Kenneth Leone, Michelle Freshman Freshman junior Irma.-f Freshman junior Q K are L J r , ... X . ,X .sd x X ' E f X ' - fs? 1 - - Y Q ,--A ff lv . - iii' ' ii pw- , '7 Q' ' 'N ' ' ' like M nfs: , ' 1 1 5' S M Cl .Q 2 0 , ,rg , Leslie. Qhilrlelle Lewis, Judith Lewis, Steven Lewis, Trecia Lieu, Chin Linnebur, Vicki l-rcshman Senior Senior Senior Freshman Freshman 2 e , s ssre f L s X 5 L 5-Q T 5' 1 -, v X ,K 1 Q51 545- M, . X 4 - - - 2 W 1. N.. ,M Lister. Dmfid Loney, Stephanie Long, Connie Longsworth, Paul Lopez, Jon Lopez, Richard SCDIOY Sophomore Sophomore Senior Freshman Sophomore :gk 1 L., f ,. as Q A sser I 1 f . :uf ' . . f .. s - kj i 4 Q i f A M Q FQ -, J 'Z f .z . r 1 Lorenz. Elise Louis, Daniel Ludiker, Christopher Lusk, Dorothy Lyons, Carol Lytle, Paul Sophomore Freshman Freshman Continuing lid. Graduate Graduate 1 ':. 5:f5,E' f V if 1 '7 , ,, 1. W W I? 1-.2-5 f ff, .W .1 1270 1 if f 14, , 4 I . 1 .1 , ,JW f I 4 X I 1 ,f 1 , of 1 if go Mus hehe, Belxcdic! lumor ,7, 1 ,: , , , , rrrrrr ',,, W , Vff, fr J, 'f: ia??f 'Lfh,' ' 'f5ff,,:??Zj I X H ' if - rrrlakgxiaeff-awfw' , rr ,,. H Q, 33 A, ' ' z 'ga ,rf Q e Q gg 2 512315-' V Mackay . Brent Sophomore Mahchn Audellu Manu Paul J umur Iumor Mali, Sunil Freshman 1 5 1 f ki- ,WL ff 1 17 f 1114 K W 1 ff? J 4 9 1 L, , A Mallonec, Mark junior 3 ' V ,r,, , Manion, Daniel Freshman Mann, Mary Freshman 1-7 f mf? Li H 1 Mans, S 11 Kim Mansuuri. Saeed cmor Senior ,, ,fr ,r,, ,fl,', I ,,VV,, ' 1' ' , 'MZZQTM rf' 2 ,1 , mm I 1 fffi V , ,A,,Q, V ,LW ,. , W , :jQ:.iZ,fg: .ff r,w,tAN Q Munz, Kari Graduate 'wi ' ' U 521911 H aa 1 lf! X 1 f 1 I 1 ,ff ww-I , at an , ' . . .,, W, , , M ,, ,QF . rg, vmwfw Mnrcum, Susanne Freshman PORTRAIT Q. . ms rise tess so ' I -1 , N e,f ' ,.. . E 1 ' 0 ja -k:- K F, . . S .nt S f 5. I Marshall, Rebecca Martens, Rod Martin, Angela Martin, Michael Martin. Susan Musun, Jaqueline Continuing Ed. Freshman Freshman Freshman Sophomore Iunior . 1 c - t hhiini .Q ' .. .- s at Muleyec. Martina Mau. Nancy Maxwell, Beth Mayfield, Gary McClellan, Christopher Mclloskey. Anita Sophomore junior Senior Senior Freshman Senior In his senior year at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, some of Glenn Holmes' compositions were performed at a local music festival. Walter Mays, professor of Musicology!Composition at Wichita State University, was also present and duly im- pressed by Holmes' work. 'As a result of that, I was invited to come out here to go to graduate school in compositionf' Holmes said. 'There was also a teaching assistantship offered to me and since I didn't have any plans, I manag- ed to squeeze it into my life's schedulef' So in 1978, Holmes graduated from Miami University with degrees in perfor- mance and composition and came to WSU to specialize in composition. He also taught applied music to university students on electric bass, although his principle instrument is the acoustic bass. Though his training is in classical perfor- mance, Holmes also enjoys playing jazz. With the contacts he made in the music department, he quickly became a part of the jazz community in the Wichita area. Having played with jerry Hahn, Bill Unrau, Tom Fowler, and currently with the Craig Owens Band, he has become possibly the most respected and most sought-after jazz bassist in Wichita. 'I like to get into a group where I'm the weakest player, so I have to really work on my musicianship in order to keep up. I felt that way when I came here and started playing with jerry. I felt like that was one of the greatest learning experiences that I've had. 'For example, we'd play something that he knew was faster than I could handle and the next week we'd come back and play that same tune either just as fast or faster. The first time I fell on my face and figured, 'Well, he'll slow down next week 'cause he knows I canit play it that fast'. . . and ofcourse he didn't. So, in his own way he was letting me know, 'lt's not going to get any slower just because you can't play it'. So I had to start getting my chops together so I could hang in there and play those things well.' In addition to all his extra gigs, Holmes' university duties Caside from teachingl in- cluded being a member of the Faculty jazz Quartet, performing in student and faculty recitals, directing the jazz Arts II Ensem- ble, and playing with visiting guest artists through the guest artist program, Holmes has been able to perform with great jazz players including Andy Narell, David Friedman and Rich Matteson. In the spring of 1984, Holmes' faculty position, which he had held since l98l, was terminated. Performance majors in electric bass were forced to take up their studies with a new instructor. Although many are still privately taught by Holmes, no college credit is given. Since leaving WSU, Holmes has once , again been able to concentrate on com- position. He has written a piece for unac- companied viola, and is choosing a publisher under the advice of colleagues. 'You could probably count on one finger the number of pieces that have been writ- ten for that idiom. I think you have a bet- ter chance of getting something like that published and performed because there are violists out there who want viola music. And if they don't have to round up any extra musicians, it's easier to performf' By contrast, Holmes also enjoys writing for large and unusual groupings of in- struments. This was the basis for a com- position he is writing for electric bass and percussion ensemble. A piece he hopes one day to perform with j.C. Combs and the WSU Percussion Ensemble. 'Maybe that'll be one of those times that l'll come back here and perform with themf' To play the piece would require Holmes to come back to Wichita, as he is planning a move to Atlanta, Ga., this summer. He realizes the difficulty in relocating, especially as a composer. At WSU, the 'buddy system' of finding performers let him create pieces for multiple voicings while not paying the musicians. When he moves, he won't have that option. Whatever occurs, he is confident in his future as a performerlcomposer. l'll make new contacts, l'm sure. I have an old buddy from Ohio who lives there now who can probably put me in touch with some people. But I'll make it: l'll pro- bably always be a musician, and l'll pro- bably always be poor because of it.' Story by TA Thompson Photo by Madeline McCullough GLENN HOLMES Walking A Bass Line Leads Composer Out Of Wichita 3 f. -10 'H X if :J .P EN 2 McElrath, Kelli Freshman L. McElroy, Ricky junior Mclilwain, Tom junior Sf V ie? s .'f:II:5ilF13.'-,. 'fs McGee, Maurice Freshman McGill, Erin junior McGinnis, Rita Senior . .W is i . - s f 1 et . N I Liimglvs Q fs t McHenry, Km-en McKay, Kimberly McLain, Kathi McLeland, Kim McMichael, Lee Ann McPherson, Melinda junior Freshman Freshman Freshman Senior Freshman i ' heee S or 'lof i A A f t 1 Q-may . Q - . Nga .X Q , Q xtbk, X X Sl' . f- Ylef- Ng fi ' i fi Meharaj-Din, Mujahid Freshman Meier, Kathryn Sophomore Menzie, Kendall Freshman Mihalakis, Amy Sophomore Miklos, Sharon Freshman Miller, Angela Senior 3 N? f X AMX qw ak? x Miller, Cheryl Sophomore Q-, Q a Miller, Eldon junior Miller, Harree Freshman Miller. J. Sophomore Xi x 13 K Q st X s N Xe X w X 5 .1 Wx t X . 5 . .eq ff- as io.. K Yi - . X. Q ' fx- 'sr I S R V . .s E K ' XX at Miller, Jennifer Sophomore TEEN 1' as x it 3 ts, 555 i 9 X V ef? S s Q, S Miller, Laurie Freshman Miller, Scott Sophomore Miller, Todd Sophomore Mills, Julie Senior X 1 . X QM, E Q is Minde n, Michelle Sophomore Mock, Garth Freshman as Mogab, Michael Sophomore i ' 'T??'iE??E Y XX 5 X .kii ,Xi Y. 2' -is . is is . Mohd-Yatim, Halim Sophomore - A K - Ygsiiffox . iiiiit ox XS Xxx :f s. , -7 :fir E55 Nx Mohd-Yusoh, Azmi Sophomore ssfgqgggi .--f-- ii .- as iiii ' w s . ig .E . if Montford, Brian Montgomery, David junior i Sophomore Moore. Robert junior Moreno, Diana junior If Vickie Strawder couldn't dance, she'd like to be a dental assistant. I know that sounds weird but that's what I'd always thought I'd like to do, just as a job here in Wichita. If I could really go for it, though, I'd get into acting - acting and singing' Right now, though, the Z9-year-old, 5-foot-4-inch, 104-pound dance major is busy teaching dance classes, taking classes and finishing up her degree, and preparing for her senior concert. She's been attending Wichita State University off and on for 11 years. 'When I was 18, my dad wanted me to go to college, so I said 'OKI' I had no idea what I was going to take, nothing. l took my first dance class here and liked it. I just kept taking one class after another. I would dance off and on. Sometimes I'd drop out for like eight months, then l'd go ahead and take some classes and then quit. I lik- ed doing other things, too, so I wasn't totally into dance until I was about 25. 'I used to love to ride motorcycles, and just run around. I just did whatever I wanted to. All I wanted to do was ride a motorcycle around for the rest of my life, get a little job, make a little money, and then travel on. Then when I started taking dance, I realized that dance was what I wanted to do. I didnt start getting my degree until I was about 26, so l'm really getting out early.' During those years, she has sup- ported herself in various ways. l've been a parking lot attendant, I've been on the grounds crew here at WSU, I worked as a juvenile officer for three years, I've worked as a clerk, as a waitress. I've choreographed fashion shows, and dances for churches. I've done all kinds of things. You name it, I've done it. She has also done modeling around town and once posed for the top photographer of Playboy for a modeling demonstration. 'I was asked to do a spread later, but just couldnt. I just didn't want to have that dumb blonde imagef' She said she enjoyed modeling because it was like acting, but she gave it up. 'I got tired of being thought of as 1- Cbfztinum' on page 300 Story by Ty Morgan Photo by Kate Wintrol 3 5 il 5 2 , i l VICKIE STRAWDER P Homebody Dancer Sinks Her Teeth Into Choreography Cheryl Capps believes that art is life and art is everywhere. 'The wonderful thing about an artist is that society allows more freedom and license to the artist - I like that freedom. Capps is the art director for The Wehitan magazine. Her job consists of putting together all the ads, deciding which stories have color photos, finding or making the props for photo illustrations, as well as coming up with ideas for stories. 'I never had trouble finding ideas for The Wehitan - they're not always good but that's where the refining comes in. You need to have an idea, but be able to amend it when something else comes along.' She was recently honored for a cover of The Wiehitan on teenage drinking. Although it was a last-minute job, it was chosen from 20,000 to be in the regional issue of Print Magazine, which features the best work from the area. Capps, a general studies graduate, gain- ed experience as art director for the 1981 Pamassus. Working for a magazine is quite different than a college yearbook. 'You PGRTRAIT can't party as much - we would finish one page in the book and go to Kirby's, she said with a straight face. 'But the basic skills you learn are the same - you just do it faster.' Capps grew up in Arkansas and describes herself as an independent coun- try girl who had a lot of freedom as a child. 'Even in grade school I liked visual things and would rather draw than read as a youth. In high school I was the papier mache queen. I arranged the chicken wire for all the floats - a primitive begining. 'The primitive, untrained eye sees the truth better. You must be careful not to be so professional that you miss art in its true sense.' Capps said that her family aided her ar- tistic inclinations. 'My brother was real ar- tistic and he and my father were creative thinkers, she recalled. Her brother taught her how to build fiber glass canoes and for two years she made, rented and sold canoes and was a guide on the Kings River in Arkansas. But a major drought put her venture out of business. 'I don't know how many times I heard that it was the first time the river went dry since l933.' Deciding it was time to quit the canoe business, Capps returned to Wichita State University, and worked for the Sunj70wer and the Pamassus. With her knowledge of lay-out and paste-up, she was hired part- time at The Wiehitan. 'I waited, watched and worked long hours, and a year-and-a-half later the art director left and I was given the positionf' Although Capps is deeply involved in her work, she doesn't see herself locked into one career. 'Sometimes I want to go to a big city to work for a magazine, and sometimes I want to change careers,' she commented. 'I'll stay in creative fields, but would like to work in other mediums - yarn and textiles. I won't always be an art director, I may even become a worm ran- Cher. Story by Kate Wintrol Photo by Madeline McCullough CHERYL CAPPS Art Director Finds Creativity At Local Publication 2 i J H sf' 7 :ii . ' - ' ... i f H V , , V . 2, AVV A Shoe!! fwr,,, ' QW' A ' -' i26F,s..L:1 .4 , A . Morrical, Lauren Morris, Patricia Morris, Roxann Moss, Lyle Muntz, John Murphy, Joseph Sophonwrc Senior junior junior Senior junior , 1 52 ', V ,:, I rrr, V ' 9 ,L, 'YW Q ' X ,ix V, ii V 44 -,QV I r Vgr, Kr'-J,W,, V, Murphy, Kathy Murphy, Todd Myers, Timothy Myrick. Brian Nader. Nader Nelson, Kenneth Sophomore Freshman lir.nlu.nc Sophomore Freshman Frcmman if J ,, ' A -is 'V , A x ' ,Q 5, z , V Maw- f A 'S f f ,,,Q'T?f I ie U Y . Neuway, David Neuwirth, Virginia Newell, Kristin Newman, Cheryl Ngoh, John Nguyen, Than Freshman Graduate Sophomore Freshman Senior Sophomore , x,q ,JV HV ,VV.. V1V ' X, A ' of f 'M 'L V, R, x , ,gg A V - JV!! ,V 6, L.. ,Q f'-rf. QQX 7 A 4 tj, K , xx S A ' L if Niemann, Jane Njorge, Njenga NoIler,Mike Norby, Gale Norris, David Nystrom, Daniel Sophomore Senior Freshman Senior Senior Freshman r orr i F r ' f, r ' i 5 or u y- W' ' rrrr .. . Obrien. Peggy Ochs, Leslie Odonnell, Alben Odonnell, Stephanie Othlrri. Chris Oelkers, Jana .lUF1l0f Sophomore Senior junior Freshman Senior x 'irl , ,' V ' V A Ofuokwu, Lawrence Ogden, Alvin Olden, Daren Oliver, Douglas Oneil, Mary Orozco, Chris Senior Freshman l' ffihmin junior Continuing Ed. Freshman The two strongest influences of Don Caruzzi's life are his freedom and his father. Caruzzi, an equipment operator with the physical plant - I pick up the trash on campus' - has studied forestry, art, history in college. He likes his job because it affords him time to read a great deal. He has gone to college since the early '70s, but has yet to earn a bachelor's degree. MI guess I'm not very ambitious, but I'm getting to be more so. It was just the time I was raised in, the hippie-thing.' He lived in Montana going to school and taking odd jobs, including cutting firewood. aMy friend and I subcontracted work from this guy. We would go to Idaho where there are lumber- mills, cut their slash, bundle it up, and load it onto trucks for so much a bundle. Did that three months, till my chainsaw kicked back and cut my friend's nose wide open. Then I got a little freaked out on chainsawsf' They were an hour from anywhere. 'But i we were real lucky. For one thing my chain- saw had a chainbrake on it that stops it in a millisecond. And I'djust sharpened it. Also, one of the guys working with us was a male nurse. He held it together. We hopped in the truck and put a towel over this guyls face - it was ripped wide open. We went to a doctor, and luckily he was real good. There was a lot of logging in that area, and he'd seen a lot of chainsaw cuts. The male nurse went into the operation, and said this doc- tor wasjust amazing. He did a real goodjob on him.' Eventually, Caruzzi wound up in Wichita after living in Seattle, Wash., where he has family. It is his family that has been a unifying element in his nomadic life. His Italian lineage includes poet laureates, knights - almost nobility, uwhich I con- sider, basically, trash. His grandfather was knighted twice during World War I, was the Minister of Immigration under Mussolini and, after Mussolini's assassination, became an anti-fascist. His mother, like all the women in his family, he said, is pragmatic, enormously strong, and smart. Whereas my father was an irrational Italian, real emotional. He would go off in a second.' His father was a bohemian - an artist, musician, inventor, writer - who wanted to sail the seas. His mother wanted security, so they divorced. His father drifted around in a sailboat, taking odd jobs, then moving on when he felt the urge. A storm at sea claimed his life, but not the spirit with which he lived his life. I've had religious people - my father was an agnostic - tell me they've never met anyone more capable of love than my father, and I think I agree. He was a real lov- ing man, and I miss him. And this is weird: He said to me, 'If I never see you again, know that I love you., I said, 'What's this bullshit? And I never saw him again. 'I'm the last blood Caruzzi in the U.S. Nobody expects anything out of me, which I love. I think my mother is disappointed. My father, I'm sure would have had ex- pected greater things from me. And I don't know. Maybe. If I can ever go back to school again, I would love to teach history.' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Madeline McCullough DON CARUZZI P Life's Traveler Finds His Spirit Is With His Father's . ..-. Y V k-kk . i b . 1 i..A V f J' L N in :.- , ixi Q S A t 4. . x iq Y . ,. ,rr .. J N as-. -. gs 'mf , a t Ortega, Pell Orth, Deborah Otoole, John Overton, Brenda Owings, David Palmer, David Freshma junior Freshman Freshman junior Sophomore Q :fi f -:.: 3: I , j ,' X ,T it ' P' A R F - Q in n A .- X . x3 , t 1 f QP sf r Paney, Joyce Pangbum, Virgil Panizzi, Ronda Pnrker, David Parker, James Parker, Jo Ellen Sophomore Continuing Ed. junior Freshman Senior Senior as .. 4 li . Q i J v . X Q 4 if In K in if 39.51 - W i. l V Q ,Li 1 .. 5 ag, I M Paugh, Randull Paul, Brian Payne, Donna Pennington. David Pennington, Kevin Perez, John Continuing Ed. junior Freshman junior Freshman genim , ' 2- 2' , P 'F .7 of ,, 5 , ' ip - .- X ' r i .' f A A ' K R . XF S, K, 'K i 4 Perez, Regina Petersen, Emilie Peterson, Debbie Pfeifer, Michelle Phelps, Susan Philip, Stephanie Freshman Senior Sophom, Freshman junior junior ,- A wi 'Q s . .QL ' if Vw Q i a I za, 4 l . I X Pickenpaugh, Molly Pickett, Brian Pieknik, Ronald Pinkston, Rebecca Pint, Connie Pitzer, Sheila Freshman junior Sophomore Freshman Freshman Sophomore R ias X .kk., : No- A if-1-:fr -X .. 3 vcr M - 15 - 4 rg 'Ps rl- ' '- ,ff X , L,-' V ea 1 I 'ii 1 s Plowman, Curtis Poelms, Elizabeth Pulley, Victor Pomeroy, Carol Potable, John Powell, Wendy Senior Sophomor Freshman junior Sophomore Freshman -. -- - if A 7 l ' 252. .Y?i?fNE?i'w7'ffi' essig.:-: wx X, f-giw 1 rv Til .sz ' .. -3 . , K 3 .. Mi - , g,....t 5 .... .,....s.,,,,g,s. . ,.., ,,, , 1 -f . i fn. V. 2: if . ' Q . -' H' .iif Y if Eli , 'fiiilii il? 'fs .. z. fill 55. 9 iw- Yin? ffffi' :ji 3. I - f 714' 'f is 2 -4 , .- . iff 14-5. - ' ' 5 551 e, .z fig ' X ' . , if5,:El:..g '- . . . mv 3 ' . g ff' ,A 1 341- Psigliff 212355 t .ffiid - if je A .aft ,lil +11 iw I . -Hifi 3,-,L 1- ef-em , 5 M Eg, QT,-L-,Q 1.13 .542 3, Z . - QL... Power, Eric -4 Powers, Earl fl. -- Pracht, James ti Pri0e,.PBl1'I8lB Pl'0k0P- DOUCIBI PFOIWF. Rickfl' Sophomore Sophomore -1. Ffcshman 4 '- Freshman ifs Freshman 2 f Sophomore ffl? . .. . My . X- if X Q S? SS S Prouse, Vickie Z PFOVOFSCYVICICI J i Freshman SUNG' Pulliam, David Xi: A PUl'keY.-Iimmie Senior ' Freshman 3 LEE? -f:. K il 2 Quint.Pntsy jffi junior . Rafferty, Janet junior 'I believe in individuals even when they don't believe in themselves, said LaVona Spencer, a counselor and instructor in University College. She said her success as a counselor for the past 14 years is the result of her outlook on life, which she got from her parents, who were well-traveled, educated and devoted to one another. But they lived during a time when prejudice was the rule, not the exception. My father was a journalist, but he never worked for a white newspaper because of racismf' Instead he worked as a cook to earn a living and wrote for black newspapers. 'He was a mover and a shaker. He was the one who moved me and influenced me the most in terms of being socially and politically active. I would have preferred to have removed myself from it, but he made me read the paper everyday voraciously to know what was going on. And then each night at dinner we would discuss at length what I had read that day. 'Now I make my children do the same thingf' From her mother, Spencer said she developed softness. She was not a push- over, but was very gentle, very warm, very giving. She was the touchy-feely one. She had insight into another person's pain that was remarkable. 'It took me a long time to inculcate that part into my personality, to make it my own because it's hard to be a radical and soft, too.' When she moved to Wichita she grew PORTRAIT more active in the politics of the time. She came for a six-month visit to get to know her relatives here, and ended up with a job with the NAACP. It was also when met her husband, Arthur. 'We were introduced in a drug-store. I was on my way to work and stopped in, and someone I knew said to him, 'I want you to meet someone who's really neat.' I though he was pretty neat, too. They married in 1955 and collected a circle of friends united by common goals, a time she said she will never have again. My husband was a very unique person. We were involved in a lot of political causes. That was the beginning of the civil rights movement and we threw ourselves headlong into those causes. He never said, 'Oh, you can't do that.' Instead he would say, 'One of us has to stay at home while the other is out fighting. Together they went on massive voter registration drives in the south and were active in the state pushing for progress. We made so many trips up to Topeka we probably could have established residency there. Those days we were the beatniks. We were performers and contributing members to society. At any given time our house would be full of people. It was like having a second family around. She said gradually her friends moved on with their lives, taking up teaching posi- tions and directorships. At the age of 36, she decided it was time for her to move on with her life, too. 'When I had my last child, I realized that I was growing older, and I began look? ing for more meaning in my life, and I started exploring things that I had not done. And the big thing that loomed among all the things was the fact that I had never gone to college. I just decided that 1968 was the time for me to go to college.' Three of Spencer's four children are students at WSU, and she said they were instrumental in helping her receive her bachelor's and master's degrees in guidance and counseling. 'My children and I were partners in assisting me to get my degree, she ex- plained. KI knew that I could not be the type of mother to sit at home and bake cookies. I'm glad I made the choice. In 1972, her husband died of cancer. The grief still lingers, she said, sometimes in a place, sometimes in an event, sometimes in a sunset. 'That was the one thing that I did not prepare myself to be: a widow. I was prepared for divorce, to nurse a handicapped husband, to care for retarded children - all those things hap- pened in my family. Nobody had ever had that happen before.' She stayed on at WSU, and, with her background in ufighting for the people's needs, became an advocate for the stu- dent. I've seen how large systems can chew up little people. -1 Continued on page 3 00--T Story by Brenda Gray Photo by Madeline McCullough 5. MW Wx E, A km i vw , if 'S-' . ....... ,. ' ' Rakeslraw, Deann Ramsey, Jennifer Rami, Prisca Reed, Lisa lleeves, Marilyn Reitmaier, Joseph Senior Freshman junior Sophomore junior Gmduage ': '-- Ar ' L ,fri , -kkk l N ff' A' K . ,Esm- RCYDOICIS- Catherine Rhulieun. Becky' Rhoten, Douglas Ridder, Daniel Riddle. Trudy Riedl, Steven Senior Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Freshman Sophomore , an . 5' we ,ff- . nf'--,wus vi X O , ,, W ww ,K LAVONASPENCER Counselor Embraces Campus With A Belief In People wa as x X ' X LLL1 1 ,F . learo iff!! ,L. a g X ,, ,P X Q . :ii i L ': rg. if Riegel, Jef! Riggs, Judith Roberts, Laurie Robertson, Vicky Roe, Matthew Rogers, Diana Sophomore Sophomore Freshman Freshman Freshman Senior sra 5 W S '74 'bx' i i X . ' '- . -Q -he , . 2 Q. . . Q ,r A . e- ' z :.. f 'v w- : 1 ' ' L JL Q - 12: K 'W 'M ' 'Le f - . .... - T' 1 if as or srrs an 1 -Q , ii' - s xg Q . '. --W' ..,, ,X K--,NX . 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X s ' X isss A -rig ' , Q iv 'L pf - li' ' X ' V X-:lf as 'Q K K Mk ' 71 . xf, K . 'Y 'lags , L V -- N f Y l 1 f x i , ' ' , 1 'U A K Scherer, Mike Schmer, Nancy Schmidt, Kara Schmitt, Lori Schneider, Timothy Schneider, Valerie Freshman Senior Freshman junior Freshman lunior In 1963, George Vollmer returned to the University of Wichita for his master's in English. When he got a teaching assistantship, he was nearing 40, the age of the other TAS' parents - this during a period when the motto was, Dont trust anyone over 30.' 'They assumed, naturally, that I was very reactionary - I think I even had a crewcut then - and thought strangely like their parents. In some ways I probably did, and in other ways I didn't. As soon as I could get those barriers down, that I wasn't the enemy, why, we got along fine.' He said that period was somewhat irra- tional. 'If you gave a person a failing grade in freshman English, by that means you sent them to Vietnam. It was a strange moral responsibility. So I donlt think I ever failed anyone, he said, laughing. After receiving his master's degree he was hired as an instructor, and seemed to be accepted by the students. 'I was given a flat of marijuana plants which had been grown in the growth chamber in the biology department as a loving gift from my students at the end of the semester. Well, I walked right out of the building and ran straight into President Lindquist, whom I had known for many years. He looked at them, and I said they were a gift from my students. He said, 'How nice,' and walked on. But they all died.' Vollmer's ties with the university go back to his family. His father's construc- tion company built many ofthe buildings on campus, including McKinley and jar- dine halls. After serving in the Navy in World War II, Vollmer attended WU in- tent on getting a degree in Zoology in order to become a doctor. He later ended up with a bachelors in English as his love for the arts began to envelop the idea of being in medicine. fBeing a doctorl didn't seem to hold my soul together like the arts did. I knew it would hold my body together but not my aesthetic nature.' After graduating he joined his father's construction company as an accountant, a job he enjoyed. He nurtured his interest in the arts and studied old music, a taste he acquired from his love of the organ. 'The organ stops had all these funny names of the odd instruments that have lost out in the orchestral scene, like the recorder, the viola da gamba, the harpsichordf' He feels that developing interests in many different areas is important, one of the benefits, perhaps, of the game Trivial Pursuit. But while that is how he has chosen to live his life, he isn't wholly com- fortable with the image of being a Renaissance man. 'I think sometimes you wonder if there is also, in contrast to the idea of a Renaissance-styled person, the 'jack of all trades and master of none' idea. You often worry that your life, perhaps, if you had focused it along some linear course, that maybe you could have had more impact. But certainly not so enjoyablef' Story by Peter Ingmire Photo by Kate Wintrol GEORGE VOLLMER P Instructor Feels Fortunate To Have Had Diverse Paths .2 . yyy. . -- . .- X . , .K .-kX V i - - 'S 2-jfs Q ii,oi., o S . . I , ' .- I - k-..- : 5, 5 ' LL-,. I A an . -X X .. .SM - 'A.- ' Vs e me F ' .h.h 79 ' i o? W F ' , r A K at . .- f gs f' 'N Pls' .1 -, 3? f A Q, .Q gf A K H Q. s- , .... f 'Y - S . . , . . S 1, sg Aw ii . .. 'X S F Schneweis, Carol Schoeni, Christa Sehrag, Crystal Schremmer, Brenda Schremmer, David Schroeder, Margaret O l'lDl'n0l'C lll ll0l' Ul ll0l U Ul l'lC O 0l ll0lC Cnl0l 5 P ' ' s ph s ph s A i ,,,., . - iiii S .. 1 ' YK ' 'iw - Qm'L .- ' W' f A-h- ' ' .df f - fi, .. 4 -A ' i . X.b. . 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Simon, Marjorie Freshman Simpson. Mark Freshman Sloan, Kimberly Freshman eie- .Q we 'f-if-so f X w i 'K' '-- - ' if . ..,.. . xi an ., e- ---- -- . iv ' if iw V- . , s- r .. 'W 'iwfw .Y x ' K K , iff ' E-if-QQ . T-,ie,72'f-'Ris.rqiii'f?,,wg av ' f ' .Ss '15 wr., - , fi ,, , - Smith, Kathleen Freshman Smith, Ki mberly junior Snodgrass, Cullen Sopho ITIOIC Snow, Laura Sophomore As a finalist for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship some years ago, jackie Snyder quoted a passage in French from the poet Ronsard. After quoting the passage, she was asked why she was interested in a graduate education in view of the fact that, being a woman, she would probably be married with children soon. 'I didn't have the vocabulary to defend myself. I didn't win the fellowshipf' But she pressed ahead, and is now associate vice president of academic affairs and assistant professor of American studies. 'I thought I'd be an English professor for the rest of my life. I should have majored in history or American studies. You really don't know what you want to do when you start out. Not knowing may be a blessing in disguise because it does leave open oppor- tunities for whatever may happen. 'I was hired into my first administrative position in Denver. Suddenly, without warning, my boss quit. It was my third week on the job. I became the boss, and I didn't have anyone to tell me how I was supposed to do it. I did it, though, and after that I PORTRAIT sought out administrative positions. I found I not only enjoyed it, I was good at 1t.' She enjoys teaching but thinks it is im- portant to challenge her students in new ways. One thing she has done is use film as a teaching tool. 'I use Elms as visual tex- tbooks. We need to be visually literate as much as we need to be able to read. One of the courses she has developed is called 'Images of Women in American Film, which traces how women have been portrayed in cinema. 'I was a feminist from birth. I was always attracted to Wonder Woman comics. My early heroes were strong women like Rosalind Russell and Babe Dedrickson. 'I also had the opportunity to attend a women's college at a critical time when I was developing my leadership abilities, and didn't have to face the other problem of having to compete with men while look- ing for their approval. I like men and enjoy their company. Being a feminist to me doesn't mean butting heads with men for overnight change. It means digging in and doing the long hard work of changing the way society socializes us all.' As an administrator and faculty member, Snyder tries to integrate both sides of the issues into a workable manner. She is also careful to guard against one ad- ministrative pitfall, 'shooting from the hip.' 'My highest values are justice and fairplay. Many abuses can occur in this type of institution. When professors mess over students or faculty vilify faculty, I get upset. I'm known to be a hothead, but before I let my fuse go off I get the facts. In a bureaucracy there is the problem of becoming so inured to problem-solving that the fuse doesn't go off - you lose your fight. I've kept my short fuse. But, she added, 'You've got to have fun doing what you do. If you can't, you'd bet- ter think about moving on. A sense of humor is a very saving thing, but you also need a rod of steel up your back. Be tough and be able to laugh. Story by Beryl Jones Photo by Kate Wintrol JACKIE SNYDER Feminist Administrator Balances Roles With Short Fuse, Laughter it 'I think that one of the biggest thrills for me was going to Reno, Nev., and meeting Richard Dawson,' said Patricia Hanna, former Mrs. Kansas. 'Richard said it was the first time that 50 married couples bought round-trip tickets to Reno.' Hanna, a 29-year-old education major, held the title of Mrs. Kansas from March 1984 until this past February. Being crowned Mrs. Kansas seemed almost a fluke to Hanna, who got interested in the contest almost by accident. 'We were living in Oklahoma and my husband transfered to the Arkansas City refinery. One day I saw some of the con- testants on CKAKE television'sJ Kaleidoscope show, and I heard that the contest would be at the Wichita Airport Hilton. I entered the contest during spring break. I actually entered the contest on a Tuesday and the pageant was Saturdayf' Unlike the Miss Kansas pageant, which is a nonprofit organization, the Mrs. Kan- sas pageant makes money from taping the contest, and selling the program. 'Hilton Hotels are the biggest sponser. They sell i l nf Li the pageant to the networks. In Reno, Baron Hilton has a ranch where they video tape the pageant. While we were there we really got the royal treatment, riding in his gliders and airplanes. Everyone was very supportive. The Mrs. Kansas contest determines who gets to be crowned Mrs. America. The competition, like most beauty con- tests, requires an interview, a swimsuit competition, and an evening gown com- petition. 'The interview is 50 percent of the competition. The rest is the swimsuit and evening gown competitions. You also have to wear a state costume that tells about the area you live in. Fortunately, I had an Indian costume that I could wear. 'In the interview part they ask you about your hobbies. My state director, jan Wilcoxen, said I really had a high inter- view rating. Since I only entered the con- test to have fun, I was relaxed. I wasn't do- ing it to further a career. She enjoyed her reign as Mrs. Kansas, having learned a lot and making friends. 'It was an eye-opening experience. I visited a veterans' hospital and one man told me that just seeing me made him feel better. I don't know if it made their day, but it cer- tainly made mine.' Hanna gives her husband, Everett, a lot of credit for his help during her reign. 'He tried to act nonchalant, but before I would go out he would adjust my banner, or help me remember to take things that I would have forgotten. He was very supportive. is looking forward to a she would like to return as a judge someday. 'I a pageant judge. It's a lot Although she teaching career, to the pageant would like to be easier work to be on the other side of the interview table. 'People have a preconceived idea of what a 'beauty queen' is. Some people think you are stuck-up. But when I at- tented parades and grand openings, and I really got to meet people, it was a wonder- ful experience. Some told me I didn't even look old enough to be a Mrs.' Story by Tim Pouncey Photo by Madeline McCullough PATRICIA HANNA P Ex-Mrs. Kansas Has Biggest Thrill In Nevada . ' K ' ,nx- kt - 1 . ',,E, ,.A . M 5 5: M. . ,R n Q X I .I . 1 0 K . , C C s, 1 , sr 1 . ,J -hw, ' Z- J 5 . Ei , in ., t lf . 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'Things came to a head during training camp - it's so hard mentally and physical- ly. I wanted to get into a secure career and thought there must be easier ways to make money. All my buddies were graduating, getting jobs and that side started to look goodf' And being in the NFIJ is not always glamorous. It was a job with a lot of drudgery I didn't enjoy. It was so deman- ding on your body and with practice and meetings, we worked about five to eight hours a day. There are only 1500 players in PGRTRAIT the NFL - being part of an elite group has its benefits. I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the celebrity status.' According to Hull, people place the Steelers' on a pedestal. Players never have to wait in line to enter a popular club, have free usage of the best health clubs, and have constant adulation from the fans. Hull has never seen himself as a star, although he recognizes his special talents. 'Because of my upbringing and personality, I hate to be called egocentric or conceited. l'd rather people liked me for me - not because I'm a football player. He started playing football when he was eight years old. His father worked at Beech Aircraft and asked him ifhe wanted to play on a company team. 'It could have easily been baseball or basketball. It wasn't until high school I gained speed, agility and strength.'He has always been a lineman, a rough position with little glory. 'As a kid I was pudgy and the coach put me at a posi- tion I could play - my dad was a lineman and I assumed it was OK to be one.' Hull admits he thrives on the camaraderie and competition of football and enjoys playing a 'tough guy' position. It's fun to be on a winning team and fun to win the one-on-one battles. I get satisfac- tion because my opponents are always big- ger than I am. Often I surprise my coaches. I'm small by pro offensive standards and the Steelers didn't expect anything out of me. But when I put on the pads they were pleas- ed when I could block better than stronger guys. It was exciting because I've watched these guys on TV since I was a kid. Playing with them was such an accomplishment I strove to play up to their Ievel.' Leaving the Steelers was a difficult deci- sion for Hull. 'I thought I was relieved. I came home and soon got tired of explaining - there was no pat answer. It was the first time I quit anythingf' The reaction he has received from people ranges from dismay to disappointment. 'Lots of people want you to do well because they want to know so- ---Continuea' on page 301 Story and Photo by Kate Wintrol AY HULL Football Player Wants Back In The Pros 'IJO Fulfill Dreams I gg,,,f1 Donald Distler describes himself as a Renaissance biologist. 'That's what I am, probably the last. l'm a generalist, not a specialist. l have a wholistic approach to nature - an eclectic approach to biologyf Since he arrived in 1963 at what was then the University of Wichita, Distler has wat- ched and monitored the changes in nature, specifically in Kansas rivers. Working as a field biologist, Distler studies the fresh water eco-systems in the state within a 200-mile radius of Wichita. The environment Distler observes has continued to decline. The quality and quantity of Kansas waters has consistently decreased since l came here. 'When l first came to Wichita, the Arkansas River flow- ed continuously from the Colorado border to Arkansas City. The river has also lost a number of organisms. Distler estimates that a third of all species of clams have been extirpated from the Arkansas River and its tributaries. lt's the same as watching a friend die of cancer. And l didn't come to Wichita when the river was pristine. lt bothers me. Each ff generation thinks this was the best there ever was, and the enviroment keeps degenerating. How can you repair the system when people don't even realize what they've lost? We are exploiting the earth - using the rivers as sewers, and they are not rebounding from the abuse. Water is a renewable resource, but you can't con- tinue to contaminate the source from which you extract the waterf' Although industry is the main polluter of the environment, Distler said a basic 'out of sight, out of mind' philosophy is also to blame. 'People think, what harm does it do to fill a ditch with old car parts? These resources will continue to decline until we care more about the environment than we do Qaboutl ourselves. k'Conservation of water sources, to a politician, means, 'What is the best use of this resource - to fuel industry or to haul away trash? When economics comes in, the environment always takes it on the chin because it's cheaper to be dirty. The cost that is never figured in is the degradation of the environmentf' Fa Distler feels there is basic problem in the warped way that many people think. 'There is an ignorance of the interconnec- tion of our actions. Most people don't care about the consequences once their primary goal is achieved. I can excuse ignorance, in- difference and greed I can't. But the results of our actions can be seen in many ways. Sixty to 90 percent of cancers are caused by environmental stress - from eating at Hardee's to swimming at the Shocker Club. People are used to an en- vironment of concrete, steel and air- conditioning - 90 percent are afraid to go outside. The environment is seen as hostile and frightingf' Despite such gloomy realizations, Distler describes himself as an optimistic pessimist. He sees rays of hope in some of his students. In fact, he said the values he has instilled in his students is his greatest accomplishment. 'I taught them apprecia- ---Continued on page 3 0l--- Story and Photo by Kate Wintrol DON DISTLER P Renaissance Biologist Watches The Death Of Kansas Rivers .rx . as i .. ,Q A :g i , i a- ' :k i ii , K ,iii Y A ,Y - ' fizsfirlzs S 'mi-r337f if r iss' ,,. ' 'gf ' wi, -sxxf-A ii silt Q F F S ,X ., Xe... Wheeler, .ludit.h White, Deann White, Diane Whitmer, Thomas Whittle. Bfadlel' WNW. Rfrhfrfl Freshman junior Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Sophurnure X 6 Uv fix X - ' Q I ix, K Ne , K 5, , . Y ' , 'M f - :lr L? --hi X. f ' ooi of S Ks ygj, 4, S sl v Wh 5 Wiles, Susan Wilkin, Kevin Williams, David Williams, David Williams, Jeff Williams, Pamela Freshman Senior Freshman Senior Senior junior .. K kk'f 5 is t :ff I . V X ,ik Sm, Q LJ . .. X w X i Q P' f . g S i . ., Y X A xxx M L Wilson, Bertram Wilson, Brett Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Jeff Wilson, Kevin Winger, Timothy Continuing Ed. Freshman junior Senior Sophomore Freshman S -G. , . S. U i f H ,M X K I- K ' .,,s- X ' ' ' if, if' . 'K W Q.. 7 k .V I ' i P-ii ' -1 ' ..f. K, 1 J i . 'Jif Q K i 5 1' . i S 3 Wolf, Tod Wong, Raymond Woodcox, Sharon Yoder, Judith Yoder, Sharon Yoon. Patty Senior Graduate Senior Freshman Freshman Freshman f '. ,l R - I kai? r 3 1 l 5 Young, Christopher Young, Cindy Young, Debra Young, Kristina Young, Timothy Zimmerman, Mark Freshman Freshman Freshman Sophomore Freshman Senior .i 5 gf . rx r K Zulfiqar, Mohsin junior ll Z Council Works To 'Wow' Student Body The Student Activities Council cries to br- ing in a wide variety of entertainment, said SAC President Kim Bader. 'just anything that's of interest. We don't have one set guideline, so it's just whatever we can come up with. There are about 100 student volunteers who work in the activities office, divided up into nine committees. Each committee holds meetings to decide what its program should be to fill the students' entertainment needs, Bader said, and then work to bring off the activity. Along the way, organizational skills are developed. Not only are we here to program for studentsf' Bader said, 'we're Here' to learn how to program and acquire leadership. We have a real budget and it's a real working ex- perience for us. Not every program is successful. The year before, Bader said, one of the most suc- cessful programs was the Concert in the Sky. This past year it was rained out, something that could not be avoided, and the council lost money. Probably that was our biggest bomb this year. That will pro- bably get Murphy's Law of Programming this year. She said when something fails, committee members will sit around and discuss what the problems were and how to avoid them in the future. We just have to take our lumps and learn from it. And it's important that we do take our lumps. Not everything is going to be successful. The council this year used student surveys and noon programming to involve afternoon and evening students more. Because of the nature of a commuter campus, Bader said, it is difficult to get people to attend the pro- grams. 'It gets real frustrating at times, but people stick right in there and keep think- ing, 'What can we do on this campus to really 'wow' everybody? ' GROUPS Administration Management Society From' mv: Vance Price, jane Fine, Vanessa Hershberger, Nancy Douglas, Duston Moore, Don Snider Mau, Gary Hager. Bart mw: Lloyd Loomis, Ted Brant, Scott f l 'sl Alpha Epsilon First mw: Brian Foster, Carl Bonner, Lyle Wente, Amber S. Messner, Frank Kelly, Moss, David Bell. Serond mv: jean Pollitt, Diana Dodge. Sheila Barnard, Anita Steckline, Patricia ham. Barliara Hillis. iirxdhrcnnlzrman. Liz McKee, Carol Sagerty, Troy Hantla Rich Raspbcrger. Pbzzrtlz mm: Laurie Nurris, Jody Osborn, Sherrie GROUPS Grubb, Jeff York, Renard. Na: Prktuned: Todd johnson, Susan Snyder, Kurt Brown, jeff Kahrs Dana White, Erin McGill, Dan Unruh. Menhusen, Paula 245 X -A--Q X - X' . L -. N.l...X A...X K M .. i Nj xy.. f -' M gil' 5 KNAW .K M .X sm . . 3: , .fi Q . .fwiqf K X . Nm. xx My 'xx i VX X 7 Campus Girl Scouts First mmm' Kristina Fortney, Susan Bolt, Debbie Tracy, Dana Lewis. Szfmnd mm: Lisa Gustin, 'avgqvauvuw ,,,.-at Marty Slater, Leslie Bassett. Cindy Frank. I fb-- eg --.- .- QQ. Geology Club Fin! mm: Lyneille Aday, Greg Mayfield, Kris Smith, Rose Abdul Majid, Rich Elgin, Martin Emery, Stan Pike, john Barr, jim Salisbury, Salahuddin Saleh, Rusli Adam, Salfuddin Sulaiman, Dan Updegraff, jeff Silfer, Randy Gardner. Sammi mam: j.R, Berg, Brenda Wulf, Marian Rakestraw, Tom Nye, Vicki Childers, Al Brensing, Tom Blair, jim Diebold, Scott Applegate. Randy Brooks, Vistasp Dalal, Bob Bayer, Rose Cross, P.G. Sutterlin, Malia Rosner, D.F. Merriam. 771ira' row: Collette D. Burke, .. 13 JE, ......l lsmail Sahari, Cathy Summers, Ken Folger, john Fox, Mark Craig, john Beyer, Loren Deaver, Steve james, john Ruhl, Glenn Steele, Gerry Faley, Robert Hill, Gil Frazey, Tim Derstine, Sarah Collinsworth, D.G. jewett. joel Patterson. fbunl: row: Pete Zimmerman, Tom Reynolds, W.E. Full, j.N. Gundersen, Bruce Deaver. Mike Boes, Dirk Rickard, jim Rough, Dave Balleau, Charles Spedding. jim Peeler, j.C. Gries, Tom Matzen, Steve Van Buskirk, Don Bradshaw. f'!Yfl.1l mm. Hn' pcrwn ma unc knew. Muuhclic Ifcnis. Yutnxa. Todd Wulf, Dun Gwynne. Randy Porter, 'Hn ,Inc Xlayticld. 'Warm Yidu.. The pcrwn nn mm knew, parvum nu unc kncn, Phxl Cicgcn. The person no unc l!mK'1va .' Siu-ii.: Ui TUIIUCI. Rug Nurm jr., :Xlnjnd .-Xl- kncn. GROUPS nos: , Interfraternity Council Hrs? nlzcn' Michael Rishell, Andy Wells, Greg King, Duckett, john lfuhr. Rory Srcclc, Greg Demcl, Ben Mark Farha. .Slfmrzd mmm' David Meabon, Mark Seymore. l H . ,V,Q W ,r,,II ,Q KVVLIVAV P I A3 W r,'wQ1 -nlll Flirt mw: Clint Angle, joe Gomez, Greg Cox, Mike Cluff. Semnd Laney, Brian Stockton, Ross Pierce, jay Redick, Kevin Pierce, mw: Party Weme, jeff Malcolm, Monique Spurgeon, Christine Patricia Cahill, ,lim Lavin, Freddie Parker, Chris Corneu, Wanda Volz, Kellie Phelps. Tllin1'mw:,Ioan Freund, Louis Foster, Susan Caesar, Keilh MUIYOW. David Bell. PBI HHYCS. Janice Shann0n- 4-an., Dance Troupe Enjoys A Full Schedule This has been a busy year for the Mid- America Dance Theatre. The Mid-American Dance Theatre is a student performing company vvithin the dance division, composed of advanced dancers. Although the size of the company varies each semester - eight students in the fall and l3 in the spring - students must audition for the company. Students must have a technical skill level. .ind have a dance 'qualitvf' said Carol lvvasaki, director of dance. The company was invited to perform at The Mid-American Dance Network Cfon- ference held September 7 at the l'niversitv of Nlissouri-Kansas Citv. The Conference brought in several professional dance groups, and it was an honor for Universitv Dance Theatre to be invited. lvvasaki ex- plained. liach semester. Dance Theatre stages tvvo main performances. In addition. the com- panv also sponsors various guest artists throughout thc year. ln November, Tandv Beal appeared at the Kansas Dance liestival and on March 2 The Indianapolis Ballet Theatre tvill perform 'Coppeliaf The Niid-American Dance Theatre also gives lecture demonstrations in the public schools. 'This involves talking, explaining and showing - a total learning experiencef said lxvasalti. L--. . . Mid-America Dance Theatre Ld! to Rrghr: Pat Yeager N1cCurrv. David Graves. Lynda Hasan, Sabina Leon, Diane Nicilullough, Michelle Mazeitis, Steve Xlueller. ZS 'i - , 4 .. r Y f V -Q 'W K, X 'L Operation Success Mm rvmr: Han Nghicm, Saleh Chnl-xuroun. Khdcr lfarhut. janml Ghannui. Rebecca Pegg. Smurf! mr. .' Niccr Hossain. Umcsh Sharma, Decma dc Sihu. joe Brand. Somrhunh Xrtildffhilllg. Hcrcilia Rccrnm, Um! rms: Ray Lcurmani. Ym- ccm Rhcrrsun. Sum Bus. Clara lfrcund. Xhrthu Holroyd. Marin Ranms. Xhllrrf 111 l.ff-z'r.' 'IX Ckmpcr. Af 5 Panh Counc11 Hftvl mrcx' Andrea Sanderson. Tanmmy Nlcnhuscn, Viola Davis. Lauri Hanson. S1'frm1I'rr1zc'.' Ur. Sharon johnson, Susan Uonnur, XR ' 5 ri K Hi G i X Peggy Sue O'Bricn. jan.: Rcding, Stephanie Steffens. 255 ouvucl, Jaavu gunna, nunvaa uwpn-tn, 1 may uuwuvn, Annu, lmnw. vww-W v.,............, .,,,....... ...--,., ......- . Ed Lyngc, Kyle Couch, Rose Betzen, Alan Lomax, Grant Young, Andy Anthony Pressncll, Paul Kissinger 'Steve' Tatum, Rob Stew Timmons, Jimmie 'Steve' Blount, Paul 'Steve' 4 Wiunbw X ,..l 257 259 3 X iS S ag 5 IE S i 2 261 ak. an Sigma Alpha Iota Hunt mmm' Carolyn Alter, Felicia Griffin, jen- Wilk, Jana Shelton, Kim Chisham, Melissa nifer Miller, Elizabeth Gipe, Suaznne Cotton. McLemore. Bark mm: jennifer Cook, Susan Laney, Robyn s. faq r r if Sigma Tau Hn! mm: Larry Clay Appl, Lori Klausmeyer, Darin Zuhair Tibi, George janzen, Larry Myer. Szfond row: Roger Mills, Ross, Melvin Snyder. Michael Shih, Gregory Demel. Third mw: Steve 1 I 1 Paper Battles Taunts, Differences With high reporter turnover, a new editorial staff and much student apathy and abuse directed toward it, the Wichita State University Surzjqower has been 'not without its problems, according to Linda Satter, news editor. A lot of people laugh at it, bas- ed on the pastf' Satter explained that as a serious learning tool, the Sunfower is bound to have mistakes. But, she continued, students and faculty havent taken the paper seriously, especially when a big mistake has been made. 'They see the mistake, then they don't look at the rest of the paperf' Among the editors, there have been many conflicting interests and issues - ages of the staff members, religious views, politics - 'philosophies in generaif' Satter mused. 'lt's such a diverse staff, but that's good, too. . .we balance each other that wayf' Some of the problems plaguing the Sur1j7oza1er throughout the year have been in- consistency in layout, sometimes-inaccurate reporting followed by retractions or editorial apologies, controversial advertisements and editorial cartoons. 'lt just depends on the day how good the paper is,' Satter sighed. 'At least we're learn- ing more and more as the semester goes on. ' -its-aff' ., ,z,, 'T 5 i First mm: Linda Tromblic. Serond row' Dickey, john Perez jr., Dave johnson, john William Cathy Smith, Odie Ann Snyder. Not Pictured: Les Waring-Wamsley, Fannah Wissah, Steve Witherspoon. Anderson, Su'ad Awab, Cass Brunner, Agus Beratahani, Steve Birchfield, Bowers, Christopher Craig, Mikey Kline, Anna Marie Miranda, Philip, Tim Pouncey, Doug Ramsey, TA Thompson, joan xx-nv-s WSU Housing Board Emir nlmx' Tina Mareyec, Cheryl Miller. Cheryl Dagenhart, Ordonez. Carl Goossen, Randy Alexander. Pam Morgan, April Beary. Bark mw: Doug james, Nelson Petersen, Rafael Mike Saffle. Vicki Kruwell. Nishad Limaye. HIFI mm: jassendra Kem, Rosalind Wayne, Kevin Clark, Nancy nifer Adams, Crisri Mcdsker. Bruce Lyons. Thffdf'0fi72.'S3l1d3 Moore, Woerner. Margaret Hurley, Kim Casey. .S'efondmfm.' Robin jones, Deb- David Hayes, Susan Miller, Teresa Wilson. Sandra Hastings, Maria by Cabala, Kathryn Siemsen, Cherie Wenderorr. Linda Simmons, jen- Martirw, DHD WilS0n. I LII. Kappa Sigma Finer mar: Mark Silva, Russell Clranmer Mike Tice, Greg Krause, Chris Taylor. Danny Collins, Lloyd Tabing, David Ucmcl, Paul Quinn, joe jabara, Vince Burnett. Szfmnd mmm' jeff Plucnneke, Kirk Anderson, Mike Ellison, Bob Ale-Ebrahim. Hughes, Phi Delta Theta Har! mm: Mike Dowing, jeff Brummett, Larry Dobbs, Mark Taylor, Brad Babish, Ben Boys, Ken LeBlanc, Brian Finney, Steve Adams, james Minkley, Allan Staley. Strand ww: Chris Brown, Kurt Bomburg, Bob Abraham, Bill Bair, Gwinn Walker, Tony Flores, Butch Thomas, Bruce Lines, Kurt Brown, David Parker. Third mm: Clark jackson, Todd Doane, Don Avers, Mike Babish, Glenn Steel, Craig Woltamath, lim Casey, Mike Cranston, Greg King, Chris Durbin, Pat Mcglaughlin. Fourth row: Bill Gamache, Dave Nortcutt, jeff Tully, David Pain, Mark Cook, Mario Maranda, Dan Manson, Kendal Niquette. Not Pk- tunfd: jerry Bouwer, Kevin Ewing, Lance Flowers, Gordy McKeown, Ted Means, Steve Meyers, Brad Mitchell, Perry Perez, Dan Tarum, Tim Unruh. Little Sisters of Pallas Hn! mv: Linne Brown, Tammy Runa, Pam jayes, Annette DeMars, julie Sheridan, Shannon jones. Semnd row: Elly DeBroeck, Judy Duda, jill Kratz, Pam Abraham, Mary Vandeveer, Tee Vie Walker. Third row: Annie Pierce, Renee Trudeau, Dayla Hayes, Kathy Cooper, Beth Alley, ,lill Disney, lngrid Duran, Becky Quinlan, Cindy Nusz, Deann White, Robin Dupont, Founlz mw: Lisa Hightower, Tracey Bear, Nan- cy Long, Lisa Shiblon. Chris Stuczman , john Baker, Tom Rose, Brad Shearer, Rod Brenneman, Doug Webster, Todd Miller, Lee Fisher, jeff Coomes, Founrh mw: Cody Bredengerd, Bo Sawyer, Loren Kiser, Kevin Spangler, Dcrrin Holloway, Nin George, Eric Deering, Rick Coomes, Kem Cochran, john Thedford, Bruce Sawdy, Ron Brown. Not Pft'!1lf'6d.' Larry Decker, Rich Kanccl. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Lck to Right: Eric Thompson, Ray Clem, john Eldridge, jim Andrews, Brad Acker- man, jeff Harshheld, Karl Hesse, Tom Borrego, Mike Scherer, Lance Kellen- barger, Roger King, Shawn Stoner, Scott Smith, Ron Coleman, Pat Wilson, Kelly johnson, jeff Welty, Boyce Soward, Greg Wald, Doug Ramsey fPresidentl, Terry McGuire, Tim Hoffmans, john Worm, Ben Seymore, Doug Dees, Pete Austin. Nor Picmred: Sohail Aminmadani, Brian Armstrong, Kevin Chope, john Clem, Dave Cunningham, Paul Faltermeier, Greg Hammersky, Reed Hinkel, Mike Inman, Tom Kline, john Meister, Steve Minson, Steve Ng, jim Phillipe, Kevin Weber. Little Sisters of Minerva First row: Lisa Dester, Carol Roller, Holly Dyer, Sandy Rhodes, Vanessa Gooch. Sefond mm: Tanya Roberts, Heide Heath, Caroline Stephan, Carla Kelly, Rita Berry, Heidi Buehre, Nadean Thomas. Not Pir- tufrd: Leann Barnes, Launa Brack, Pam Burke, Trish Carr, Rose Dillman, Karen Englestad, Wendy Giordana, Lisa Graber, julie Hill, Angela Huff, Ruthie Hyde, Stacy Logan, Lorie Looper, Becky Rhatigan, Mirta Santander, Shelly Stewart, Chris Warner, Mallory Wilkinson. , , . , L, Uv, . .v ., .. Alpha Phi F?f3'ffU8F.' Michell Harpen, Polly Pierson, Brenda Gile, Vickie Brown, Shan- non Staats, Susan Bowman, Kim McCleland. Serondmw: Lisa Gaylord, Nan- cy Downing, Tammy Owings, jodi Fisher, Gail Dunn, Lori Schmitt, Kristina Fortney, Cris Schrag, Jeanette Blide. Third mw: Sharon Salber, Gretchen Gragg, Stacie Logan, Mary Morgan, Kara Haas, Joni McCoy, Ian- na Trout, Kelly Shrewsbury, Gretchen Grace, Vicki Cammarn, Katrina West, Tiffany Brookhouser. Fourth row: Annie Robertson, Janice Kirner, Robin Peterson, Andrea Sanderson, Nancy Holmes, Susan Connor, Sheila Pitzner, Lori Sturges, Liane Schaffer, Tammy Scott, Deanna Freund, Mom Holroyd. Fifth mw: Carla Kelley, Sandra Hastings, Lori Hermann, Gina Starkey, Pat Salber, julie King, Kim Kuhlman, Denise Hebert, Debbie Olson, Dorine Manson. No! Pictured: Lyneille Aday, Sheri Coombes, Lisa Fettis, Karen Kater, Ann Lassen, Patricia McGuire, Dorine Manson, An- namarie Miranda, Mindy Pietrzak, Cindy Sipes, Nimfa Siwa, Lisa Welty. Delta Delta Delta First wav: julie Wilson, Tammy Unruh, Donna Payne, Jacqueline Coleman, Missy Strait, Lizabethe Rowe, Mari Howard, Shana Buchanan, Susan Hascall. Second mw: Tammy Brooks, Marion Bravo, Stephanie Mascus, Lori Teichman, Robin Toben, Angela Windham, Stacey Anderson, Beth Welch, Erin Farha. Third man: Valerie Lakin, Mary Moore, Karen Kroeker, Becky Boyd, Stephanie Stephens, Rhonda Chapman, Mery Allen, Sharon Schulte, Gretchen Krueger, Carol Gribble, Kristi Travillion, Sandy White, Melanie Shenk. Fourth map: Kerri Travillion, janet Cook, Lisa Schueler, Ame Kasten, Francis Nelson, Christy Davis, Ann Snyder, Betsy Gipc, jackie Dreher, Beth Anderson, jane jones, Susan Snyder, Judy Crow, julie Mears. Gamma Phi Beta Hm' mmf: Shelly Harris, Kay Perry, Nina Kelley, Pam Kecny, jill Lars. Parry Whaley, Michelle Douglass, 'llmnia Evans, Susan Wiles, Michelle Pembcr, Se' mmlmw: Vicki jeu, Kirsten Volbrccht, Kerry Engle, Bcrh Alley, jill Singlewn, Angie Gan, Shurilyn Casey, Tonya Burrry, Kris janrzun. Y71irrlmziz'.' juli limild, Gina Bleile, Vicki Reiscrcr. Denise Stover, jenny Terrell. Shannon Nleiiune. Michele Organ. Kim Kriuer, Elizabeth Freund. Karen Orr, Teresa Hiser, l'P1m1fr row: Becky Budwwski, llenise llusck. Tracy Bcnyshek. Sherry lluyne. Bur-ky Rharigan. Allison Ackley, Kelly 'l'non, Dianne Kreissler. Brenda Nuniisnuk. Paula Shanhour. Kristen Sengcr, Lisa Parks. Shari Winfrey, 'l'nnya Young, Bcrh Macauly, Sheryl Angel. HIM ITIYHK' Lynnerre johnson. Kexerrc Arnel. Lynerre Yogelgesung. Lauri llnnsun, Lori Perry, Kim Cochran. Michelle lflick, Linda Smith. Anita Srccklinc. Pamela Haynes, joanna Watson, 'llrucy Wicsen. No.. -W, WW' A le .Q 1' ei i ij, e Q4 sv S N I Wi is Men's Basketball Knuling: Aubrey Sherrod, Gary Cundiff, Clint Normore, Mike Arline, jeff Henry Carr, Tom Kosich, Curtis Bailey, Karl Papke, Marc Farha, Rick Shore Perkins, Cedric Coleman. SIandir1g.' Randy Smithson KAssistanr Coachj, jeff IAssistant Coachb, Gene Smithson KHead Coachl. jones QAssistant Coachl, Rodney Washington, Gus Santos, Xavier McDaniel, ,sd Baseball l'Yr1rtmw.' Tim Raley, Eric Wilner, Tom julian, Danny Raley, Mark Standiford, jim Hepburn, Arnie Beyeler, Greg LaFever, jerry Spring. Semnd mw: Mark Grogan, Steve Mueller. Cliff Mutchler, Shane Durham, Darryl Knight, Brad Maroney, Mike Wentworth, Kevin Kelly, Randy johnson. Third mm' Loren Hibbs lGraduate Assistant Coachj, Greg Schiffelbein, Kevin Penner, Kent Headley, David Haas, Kary Dixon, Rick Wrona, Shawn Land, Kurt Bradbury lGraduate Assistant Coachl. Fourth nm: Gene Stephenson lHead Coachl, Rich Mclntyrc, Ken Greenwood, Shawn Pumphrey, Dan jucnke, Doug Woods, Barry Lunnon, Mark Behny, Brent Kemnitz lAssistant Coachl. N01 Pirruned: Terry Elliot, Bret Bouher, Dave Lucas lGraduate Assistant Coachl. Womerfs Softball First ww: Kim Lassley, Pat Schoonover, Donna Ewing. Thin! ww: Renae Kirkharc Ukssistant Coachl, Williams, Lora Heir, Donna Campbell. Sefond meer: Chris Heidi Hagen, Becky Craft, Cindy Crosby, Cindy Bristow Schrag, Gcnny Pcliotes, Sue Gasper, Shari Beck, Kris: fHead Coachj. . . A Swxhsaa SI? Qfyffiflwff g54,lfQ'ff,WM ' Z, MGM GROUPS HW Men's and Women's Track 85 Field Hrs! row: Paula Cudjo, Stephanie Forbes, Wendy Kelly, Connie Long, Michelle Soroka, Alesia Cox, Carmel Maher, Ella Lloyd, Kim Brown, Karen Brown, Janice Thomas, Rene Bumgarner, Gloria Liddell, Florencia Chilberry, Rhonda Leggens, Nina Thompson. Second now: Brent jones fAssistant Coachj. Rachel Brockman, Kody Kinder, Duane Hertel, Greg Davis, Kevin Wiebe, jerome Abraham, Dale Wright, Chris Currie, Marvalie Starks, Rod Jeter, Kevin Harvey, Trey Harrison, jeff Boleski, Brian Yockers, Tanya johnson, john Kornclson lTrack Coordinatorj. Third Steve Smith lAssistant Coachl, Keith Wright, Antjony Gordon, Allen Lareau, Tim Lyons, Mark Todd, Marvell Reid, Ken Rohlings, Darryl Morris, Tony Booker, Vincent Scott, Mark Anderson, Ricky Livingston, Rodney Pelly, Coy Tuck, Dean Russell lAssistant Coachl. MCH,S Tennis Ld! m Rigfzl: Rex Coax! Ulead Coachl, Brent Fields. jeremy Grubi, Andy Castle. Kris Bmatcn. john Thorpe. Paul Rosenich. Bill Nichols Uxssisrant Coachl. 'i' 'Hof V V i4n.4. whim I 1 J F emvw- wswrw-'H W ' Men's and Women's Golf Hrs: mv: Dave Henson, Rob Self, Brenda Byer, Kit Weaver, Lora Wolf, Jodi Mike McCoy, Sud Yener, Doug Tickel, Bill Herndon. Ron Blevins fHead Ness, Richie Pierce, Doug Brermeman. Sefond ww: Judy jerer lAssistam Coachl. Not Picturrd: Eric Sexton, Russ Mamoth. Coachl, Gordie McKeown, jeff Forbes, Jeff Smith, Ron Branum, Tim Quinn, 1 1 E 1 1 1 Mi 1 5 1 INDEX Aaby, Stewart . ..,........ Abdel-Qader, Ahmad Abdul-Kadir. Kedeesa ...,., Ahel, Patricia ..... ...,.. . . Abraham, Bob .......,.... Abraham. Jerome . , Abraham, Pam . . . Ackerman, Brad . . . Ackley, Allison . . Aeuff, Mark .,., Adam, Rusli .,.. ....259, Adams, Darrell . . ..... . . Adams, Jennifer ........ 196, Adams, Milfrcd . , Adams, Sidney . . . Adams, Steve . . . Aday.1,yneil1e . . . .Qfiinil Addison, Kelly . . ... . . .. Addison, Stud . . . ,.,. 196, Ad:.:hiyi,0lufeli1 .... Agolumliraxicis . , Aguilar,l1oraeio , Ahmed, Dawood . . . Akhhari, Masuud . . . Al-Mulla, Walued . . . Ale-librahim. Bob . . Alexander, Randy . . Alexander-Charles, Karon . . . 254, Aley.N1ike ,,.. All. lamul , . . ..,.,. . . , Allen, lwlaine .. . , . . . . .. Allen. Kirk ... ,. Allen. Mary .. .1 . 196, 264. Allen, Robin ..... Allen, Scott ....,... Allenhach. Randy . . Alley, Beth ..,,.... Allsman, llorrin ,.,. Alter, Carolyn .v.., Amahia, lkechnkn u Amirr, Mark ..,.... Anderson, Beth .,,. Anderson, Don. . , Anderson, Cary .,.. Anderson, Kirk .... Anderson, Mark ..,. Anderson, Stacey , Anderson, Susan , . . Anderson, Todd .... Anderson, Wes , . . Anderton. .lohn ..,. Andrews, .lim ..,,.. Andrews. Susan .... ....2r5, Androutsellis, George . , , 138 Angel, Sheryl ...... Angle, Clint ....... Anthony, Mark .,., Anthony, Linda .,.. Appl. Clay .,.... Applegate, Scott .... Arain, Saleem . . . Argahright. Mike . . . Arjona, Monica . , . . Arline. Mike ..,.,,. Armagost, David . , . Arnel, Kevette . . . Arnold, Dawn . . . Arrens, Steve ...,. Arteaga, Robert ,... Ashraf, Syed .,... Atwell. Curtis ...... Austin, Pete ..,.... Avendano, Francisco Avers, Don ....,,.. Awnh, Sifnd . . . Avi ad, Adnan .... ,fiiif 196 196 266 196 275 287 275 277 281 256 249 .45 269 274 274 275 249 245 280 196 196 196 196 196 196 273 269 262 276 196 286 282 279 .90 196 248 281 196 263 196 1116 279 2-12 258 273 287 279 196 258 282 271 277 246 1411 281 251 274 278 263 249 196 282 .,.,,...196 122,124. ....,45. 283 282 281 196 278 196 196 258 277 ........l96 ffiiE.Q ...,196, 275 247 258 ...-.-1-.-i--.-.---- Hahish, Brad ,,.........,.. . Babish, Mike ,,.. Bachump, Monica . Badciong, Chris ......,.... Bader. Kim ...,....... . 196, Bahareen . Beheshteh . 275 275 196 282 266 196 Bailey. Curtis . . . Bair, Bill ...... Baker, lid . . . Baker,John . . Baker. Ted ..... Baldwin. Cnrol ..., Bale. Melanie ...... Hales, Susan Justice , Hales, Susann ...,. Balleau, Dave ...... Bnllesteros, Susan . . Bamghose. Anthony . Bangle, Kristin ..... Hanh. Vanessa ,.... Banks, Curtis ..... Bannister, Lisa ..,. Banzer, .lncquie . . . Barber, Jeff .....,, Bardhun, Tridip .... Barilla, Richard . . . Barkley, Sabrina , . . Barnard, Sheila . . . Barnes, Dee Dec . . . Barratt, Teresa .... Bartuch, Brian .,,. Bass, Ronald ..., Bates, Brad ,.... Bates,Christine . . . Bates, Dana . . , . Bates. Francis . .... Battersnn. Lorna . . . Baxter, George ,,.. Hays, Scott ..... Bazil, Teresa ..,.. Beacout, Warren . . . Bear, Tracey ..... Heaty, April .... Beck, Laurie ..,. Beck, Shari ,...... Becker, Leonard . . . Becker, Susan ..... Becont, Erica . . , Beene, Richard .,.. Heels. Brad ...,. Behny, Mark .... Heilman..1im . Beilmnn. Rose Bell, David . . . Bell, .lainie , . Bell, Vickie. . Hell, WVnyne , . Benetz, Lisa .... Benson, Fred . . . Heny slick, Tracy . . . 196, 64, 811255, ffiii. Beratahani, Agus . ..... . . . Bergstrom. lflizaheth ....... Berndt, Karen ......., .... Berry, Rita .,..... Bertram, Gina ,... Betzen, Rose .. . Beyc, Eddie ..... Beyeler, Arnie .... Beyer, John .,.. Barndt, Karen , , , Hiekhard. Mutt . . . Bierman, Mark ..., Binford, Charles. . . Birchtield, Steve . Bishop, Jeff ..... Bittner. Ernie . . . B1ack,Gordon . . . Blair. Stephanie . . . Blase, Perry .,,. Bleile. Gina . . , Blevins. Ron .... Blide, Jeanette . . . Blount, Jimmie , . Blume, Greg .... Blunknlames , , , Blunt, Keith .... Boaz, Frank .... Boes. Mike ... House, Ray . . . Bohm, Brigid .... Boie, Kip .....,.. X252 75255, Yi-5, 248, Bolander. Paula ,... ..... Boiar, Mark .... Boles, Vallu .... Bnleski, .left ..,. Bolt, Stuart . . , , . . Hornburg, Kurt . . . ' iii. Bond, Paul . ....... . . . . Bone, Brad ...,........... Bunehrake, Michael ...,..., Bonner,Carl ..... . .. ..... Bonstell, Ron . . . Hooker, Tony .... 283 275 . 75 276 196 .22 196 243 244 249 246 256 2811 196 198 198 280 138 198 282 198 241 280 198 276 198 243 198 198 271 198 282 255 198 278 275 269 264 286 198 198 278 .65 272 285 271 . 78 251 271 2611 282 199 202 281 199 199 278 277 280 256 259 285 249 199 270 271 199 278 282 276 256 199 271 281 289 279 256 265 199 282 259 249 278 199 266 246 271 246 287 245 275 199 252 199 241 254 287 Lolcman, .lacquelin ..... 202 Boothe, Jeanette. . . Booths, Stacey ... Born, Rodney .... Borrego, Tom .,..., Boubounais, Margrct Bowman, Chris .... Bowman, Susan , . Bowy'er,Jamcs . , , Boyd. Becky . .. Boys, Ben .... Braaten, Kris .... Bradbury-, kurt .... Bradlield. Mia ,.., Bradley, Kurt ..... Bradshaw, Alison, , . Bradshaw, Don , , . Bradshaw, Steyen. Braendle, Jill .... Bramhall, Brian . . . Brand, Joe ,... Brant, Ted .,,. Branum, Ron .,.. Bravo. Marion ..,, Brecheisen. Laurie , . Breckenridge, lirie , . Breckenridge, Janette Bredcngerd, Cody' . . Brenneman,Doug . . Brcnnerman, Rod , . Briggsnlaunila . . . Brimhle, Diane . Bristow, Cindy' . . . . Brock, Randall ..,, Brock, Tim ..,..,. Brockman, Rachel . . Brookhouscr. Tiffany' , , . Brooks, Jay .....,,. Brooks, Tammy Brown, Bill ..,. Brown. Chris . Brovyn, Darin . . Brown, David ,.... Brown, Donald ..., Brown, Jennifer . . Brown, Karen .... Brown, Kim ,., Brown, Kurt , . . Brown, 1,inne , Brown, Ron ,.... Brown, Vicki .... Browne, Shirley . . . Bruce, Barbara. . . . Brumlield. Don . . Bruvnincr, Sherry . . Brummett,.1cfl' . . . Bruner, Steye . . Brunner, Chris. Brutehin, Patricia. Bryde. Paul ...... Buchanan, Shana , . Budzowski, Hecky Buehlcr, Marlene . . Buehler. Martini ., Buehre,11cidi ..,. Buettenbach. Cary 41 201, 2 23 2 401, 2. 01, 201. 242, 199 201 271 277 242 201 279 258 279 275 288 285 201 285 201 249 201 288 272 255 241 289 279 201 201 280 276 289 276 201 276 286 201 282 287 279 278 279 252 275 201 271 201 276 287 287 275 275 276 278 139 201 244 280 275 265 245 201 201 279 281 246 201 277 .59 Buleigh. Armand . , . Bumgarner, Rene . Bump, .lohn .,.. Bumpus, Dave . . Bunton, Todd ..,, Burch, Betty ....... Burch, Fredrick .... Burdctl., Dave .... Burke. Cheryl . . . Burnett. Vince . . Burrell, .lon ..... Burroughs, Perry' . . . Burroughs, Sherri ..... Burrus, Brian .... . . . . Busada. Amy' . . ,,,, . . . Bush, Kimberley .... Butler, Rc! ...... Butler, Tim ...,, Buttry, Tonya .... Butts, Jeannine , , Byer, Brenda , . , Bynum. Lisa .... ..., 2 201 2 282 287 271 278 276 201 201 272 198 273 248 201 201 272 280 201 259 272 281 201 289 252 . ...............-.- Cabala, Debby' .,,....,...,, Caesar, Wanda , . . Cahill, Patricia . . , Cain, Pat ...,.,.. Caldwell, Carl . , . Call, Laura ....,. Callahan, Lisa . . , Callison, Shawn .... Calvert, Scott .... Calvin, Gretchen . . . Cannady, Cathy .,.. Cammarn, Vicki . . . Campbell, Donna . Car1son,Chris . . . Carmody-, Denise . , , Carpenter. Laura . . ..,,.... . Carr, llenry ,........... . . . ,.,...,..123. 124.125, 127, Larr, Vlilliam ...... , , ...,. . Cusey,Jim ,.... .,.. Casey , Kim ,.... . Casey , Sharilyn ..,. Casteneda, Silvia . . . Castle, Andy .,.. . Cavender. Ricky . . . Caywy ood, Doug ..... Chakaroun. Saleh . . . Chang. Mark .,..,.. Chapman, Rhonda. . . Charles, David ..... Charles, Randy' .,.. Chavez, Mary Kay . . Chavez, Tim , . . Chavez, Vic . . 269 251 251 282 282 201 242 280 201 242 246 279 286 20 . 254 201 283 261 275 269 281 280 288 201 272 255 201 279 201 266 261 201 261 Chilherry, Florencia Childers, Vicki ,,,, Childs, Temple .... Chisham, Kim . . . Chismar, Ron .... Cholmia, Randy , ,. Christian, Roy' . , . Ciskowski, Tom . . . Cisneros, Marisa . . Clapp. Carl ..,,,. Clark, Greg ....., Clark, Kevin ,..... .........202,254. Clay, T. .....,,. . Cleary, Karen, . .. Clegg. Roger ..., Clem, Ray' ....., Clithero. Paul .... Cluff, Mike ..... Coad, Rex ,.,, Coates, Chris . . . Coats, Thomas. , . Cobb, Alan .... . Coehran, Kent . . . Cochran, Kim .... Coffcr, Robert ..., Coflindaffcr, Thad . Cogan. Mary' lillen . Co1L1vvater,1friC , , , . . , ,202. 1 1 1 133. '2fJ2,'.ifLfQ,' 211254 .....202, Coleman,Ccdric . . . . . . . . . . Cole Collar, Mary .... . , man, Ronald . . .202, 256 Collins, Danny' .... t.o1lins,Lane1l .... Lollinsworth, Sarah ..... Conde, Antoinette . Connor, Susan , , . Conrad, Shelley' . . . 202 255. .40 Consolver, Cathy . . .25-1, 2 76. Combs, J,C. ........,..... . Cook, Janet ..., Cookhlennifer . . Look. Mark .... Cooks,tl1iver .,.. Coomes. Jeff .... Cooines, Cooper. Cooper, Cooper, Rick .,.. ......,. Katherine ...... 202 Randall ....,...,... lMorganl Ty' ...,..., ...,......203,255, Cornell. Chris .... . . Cosman, Myortg .... Cotton, Suzanne . . . Couch, Kyle ,...., . , Coyalt Fisher, Virginia Coyington, Julie .,,, Cox,.'X1esia ,,,. ,. Cox. Angie . . Cox, Bill .... Cox, Greg ,.,. Cox, Kimberly .. Cox,Susan . . . Cozad, Laura ,,.. Crabtree. Mark . . . . .203, 203, 287 249 202 263 282 271 282 282 246 282 258 269 270 280 278 277 202 251 288 282 202 272 276 281 282 271 286 202 283 279 277 246 273 202 249 259 279 280 280 .94 279 263 275 260 276 276 275 282 257 251 259 263 256 203 203 287 276 203 251 203 264 246 272 Craft, Becky ...... Craghead, Chad . , . Craig, Christopher. Craig, Mark ..,... Crane, Randy' ..... Crannier, Russell . . Cranston, Mike . , , Criss, Troy ..,.. Crotiby, Cindy' . . Cross, Rose . . Crow, Judy .... Cudjo, Paula .... Culhane, .lim ..... 286 271 203 249 271 273 275 245 286 249 279 287 271 280 283 287 .53 266 .88 2 03 269 249 Cummings, Linda. . ..,. 203, Cundiff, Cary ,.,.. ....,. Currie, Chris . ..,, , Curtis.Brian ... ...,., Curtis, Brian ... ..., 203, Cutler. Bruce . ..,.. . Daeschtter,Ju1ic. .. .... ... . Dugenhart, Cheryl ...... 205, Dalal, Vistasp ..... ...... Daniel, Allison .... .,,,150, Dauhcrt, Carol . , .. ... , . . Davidson, Andy' .. . .. . . . Davis. Brent .... Dayis. Christy .. ... Davis, Gale . . . Davis, Greg. . . Dayis, Sheryl . .......,.... . Dayis. Yiola ....... 205. 255, Dawood i, May .... ........ Dawson. 'lierria . . . .... 149. Dawson, Tyrone Day, Nancy ,,,... ..... Dc Silva, Decma ..., . . . Dearinger, Michelle . . . . . . . . Dcaver, Bruce ,.... ..... Deny er, Loren .... . . . DeBroeck,1'i1ly' .,.. ..... DcBuhr, Kelli . .. ... DcChant, Gina .... ...., Decoek, Carol .... .,,,, Deering. liric . . . Dees. Doug ........ ..... DeCrallenreid,Jefl' , . , . . . . , Dcjma1,1.y1e ,..... ,,,,, Dekker. Steyn: ..... . . , DcMars,.1.nnette .,....... . . Demel. Gregory' ............ .,.,,........205.251.263, Dcndy, Lillian ...,........, Denning, Dan .............. Denson. Fric ...,........ , . .,,,.....,.-14, 132, 133, 135. Dcrstine, Ronda .......... , , Dcrstinc. Tim , .... 205, Dester,1.isa . . .... 205, Detar, Teresa . . . Dette, Cindy ..., . . . Deyall, Mary .,. .., Dey, Ann .............,... Diaz-Sanchez, Yumin ...... Dick, Steve .... ......, . 248, Dickey. John William ...,.... Dickey, Lisa ,....., . . . Diebold, Jim .... . . . Dillon, Randall .... ... Disney,Ji11 ..... .,. Dixon, Sheila ... ..., .,., Dixon, Kary ........,...... Dnan, Pamela ...... 205, 256, Doanc,'1'odd . . . ..... . . .. Dobbs, Larry ... ... Doll, Debra. ., ... Doll, Melissa .... , , . mu, Randy .. ... Donner, Wayne . . . . Dorra, Brian ......... . . . Dougherty, Maj. Joe ......... Douglas, Scott .......,... . . Douglass, Michele ...... 205, Dowing, Mike ..,... ...... Dowler. Kristine ..,......... ,......,,66, 67, 68, 69, 201, Downing. Nancy ....... 205, Drake, Shelley' ... .... .. Drehcr, Jackie ..,.......... Drciszigcr, Maria ....... 205, 284 . 26 272 205 279 242 287 205 280 205 284 282 280 255 205 249 249 2 75 . 83 280 205 276 2 7 7 2 71 205 2 71 275 273 284 205 282 205 249 277 205 276 205 266 205 266 267 205 249 205 275 258 285 264 275 275 205 266 266 282 272 259 205 281 275 262 279 273 279 244 DrowaLsky,1iric. Duckctt. Mark ,... Duda,.ludy ...,, Duke, Dayid .... Duke. Karen ,... Dukes,Ccci1 ...... Duncan, Edward . . Duncan, Randy' . , . Dunn, Chris .... Dunn, Gail .,.. Dunn, Sharla ...,. Dunnington, Lisa . . Duplissc, Anthony' ,... Dupont, Robin ..... Duran. lngrid .,... Durano. Antonio . . Durbin, Chris . . . Durham,Shane . Dusek, Denise . Dyer, Holly ... ..2 05, 276 251 275 201 205 252 138 ,..201 .74, 75 ,.201, .,205. .76 279 256 282 275 275 272 275 285 281 277 ----1111 liads, David . , , Fag1in,John .,. 1ius1cy.,Larry' ... liutman, Kim , . . liaton, Dwight .... lidigcr, Rick ..,,.. lidmundson, Mary' . lidwards, Greg .... liicham, Tammy' . . liklund, Karen . . Eldridge, John , . Elgin, Rich ,,,. lilliot.Chris . . . lilliot, Shawn . . . li11io1,'1'racy . , , Fllis. Barbara ..,,, Ellison, Mike ..... lil-Chalayini, Rashid . . limam. Shel' ...... limam, Tammy' . . . Emery, Martin ,,,. lingcls, Mike .... 15ng1e,Cy'nthin . . linglc. Kerry ,... linstrom, La Shawn 1inlow,.1cffrcy . , linoeh, Joyce ,..., lirickson. Michael . Fry in. Frank ..,,,. Frvin, Rcnne ,,,,. Fubanks, Ronald . . liulligar, llohain Fvans, Greg . . . livans,11ilary ... Fvans, Jill ....,. liyans, Sheryl . . . Evans, Taunia .... liveland, lilisabcth . liwnld, Julic ,..... liwing, Krist ,,.. Hwy. Charles .. Faley , Curry .... Fankhauscr. liric . . Farahec, Kim . . . Farhu. lirin .,.. .. 68, fi fi ..2 ..2 69, 59 42, 06. 56, . ,206, Far11a,Mark . ...... 251, 278, Farhal. Khoder .... 1'auchicr, Cathy ,..... Faulkner. Roxanne Ferguson, Dawnita Ferguson, Mike . . . Fewin, llroc ,,.. Fields, Bill ...,, Fields, Brent ....., Fieser, Fredrick .... Figueroa, Romaine Findley, Doug ..... H Findlay. Kevin Fine. Jane . . . Finney, Brian . . Finney, Rick .... ..2 55. is 265 205 266 264 282 276 245 282 205 280 277 2-19 2 71 2 71 271 265 2 73 205 205 206 249 2 76 266 28 1 276 206 206 206 282 206 206 206 248 288 264 242 281 254 28 1 286 206 249 252 272 279 283 258 260 206 206 268 282 272 288 207 242 244 .26 241 275 276 Fishernlodi. . . Fisher, Lee ..,.. Fisher, Tim ..... Fitzgerald. Lind.. ...,, Flechtner, Michael ......... Fleming, Janice . ...., , . . . . Flcsher, Matthew , , . 207, 256, Flick, Michelle . . . Flood, Debbie . . . Flores, Frank ..., Flores, Tony .... Fly, Robin .... Foley, David .... Folger, Ken ..... Forbes. Jeff .,... Forbes, Stephanie Ford. Cindy ..... Fortney, Kristina . Foster, Brett .... Foster. Brian Foster, David .... Foster. Louis .... Fowler, Traci . . . Fox, Elaine ..,.. Fox, John ,....,. Foxworth, Maurice Frank, Cindy . . , Frank, Debbi . . . . Franklin. Perry . . Franz, Diana .... Frazey, Gil ...... Frazier, Linda . . . Frazier, Susan . . . Freeman. Terry . . Freund, Clara .... Freund, Deanna . , Freund, Elizabeth Freund, Joan .,.. Frey, Scott ,.,.., Friendly, T. . . . . Fridman, Buma . . Fritz, Robert . . . 276, 146, A 'iii iii, 207, Qllfiii, 276, 251, 279 276 272 256 197 207 264 281 284 272 275 207 271 249 289 287 256 279 207 241 252 251 207 207 249 282 249 280 272 207 249 207 207 246 255 279 281 268 208 270 213 208 Froetschner, Kelly Fuhr, John ...... Fuhr, Joseph ..... Full. W.E ..... Gahrielson, Nils . . Gaffney, David . . . Gaines. Fred ,.., Gamache, Bill .... Gamelsun, Julie . . Gardner. Randy . . Garrett, Greg .... Garrett, Kirk .,.. Garrett, Sheridan . Gasper, Sue ..... Gaston, John .... Gaston. Nina.l. . , Gates, Jeff .....,. Gates, Patricia . . , Gntewood, Daniel Gatz, Angie ,.... Gaudreau, Steve . . Gaurkee, Nancy . . Gaylord. Lisa .... Gebhart, Kim .... Gee, Mitch ..,,. Gegen, Phil ..,... Geisler, Sherry . . . George, Nin ..... George, Tom ,... Georgeson, Sharon ..,...20 QffQQ2siQ Mil QQQQIQ55' ...,.,.......208,247.256, Georgiou. Diane .......... . . Gerst, Laura . . . . . Ghanoui. Jamal .... .... Gibson, Gary . , . Gibson,Genrgc . Gibson, Pam ..., Giefer, Marilyn, . Giesen, Katherine Giesen, Myra . . . Gilbert, Dan ,,,. Gilbert, Tony . , . Gile, Brenda . . . Gilger, Rich . . . Gillet. Buck ,... Gilliland, Melissa Gillmore, Brian . Gillum, Mike . . . Gilmartin, Brian. Gilmore, Nancy . Ginest, Shelley . . Ginns, Mary .... Gipe, Elizabeth. . 26, 28, 208 . ...... 68, 69 ......280 ....,246 .....208 .,...208 ,....282 .....282 ..,..279 .....276 ......4S .....246 ...H208 ....,252 ,.,..2S9 ,.,..208 , ,... 280 ..,,,......280 .............254,262,263,279 Giri, Madhu .,., Giri, Uma ....., Gitachu. John . . . Gjersif.ld,Diane . .....208 . ........ 208 Gladden. Rebecca ....... 208. 246 Glancy, Vanessa . Glenn, John .... Glinsey. Thomas Godsey, Vito ..., Goehring. Jerry , Goering. Cindy . . Gomez. Joe ...,. Gonzalez, Dana . Gooch, Vanessa . Goodwyn, Ron . . Goossen, Carl. . . Gordon, Anthony Gormally, Tom . Gorman, Teri . . . Gosman, Albert . Gosney, Julia . . Gott, Troy . . . ......278 .....244 ,.,,.282 .....2S2 ......75 ,..........208 . .... 251.272 ...,.. .280 .......208,277 ...... .208 .....269 .,...287 ..,...59 .....260 ...U258 ......79 .,...27l Grabandi, Christian Grace, Gretchen . . . Gragg, Gretchen . . . Gratham, Judy . . . Graves. David . . . Gray, Donald .... Gray.Frances . Gray, Randy ..... Green, Howard . . . Greenwood. Ken , . Greer, Greg ..... Gribble, Carol . . . Grier,Chur1es . Grier, Douglas . . . Grics,J.C. ..... . Griffin, Felecia .,.. Griswold, Bruce . . . Griswold, Jinger . . Grogan, Mark .... Grubb, Cheryl . . . Grubb, Lisa ,,... Grubi, Jeremy .,.. Guilliams, Michael . Guizlo, Steve . . . . . Gundersen, J.N. . ., Gunter, Brian .... Guoladdle, Tracy . . Gustin, Lisa ...,. Gwynne, Don .... Haus. David . . . Haas, Kara .,.... Hacker. Russell . . . Hadley, Christopher . . , . . . . Hagan, Heidi ,.... 256 279 279 280 253 208 259 208 282 285 259 279 208 208 249 263 208 208 285 208 243 288 208 242 249 . 79 208 249 250 28 5 2 79 208 208 286 Hager, Gary ..... Haider, Syed ..... Haigler, David . . , Hai lc, J. ,... , llaist, Edna ..., Hoist, Mark . . . H aieer. Jehad .,.. Hajain, Abbas . . . Hale, Jeff ,..,, Hall, David .,.. Hall. Gib .....,.. Hall, Roger ....... Halseth, Theodore . Hamant, Dana . . . Hamilton, Cherie . . Hamilton, Leusha . 241,242 . . .208 208,264 . . . . ,.270 208 jffiii. Hammond, Douglas . . . , . , , Hanse, Diane ..... Hansen, Kim .,,, Hansen, Lonnie . . Hanson. Lauri ,. , Hantla, Troy . . . Harbounlulie . . Harden, Karen . . . Harden, Thomas . . Harder, Lois ...,, Harder. Tom ...,. 1-lardesiy, Candy , , Harding, Kevin . . . Harding. Martin . . . Harjati, Henrylin , . Harkins, Mike .... Harmon, Dorothy . ...iss 242. 211. 148, Harmon-Ligon. Kim ........ Harp, Sheri ....... Harpen, Michell . . . Harper, Kristi ..., Harris, Darrin . , . Harris, David ..,. Harris, Chris . . . Harris. Mike .... Harris, Mike ..,. 208 211 211 272 211 211 282 211 256 211 243 211 252 284 282 281 0 242 284 211 .90 .91 278 259 211 211 258 252 267 278 279 246 271 272 278 256 278 DEX Harris, Shelly . . . Harrison, Rob .... Harrison, Trey .... Harshlield, Jeff ,.,. 281 242 287 27,7 256 Hartman. Larry , ...... , , . . Hartwick. Christine .,.. . . , . Harvey. Kevin .... . . Harvey. Wayne . . . Hasrzall, Susan . . . Hasan, Lynda ..,.. . . . Hastirlgs, Sandra ,. .... . Hathaway. Jeannine . . . . Haught. Brad ....... Hmm. Brad ....... Hawkins, Eddie . . . Hawkins, R ...,,.. Haydon, Randy . . . , . , Hayes, David .... ..,.. Hayes. Dayla ....,,.... Hayes.Nate , ,. . . . .45 Hayes, Pat ..,... ..... Haynes, Pamela ......,. Haywood. Barry ....... Headly, Kent ..... , , , Hendrick, Leasha .,..... Heath. Heidirnari ....... Heatherly, Lisa , . . , , . Hebert, Denise . . . . . . . . Heiman, Steve .....,... He-imerman, Rich . . . Heil, Lora ..,.. . , . Heller, Tracey .... Hellman. .lim ,.... . . Hembree, Julia-Mae ..., Henderson, Gina .... Hendex-son,.lim ..,,, . . , Henline, Sandra ......,. Henning, David . . . . , . Henson. Dave ...,. Henson, Frank ..., Hepburn, .lim .... Herder, Cole .... ..... Herman. Shelli , . . . . , , . Hermann, Lori .....,,,. Herndon, Bill .,.,.,.... Hershberger. Frances , . . Hershberger, Vanessa . . . Heftel, Duane ...,,.... Hertel, Troy ...., Herynk.Angiu . . , Herynk, Teresa . . . . . Hcrze!,Beth,,... Hesse.Karl..,. Hihhs, Loren .... Hickerson, Marcy . Hickson, Frank , . . Higgs, Frank ..... Hightower, Lisa . . . Hill, Robert ..... Hiltonnlohn ..... Hil!0n,Sean .,.,, Hines, Reinke .... 269, 211 ZH 131 2I1, I4-3, 211. 211, 211, 246, iii 211. v v Hines, Robert .. ..,,,..... . . Hinman, Raleigh . . ,... .... . Hiser. Teresa , . .... , . . . Hoagland, Laura ,. Hobson, Rossa .,,, Hockett, George . . . Hoffman, Christine . . Hoffman, Larry , , . Hoffmans, Tim ..., Hogan, Candra ,... Hogan. Phillip .... Hoggat, Jeff . . , . . Hogland, Diane . . . Hogue, Roxanne ..., Holbrook, Perry, . . Hale. Ken ...,,... Holcstine, Sandra . . , Hollis. Deborah ..... Holloway, Derrin .... Holmes, Glenn ..., 276, Holmes, Larry ...,.,....... Holmes,Nam:y . . . , , . . . Holroyd, Martha lMomJ 212, Hopkins, Kellie . , ....,,.. . Hoppock . Kevin ..,. .... 212. Horne,Curtis..., Hass, Jane ,...,,... Hostetler, David .,.., Hauser, Paul ..,.. H oward, Jongy ,.,. Howard. Mari . . Howell, Amy .... H owell, Kevin .... Howell, Sieve . . Zll 287 282 279 253 27'-I .89 211 272 282 211 254 269 275 282 251 281 266 285 2Ii 277 211 279 276 276 286 280 257 211 266 21k 242 Z!! 289 282 285 211 280 279 289 211 241 287 272 246 21 l 280 277 285 .42 282 282 275 249 211 272 211 282 258 281 Zll 280 211 Zll 276 277 212 212 27l 246 260 256 276 2l2 212 276 218 282 279 279 246 254 265 212 212 271 H2 279 212 271 272 Hoyer. Linda .... Hudson,Todd , . . Huebery, Steve .... Huelsmann, Brad .... . . , Hughes. Ellen .... Hufl Angela ..... Hundley, Alben . . . Hungate, Todd .... Hunt, Jeff ..,,,.,... , . . Hurley. Margaret ,.., . . Hussain, Fayyaz ..,, . . . Huston, Tamara ,... ,... . . . Hutchinson, Douglas ........ Hybsha, Lisa ......,.. . . . 280 282 272 212 273 212 282 272 266 . 269 2l2 212 212 212 -1--.--.--11- I ' lngrnire, Peter . . lrwin, Amy .... lsham, Karen . . . Jasfar. Basil .... .lsbarapioe . . . Jack. Robbie . . . Jacks. Teresa . . . Jackson, Clark ..., Jackson, Dawn ..., Jackson, Randy . . , Jacobs, Donna ..,. ........,,...2l2, James, Doug ..,,,, James. Lane . . . . . James, Steve . . . Jxmtzen. Kris . . . Jantzi, Pau! ....,.. Janzen, Brenton, A . Janzen, Ken ...... Janzen, Lori ,.., Jarvis. Verlan . . . Jayes, Pam ..... Jennings, Donnie . . Jerry, Mom ..,..,. Jessogne, Carrie , . . .leteruludy ,..,, Jeter, Rod ..... Jen, Vicki . . . .,,.257 ....276 ....212 ....2l2 ..,,273 ,..,246 ....280 ....27S 212 .....,...l36 258 269 212 249 281 2 12 212 256 263 ,212 .275 .212 280 2 76 .289 ,287 281 Jewett, D.G ..... Joensen, lid .... Johns, Wendy . . . .lohnsun.Dave . . Johnson, DeeDe . . , Johnson, Erin ...,, 'wisil Johnson,Greg ...... . . . . Johnson. Kathleen ..,,. ..., Johnson, Kelly . ..... . . . , Johnson, Lynnettc Johnson. Pat ,.,... Johnson, Randy ............ Johnson, Robert ....,... Johnson, Sharon . . 135. .254. 255, J ohnson. Sheri ........,.... Johnson, Stefanie . . .2l2,254, Johnson. Tanya ......,..... Johnson, Tim . . . Johnsonffodd . . . Johnston, Rachel .... .... Joiner. Claire , , , , . Jonas. Peter ..., Jones, Brent ..,. Jones, Cliff .... Jones, James .... Jones. Jane ..,.. Jonesplason ,... Jones,Jeff ..... Jones' Kim .,.. Jones, Linda . . . Jon:-:s,Patty , . , Jones, Randal . . . Jones, Rohm .,...,..... 212, Jones, Shannon , . . Jordan, Diana, . . Jordan, Lori ..,..,.. .... Jovanuwic. Milan . Juenke,Dan...,.:H .lu1ian,T0m KaI1l,l.ori . . . Kaiser.Kim , .. Kamal, Nm-ges . . . 249 l 06 264 267 246 212 282 2!2 277 281 271 285 282 256 212 258 287 252 271 212 2 12 272 287 271 . 65 279 256 283 212 242 246 212 269 275 280 273 258 285 285 212 246 266 Kamp, Alissa ..... Kaspar, Suzanna . . Kassebaum, Sean . , Kasten, Ame ...... Kasten, Ruger . . . Katcr. Karen ...... Kauffman, Dave . . . Kaufman. T ....... Kaufmann, Heidi . . Kay. Frances ..... Kueny, Pam ,,.. Keiter,Debbie .. Keith, Greg ....... Ei-if I f I I 12511 .jlfisif . .... 276, Kellcnbarger, Lance .... , , . Kelley, Carla ..... Kelley. Nina . . . Kelley, Susan . . Kelley, Terry . . . Kellog, Amy ,,.. Kelly, Frank .... Kelly. Kevin . . . Kelly, Tim ..,, Kelly. Wendy ..... Kemnitz, Brent .,.. Kemp. Donna . , , Kendall, Brent .... Kenemer, Robert . . Kennedy, Shaun . . . Kentdassendra , , , Kerschen, Thomas . Ketehum,G ,....., Ketron, Chris ..... Ketteman. David . . Keys, Phil .,...... Keyser, Rebecca . . . Kidd, Brent ....... Kinard, Mike . . Kinc:aid,Chris . Knapp, Joel .... Knider, Kody . . . King, Charlie . . , King, David . . . King. Greg .... King, Julie . . . King. Melanie . . King, Roger .... Kiralyfalvi, Bela . . . Kirby. Jeff .,,... Kirk, Rita ...,,. Kirkhart, Renae . . . Kirner, Janice , . . Kiser, Loren .... Kiser, Scott ,,.... Kissinger, Paul .... Kitchen, Brian .... Kite. K .,....,.. Klaassen, Brenda . . Klausmeyer, Steve . Kluck, Donald .,,, 277, ..fIi5iQ Knickerbocker, Lee Ann ..... Knight. Darryl ............, Knorp, Julie . , .......,.. . . . Knox. Cindy .... Knudsen, Dina ..., Knudsen, Manic . . . Koehler, Kent . . . Kohr, Cathy ....., Kornelson, John . . . Kosich, Tum ..., Kouri, Sammy .... Krutz, Jill ...,,, Krause, Jeff ...... . . .l47, Krehbiei, Sharon . .......,. . Kreisslcr, Dianne ...... .276, 212 246 . 77 279 254 264 282 270 ZI4 214 28l 242 252 277 279 281 214 214 .16 241 285 278 287 285 214 271 214 247 269 214 270 214 272 282 214 214 274 272 ,9l 287 ,77 214 275 279 215 277 .77 272 215 286 279 276 271 256 258 270 215 263 215 215 285 276 284 242 215 215 215 287 283 271 275 273 246 281 Kretchmer, Randy . . . Kreutzer, Robert .... Krier, Sherri .,.. Kritzer, Kim .... Kroeleer, Karen . , , Krueger, Gretchen . Krug, Audrey . , . Krug, Pamela . , , Kuhlman,Kim Kurimskyffroy , . . . . , . . Kurz. Tnni .. . . . Kruwell, Vicki .... . . . . . 215, 271 215 246 281 279 279 215 215 269 279 217 217 Lubra. Tim .... Lackey, Ronda , . l.aFever, Greg , . . . Lalgever, Lisa. . . llahey, Teresa ..., Laird,Milt0n . . . Lakin, Valarie . . Lamb. Anthony ........ 25 LambrighX,Ruy . . . . . . , . Lampe, Daryl . . . Lund. Shawn . . ....... . . Landis, Darin . . . . , .217, 24 Landis. Gregrey .......... Lane. Anthon y .... Lune, Stephanie . , , , . . . . .. if sf Laney, Chris ...,,...... 217. Laney, Susan .,.... 217, 251, Langloix, Cynthia ..,,. . . 14 Lansdowne. Chatwin ..,... Larcau. Allen ....... Larson, Caryn ..., Larson, Larry, . , Lary. Jill ...... Lary, Scot! .... Laskey, Otis ........ Lasslcy. kim .....,....... Lautenschlager, Debbie .... 217, Lawless, Shelley ...,...... l.avin,.lames ., ...,. . . . l.ca,Wangue 9, Lawrence. David . ,..... 24? sv LeBlanc, Kenneth ...... 217 Legerwnod, Joanie . , . . . . . . Leggens, Rhonda . . Leon, Sabina .... Leonard, Ray , . . Leone. Michelle . . ,.,.., 139 Leslie, Charlene. . . . . . . . Lesueunjcannine , . . Letoumeau, Jeny ,... Leu. Kathy ....... Lewis, Dana .... Lewis, Doug ..... l.ewiS,.luditli ,,.. Lewis, Ken ...... Lewis, Michelle . . . Lewis, Steven .... Lewis, Trecia . , . Liddell, Gloria ,,.., .... 2 80 Liebst, Layne .... Liechti, Teresa .,,. Lien, Chin ..... Limaye, Nishad . . . Lines, Bruce . . . , v 217 257 285 278 246 217 279 278 217 271 285 263 2i 7 Zl? 217 266 263 284 217 287 217 272 281 272 282 286 242 251 246 271 217 275 246 287 253 255 217 217 265 242 266 249 143 217 282 250 217 217 287 282 256 217 269 275 Linn, Mary ..... Linnehur. Vicki .. ,. . . Lister, Dayid .... .... Livingston. Ricky . . . Lloyd, lilla ..,,. Logan, Stacie . Lomax, Alan . . . . Loney, Stephanie . . .2 Long, Allison . . . . Long, Connie ..., . Long. Nancy' ..,,,, . Longsworth, Paul ..,. Loomis, Lloyd .,... Lopez,Jon .,....., Lopez, Richard . , .... . . Lopez-Chayero, Sergio . . Lorenz, lilise .......... Louderhack, Jay ..,..... Loudermilk, Chris ...,.. Loudermilk, Kim . Louis, Daniel ,....... . 1,ud1keJ'. Christopher . . . Luke. Todd. ..... . . Luke, Shannon.. ,. . , Lund. Larry ..... Lundstedt, Gary ..,. 1.unnon,l3arry . . . Lusk, Dorothy ... Lyle. Mark ..... Lyles. Susan .... Lynge. lid .,,. Lyons, Bruce . . . Lyons. Carol . . . Lyons, Tim . . , l.ytlc.1'auI .., Macauly , lieth ..... Machche,l'1cnedict .... Mackay. Brent . , . Maddy. Stex c .,.. Mahchi, Audelia. . Lonergan, Kathy . ..,... 17, 217 217 2-16, iii iii iii iii iii 217 245 244 287 287 279 256 246 264 276 287 275 266 2-ll 217 217 282 246 288 282 267 217 217 271 28-4 245 276 285 217 ,258 .1-4, 77 Maher, Carmel . . . ,,,. . . .. Mainz, Paul ........... 218, Majid, Rose Ahdul .......... Malcolm, Juli' .... 256 269 217 287 217 281 218 218 259 218 287 242 249 251 Mali, Sunil ..... Mallonee. Mark . . . Malone, Laurie .,.. Malone. Mark ..,.. Malone, Shelli ,..., Manahan, Cheryl . . . Manion, Daniel . . , Mann, Jim .... Mann, Mary' . , Mans, Kim ... . . Manson, Dan . . . Manson, Dorine , , , Mansouri, Saeed .... Manz, Kari ......, Mar, Lem ...... Maranda, Mario . Marcotte, Brian . . . Marcum, Susanne , . Maroney, Brad ....... Marquardt, Chuck .... Marsh, David , ...... . Marshall, Rehecea .,.. Martens, Rod ,....... Martin, Angela , . , Martin, Dehhic . . Martin. Joyce ..,, . Martin, Michael .... Martin, Susan .... Martin, Troy .... Martino. Maria .,,. Mascus, Stephanie . , Mason, Dr. Barbara . . , Masonnlacqueline . . Massey, Kelley . . . . . Mateyec. Martina . . . Mathis, Bill ...... Mathis, Julie ,... Matney, Melinda . Matzen,'1'om . . . Mau, Nancy .... . . Maxwell, Beth . . . Maxyyell. Doug . , . May, Stan .,,,,. Mayfield, Gary . . Mayfield, Greg . . . Mayfield, Joi: ... Mays, 'l'roy ',..,. MayS. Wialter .,., Mazeitis. Michelle . . McAdams, Dee. .. McAl1istcr,'l'ricia H218 ..2l8 256. iii N219 fiiib' McBride, Charles . ,.,. 262, 218 2-18 273 278 278 144 218 282 218 242 275 279 218 218 272 275 242 218 285 272 242 264 219 219 280 252 219 219 272 269 279 244 219 262 269 25-1 252 252 249 2-ll 219 282 245 219 249 250 .77 .62 253 273 266 271 MeCleland, Kim ...... McClellan. Christopher . . McCoskey', Anita ..,. . McCoy , Joni ,..,... McCoy, Keith , . . McCoy. Mike ...,,... McCoy , Susan ....... MeCullar. Sgt. lst Class l..C. . McCullough, Diane ...... McCullough, Stephanie . . . McCullough, Madeline .,,, McCune, Shannon . . . . Mcllaniel, Ronald ...,... McDaniel, Xavier ..,..... ., ......... 122-126.176-177. Mel Donald, Bill .,,,...... Mcllonald, Brian ..... . . 133, Mclilrath, Kelli ..... Mclilroy. Michele. . . Ml.:lilroy', Ricky' . . . , Mclilroy, Rowena .... Mclflwain, Tom .... 220, McGee, William ..,....., McGee, Maurice . . . McGill,1irin ,..... McGill, Mary . .. McGinnis, Rita ..,, McGrath, Doug . . . Mcljroder, Kathy' . . , McGuire,Terry' . . . Mcllenry. Karen . . . Mclntyre, Rich .,... McKay, Kimberly . . . McKee.Jeff ....... McKee, Liz ...,.., . Mclicown, Gordie . . McLain, Kathi .... McLaughlin, Pat .,.. McLe1and. Kim .... McLemore, Melissa . . . McLenachen,Josell . . . Mel.uen, Diane ...... 2 2 McMichael, Lee Ann ..... McMillan,Gordon . . M cl'he rson, Melinda ..., 20. 40. 20, McNear, Kelly ,....... . . 220, Mcljuade. Kate ...,..... Mcahon, David ....,.... 2 Meacham, Mike . . . Mead, Ken ..... Meadows, Jim .... Means, Janet ..., 5 279 219 219 279 271 289 2-16 259 253 280 257 281 259 283 144 282 220 286 220 246 220 278 . 11 280 280 244 244 286 277 220 285 220 256 242 289 220 275 220 263 246 242 220 259 260 280 280 256 242 259 259 280 Mears. Julie . . Medina. Mary . . . Medina, Patty' ..... . . . Medsker, Cristi ..,.... . . Mcharaj-Din, Mujahid . . . Mehl. David ..,.,...,., Meier, Kathry n ,...... Mendicina. Dan . ...., . . Mcnhuscn, Tammy ..... .............2-13,25-1, Menzie. Kendall , ..,... . Meridith, B. ,,.... . Merriam, D.F. ...... . Messner, Amber S ,.... Metcalf,'1'im .,..... Meyer, Stephen . . . Meyers, Sherridyn . , Miedrich. Debbie . . , . . Mihalakis, Amy' . , . . , . . Miklos, Sharon ..., . . Miller, Angela .. .. Miller, Cheryl ,.... ,... Miller. lildon ... . . Miller, G.R. ,, Miller. llarree ,.... Miller, J ........,,,.... Mil1er,Ji.:nnifcr ..... 220. Miller, Kelli .... ..... . . Miller, 1.aurie . .. ... ,. Miller, Scott , . . . Mi11er,Susan ... ... , Miller, l'odd .,.. .... Mil1s,Julie . .. Mills, Roger .... Milton, Lori ...... Minden, Michelle ..... Minkley. James ........ Minshull-Ford, Vivien .... Min, Debora ... . ,, Mitchell, Pat ..,. Mitchell, Tyrone Mock, Garth ......, Mogah. Michael .,.,.. ....279 ,,..252 ....252 ...,269 ....220 .,,.282 ,...220 ....282 2557252 ...,220 ....270 ...,Z-19 ....241 .,,.246 ...,265 ..,.256 ... .246 220, 264 ... ,220 . . , .220 220. 269 . . . .220 ...,Z-15 ...,220 ,...220 263, 286 ...,280 ....220 220, 242 ....269 220, 276 . . . .220 ....263 ....260 ....220 ....275 .80, 88 ....2-16 ....272 ....282 ...,220 .,..220 Mohd-Yatim,1lalim ......... 2211 Mohd-Yusoh, Azmi .,,...... 220 Mo1er.Capt. Bruce Ml ..,,,.. 259 Montford, Brian .,........., 220 Montgomery, Dayid ..... 22 Moore. Dustin .,.., lN1oort:.JiIli ..... Moore, Mary . . . Moore, Robert .... Moore, Sandra .... 0, 247 ..,,.,2-11 ....242 ....279 ,..,220 .,,,269 INDEX Moore. Steve . . . Morch. Brenda .... Moreno, Diana .,.. Morgan, Mary' . . Morgan, Pam ...... Morgan, Pat ,........ Morgan lCouperl, Ty . . Morrical, Lauren ,,,.. Morris, Darryl ....... ..,.278 ...280 ....220 ,...279 ....269 ......252 , 255, 257 . . 223, 256 ......287 Morris, Mitchell ........ 131, 282 Morris, Patricia , . . Morris, Roxann . . . Morrow, Leah .... . . Moss, Lyle ,,,., . . Mott, Christ .... , , . Mott, Teri .... . . . Moxham, Diane . . . Mueller, Lisel . .. . . Mueller, Steve .... . , Mullins, Stephanie . . Muntz, John ,.,..,. Murdock, Robert . . . Murphy, Joseph . . . Murphy , Kathy .,.. Murphy. Kenn ,.., Murphy. Todd .... . . Murrow, Keith ,,.. Mutchler, Clill' ,,.. Myer. Larry .... Myers, Timothy . . . Myrick, Brian . . . . . Nader. Nader . . . Nagel, Cindy ..... , Naji, Mohammad ..,. Namee, Leslie .... Namisnak, llrcnda . . . Neary,11rett ....., Neas, Mark ..... Nelson, Francis . . . Nelson. Kenneth . . Nelson, Ron .... Ness, Jodi ........ Ncuway, Dayid ..... Neuwirth. Virginia .... Newby , Sid .,..... Newell, Kristin ,... Newlnan. Cheryl .... Ng, R ..,,,,,... N'ghic1n,llao .. Ngoh, John .... Nguyen, '1'han . . Nguy en, To Lan. Nichols, Bill .... Nichols, Craig .... Nickel. Mark .,..... .....,223 .,,...223 ......256 . .223, 241 . . .... 246 . 72, 74, 75 ......2-62 . ,,.. ..89 ,.2n3,285 ......286 ..,.223 .,..259 ....223 .,,.223 , .... .257 ..223,272 ..,...2S1 ....285 ..,,263 ..,,,.223 ,.223.270 ....223 ..,.252 ....2S8 ,...28-4 ....281 ....272 ,...267 ,...279 ....223 ....271 ....289 ....223 ....223 ....2-15 ....223 ....223 ....270 ....255 ....223 ....223 ,...250 .,..288 ....271 ....271 Nickell, Stacey' .............. 86 Nickell-1 ,and, Sherry ...,....... ............,.....50,52-53,86 Niemann, Jane ..........,.. 223 Niquette, Kendal .... Njorge, Njenga .... Norby Gale ....275 ....223 .. ...223,2-15 Noller, Mike .... ......, 2 23 1 Nornu re, Clint ... ,,,l23, 283 Norris. David . , . Norris, Laurie . . Norris, Roy Jr ...., Nortcutt, Dave . . Nowlin, Linda .... Nurse, Anderson . . .. Nusz, Cindy' .... Ny'e.Jill ..., Nye, Steve ,. . Ny c. Tom ......... . Nystrom, Daniel .... ....223 ....2-12 .,,.250 ....275 ....254 ....282 ....275 ....280 ....272 .,..2-49 ,...223 OT Ionner, Sheila .... U'Donne1l, Al ....,,.. -..250 ....271 U'Kecfe, Maj. Robert ..... . . .259 0'l.ough1in, John ,... O'Millian, Paul .... 0'Shea, Mike .... O'Sullivan, Bill .... ....258 ....2-12 .,..278 ...,271 Paney, Joyce .... Ohrien, Peggy '... Oburn, Ashley' . . Uchs, Leslie ...... Odonnell. Albert . . Oclonnell, Stephanie Oehlert, Chris . . Oell-ters, Jana .,.,. Ofuokwu, Lawrence Ogden, Alvin ..... Olden, Daren , . . Oliver, Douglas . . . Olson, Dave .... Olson. Debbie ..... Olson. Howard ..,. Oneil. Mary' ...... Ordonez, Rafael. . , Organ, Michele . . 0r0zc0.Chris . Orr, Karen .... Orrick, Jill ,,,, Urtega, Peggy . . Orth. Deborah . . Orth. Greg ,,,. Orue, Gloria .,.. Osborn, Jody . . . Osborn, Renae . . -ng 223. 255 254 223 223 223 223 266 223 223 223 223 .52 279 252 223 269 281 223 281 256 225 225 271 288 242 242 Ustlind, Carol . . Otooleulohn . . . Ott, David ..... Overhy. Lt. Col, Overton, Brenda Owen, Robin . . Owens, Mark . . Owings, David . Owings, Tammy ......67 225 272 Glen A .,,.., 259 225 Pack. Kent .,.... Padden. Chris ..,,, Page. Capt. Brian .... Pain, David ....... Palmer. David . . . Pangbum. Virgil . Panizzi, Ronda. . Papke. Karl . . . iiif 276 278 225 279 250 278 259 275 266 225 225 225 283 Parker, Dayid .... . . Parker, Diane .... Parker, Freddie . . Parker, James . . . Parker,Jo lillen ... Parks. Frances . Parks. Lisa .... Parorli. Rubin .... Parr, Jenny .... Patterson, Joel . . , Paugh, Randull ......... Paul, Brian .....,...... 225. 225, 275 260 251 225 225 246 281 286 284 249 225 248 Paulie, Catherine Therese lC.S.J.J Paxson,G. , ....... . Payne, David .... . . Pay ne, Donna , . Payne. Sherry . , . . Peeler. Jim ..., Pegg, Rebecca .... Peliotes, Uenny . . Pellin, J. .,... . Pelly, Rodney ,... Pember, Michelle . . Pcndergraft, Mark . . , Penner. Kevin ...., 225 261 270 243 279 281 249 255 286 2711 287 281 272 285 1'eimington,1Jayid . . . Pennington, Keyin . Perez, John Jr .... Perez, Regina . . PerkinS,Jcl'f . .. Perkins, Steye Perry, Kay .. . . ' 'iisf Perry,Lori,..,.... ..... Persons No Une Knew, 'lih Peters. Geoff ..,.. Peters. Rachel ... Petersen. Emile . . Petersen, Nelson . . Peterson, Debbie . . Peterson, Robin . . . Petty. Barbara . . . Plieiler, Michelle . . . Phelps, Kellie .,.. Phelps. Susan .... Philip, Stephanie .. Piekenpaugh, Molly . . 1'ieken,1irian ..,. . . Piekoik, Ronald . .. Pierce. Annie ..., Pierce. David .... . . . Pierce, Kevin ...,.., ....,45,130.133, 2 Pierce. Lance .... . . . Pierce. Richie ,, Pierce, Ross .. Piesuhl, Annie . Pierson, Polly .... Pike. Man ......... Pinks! on. Rel-iccea . . . Pint, Connie .,.. ... 1 1 ittman, Greg .... . Pitzer. Sheila .. . Platz, Doug .,.. Plovymalt. Curtis . , Pluenneke, Day id .... l'oc.John ......... . Poelm a. lilizuheth . .. Polley, Victor ..,. . I'ol1itt..leun .,,,.. . Pomeroy , Carol ..... x 1 orter, Chuck ..... Porter, M ursh all .... x 1 orter, Randy . . . . ,. Postlethty'uile, Susan Poston. Kayla . . . . Potahl e, John .... Potter, lively n . Powell, Wendy ... Poyyer. lirie .. . Power s. lfarl . .. Pracht, James. Pratt. Pratt. lfric .,... Michelle ... Pratte, John ... Pressnell. Anthony Price, Kim .... Priee.1'anicla.. Price, Vance ..,., Pritchard. Janet .,.. Prnhst, John ....,., Prokop. Douglas . , . Propst, 'lied ,...., Prosser. Rickey , Proust, Vickie . . Proyorse, Vicki .. . Pryor, Patti ,,,.. , 1'oI1iain.Dayid . . . Pulliam, Karen . ,. . Pum hrey Shawn u.. 225 225 267 225 283 282 281 281 256 271 86, 87 225. i S8 225 zzs 225 241. 225. E221 252. f 1 12913. 51. p 4, ......... . Purkey,Jimmie ..,. 226, 250, 225 269 225 279 260 280 251 225 225 276 244 225 275 272 282 258 289 251 246 279 249 225 225 272 279 282 225 273 247 225 225 268 252 282 271 250 145 276 225 266 225 226 226 252 271 2841 282 256 284 226 2-11 ,77 256 226 266 226 226 226 286 226 286 285 259 QR Qunseharth, Mike. .. ...,278 Quelch, Jill .,,,,. .... 2 46 Quiek, Jerzy . .. ..,,282 Quinlan.l'1i:eky'. . . ,.., 275 Quinn,, Paul , .. ....273 Quinn, Tint ..,, .... 2 89 Quint, Patsy , . Radko. K, , , Rudku, Steye. .. .,,.226 ....270 .......272 Ralilierty. Juliet . . . .... 226. 261 Ragan. Chris .. ..,..276 Raine. Roh ...,.. ..., 2 66 Raines. Stephanie. .. ,...2-96 Rains, .lull ..,,... .... 2 45 Rukestravy, Deann . . ,... 227 Ruley . Danny' , . ,.,. 285 ..,.285 Rulcy'.'l'in1 , . . Runios. Mario .,, ..,,,,. 255 Ramsey, Doug ... .... 46. 277 Ranlsey,.lemii1'er . ..,.. 227 Ramsey, Pat ,.,, .,,. 2 82 Randal, Sid ..... .... 2 59 Ranti, Prisra ....... .... 2 27 Raspherger, Rich .. . ...242 Ralley, Lynne. .. . . .256 Raosch, Lori. . .... 260 Raye. Craig .... .... 2 82 Recinos, llcreilia . ..., 255 Rcdiukulay ., ., . .251 Rediker.l'1rande.. .H265 RedinA.Jana .... . . .255 Reed. Chip ... ., 2-H Reed. Lisa ,.... .... 2 27 Rees, Frank . . . .. .2-H Reeyes. Marilyn . ,... 227 Reid,Marye1l .. ...287 Reiserer, Yieki . .. ,281 Reitnmier. Joseph . . . 227 Remoltdet, Mike .. ..,.. 282 Remsburg. Rick ............ 282 Renard, Paula . .. 245, 2811 Rey nolds, Cuthcrint ,.... 227 Reynolds. Lundy ... ...,. 254 Reynolds,'lio1n,.. ...,... 249 Rhatigan, Hecky . . 227, 281 R1iodex,Sandy .. .... 277 Rhoten, Douglas ..,. . . .227 Ricliardsun, liccky . . ,. 286 Richmond. Chris .. 271 Richmond, Dale . . 242 Riehn1ond,'l'odd . . . 270 Rickard. Dirk .... ...2-19 Ridder, Chris ... . . .272 Ridder, Daniel ... . . .227 RiddIe.11ilI ... ...27R Ridd1e.'l'rody . .. .. .227 Riedel, Steven. . . .227 Riegel. .lelilirey ,,.. . . .228 Riggs, Judith ...,... ...228 Rincon. Christopher .....,.. 259 Rishell, Mielniel ........ 251,278 Ritchie, George ........ 254, 266 Ritterhoose. Kerry ',,.....,. .276 Riy ard, John ..... ..... 2 59 Rourke. Mike . .. ....., 76, 79 Robbins, Greg ........,.... 108 Roberts, Laurin: ..... -111, 228, 280 Roberts, 'liany a ,,......,.., 277 Robertson, Andy .,. . , .272 Rh ard, John .,.. .259 Roarke, Mike .,,, ....... 7 6, 79 Rohhins, Greg ,... ........ Roberts. Laurie ..... 40. 228, Robertson, Annie: .... . . . , . . Robertson, Vicky . , . Rubcrlson, Vincent . . . . . . . Robinson. Phil . . . , . Rodriguez, Carlos . . Roc, Matthew .,,. Rogers, Diana ,.... Rohlings, Ken ..... Rohlman, Mark ..,, Roller, Carol , . . Romans, Greg , . . Romereim, Mark . . . Romereim. Nancy , , . , . . .. Rongey, Ronald ..,. Rnsc.Tom Roaell. Brian ..,.,....,,,,. Rosenhamcr, Harold ........ Rusenirzh, Paul .. . . . .. .,... Rusner, Malia ..., Ross, George . . . Rntramel, Dun . . . Rough, .lim ...,, Rowe, Grant ..... ffiifk' Rowe, Lizabbthc . . . . , . .. Rowland, Chris . . Royal, Mary .,,. Roystcr, Mark . . . Ruhottom. lion . . Rucker, Kevin . . . Ruesk, Michael . . Rugglcs, Randy. . . Ruhl, .luhn ..... Rumph, Fred ,.. Runs, Tammy , . . Russell, Anthony . . . Russell. Dean .... Rutleclgenlanc . . . ....252 Ruttgcn, Teresa , , . . . . . . . 108 280 279 228 255 282 271 228 228 287 260 277 278 228 228 228 276 278 228 288 249 263 259 249 271 279 271 228 282 256 282 229 245 249 258 275 229 287 229 229 DEX 1-.--..-l-1... Snhhah. Nabil .... , Sachdes a. Dex inder Sachs, .lim ,,... . . , Sadeghian, Vahid . . Sadler, Sandy ..... Saflle, Mike ...... Sagerty, Carol .... ....,276 .229, 242 Sagerty, Sandra ........... ....,....,,,.229, Sagvrly, Shirley . . , Sahari, Ismail ...., St. John, Rick ..... Salahudi.lin.Sa1ch . Sulher, Pat .,,., . . Salher. Sharon ..., Saleh. Dewi ..,. Salisbury, Jim ..... 242, 245, .229, 245 ...229. Sampson, Kim ..,. . . . . , Sanders, Lawrence Sanderson. Andrea . ..., 255 Santiago. Mariano .......,, Santos, Gus . ...... Sattcr, Linda ...., Saturday. Shawn . . Sauer, Michelle ,,., Sawdy, Brant . . . Sawdy. Bruce . . . Sawyer, Bo ..... Schaefer, Mary .... .ies-121 H . i iiici i SK.'hal'fcr,1.ianc ......, .... Scheer, Kate ..,. . ........., Scheideman, Geraldine ...... Schenk, Leanda . . ...,... , ,. Scherer. .lohn .,...,,. .... 229 229 282 229 288 269 280 280 280 249 . S4 249 279 279 229 249 245 230 279 230 283 230 282 246 276 276 276 280 279 280 230 278 230 Scherer, Mike .... . Scherzer. Bob ,... Schield, Kim ..,.... Schifl'elbcin,Greg. . . Schiffcrdecker, Larry Schmar, Pete ...... Schmer, Nancy ,.., , Schmidt, Kara . . . Schmitt, Freda .... Schmitt, Lori . . . . . Schnee, Sabra ...... Schneider, Timothy . Hhneider, Valerie 4 , Schnewics, Carol . . , Schoeni, Crista ..,.. Scoonovcr, Pat ,... Stthrag, Chris ...... Schrag, Crystal .,.,, Schremmer, Brenda . Schremmer, David , . SChueli:r,1,isa ...... Schulte. Sharon ..,, Schroeder, Margaret Schurlc, Melinda . . . Schwader, Steve . . . Schwicr, Sig ..,,. Scott, Janice . . . Scott. Lydia ,,.. ..... Scott, Tammy ,,.. . Scott, Veronica . . . Scott, Vincent ..,. Seek, Leroy . . . Seibel, Mark ..... Seiwcrt, Martha . . . Self. Roh ....,,,. Seminoff, Kirk .... Sanger, Kristen ..., Settlc, Lizette ..., Seuser, Dwight .,.. 230, 256 iii 236 iii 230, 230. i i Scvart. Kevin .,,. . ....,, , , Sevan, Marilyn ....,, . . 243, Severance, Diane . , .230, 264, 277 . 57 . 15 285 263 242 230 230 245 2 79 242 230 242 230 252 286 286 279 230 230 279 279 230 230 252 272 230 246 279 230 287 282 259 230 289 278 281 230 264 272 280 276 Seymore. Ben .... . . , Shahan, Radwnn ...,.. Shanhour, Paula ....... Shancr, Christopher . . , , Shuner, Megan ......... Shannon, Janice .,,. Sharma, Dinesh .,.. Shaw, Eddie ...,. Shawn John ...,. Shearer, Brad .... Sheldon, Eddie . . . Shelley, Frances .... . , . . Shclionulana .... ., . , Shank. Melanie . . . . . . Shcplcr, William ..,. Shcridanwlnlie , , . Sherman, Craig ........ Shcrman,Thomas . ..... 70, Sherrod, Aubrey ....... ........,123,125,127. Sherrun, Tina, .,..... . . Shetty, Anup ..., .... Shiblon, Lisa .... . . . Shields, Crystal .... . . . Shih, Michael ........,. Shilling, Danielle ... . . . Shipp, Adrian ,.,, Shock, Wu ........ Shuemilkvtf, Phil .... Shoemaker. Renee . . Shore, Risk .,,,,. Shourhaji, Renae . . . . , . Shreve,Dim . . . Shrewsbury, Kelley .,... Shrout, Rnchell ,.... Shugurt, Beth ....,,,,.. Shuman, Kevin ,,...,... Sicmscn, Kathryn .. 233. Siemsen, Susan , ........ .251, .230, Shaheen, Linda .... . . , Shanahan, Kathleen , . . . . .276, 230. iibf 254. 128, 2555 iii iiif 269, 277 245 230 , 48 281 259 230 251 255 282 282 276 278 .64 263 279 259 275 286 262 283 230 262 2 75 278 263 288 282 265 286 230 283 276 257 279 230 230 259 276 233 Silfer, Jeff ....,. Silva, Michael. . . Silva, Roger Mark Simmons, Garth , Simmons, l .inda . Simmons, Roland Simons, Marjorie Simpson, Mark . , Sims, Russell . , . Singer, Gerald . . Singleton, Jill . . , Sitteruher, Chris Skeen. Anita .,.. Skidmore, Shelley Skolich. Megan . . Slater. Marty . . . Sloan, Kimberly . 'llffiii' 138, 249 233 273 139 269 138 233 233 259 259 281 276 89, 92 Smith, A. ....... . . , Smith, Angela ..,. . . . Smith,Ber1 ...... ... Smith. Burnell . . . . . . Smith,C.B., . .. Smith,Cathy . . Smith, craig . . . Smith. Darius . . . , . . . Smith, Denny .... . . . Smith. Dorothy .... , Smithulanet . . . Smith, Jeff .... Smith, Julie .,,,.. ..,. 40, Smith, Kathleen .,.. . . . Smith, Kim ....., , .... Smith, Kris . . . . Smith. Linda, . . Smith, Miki: . . , ....27 Smith, Natalie . . . . . . . . Smith, Nicholas . . . . .. . . . Smith.Scou ,.... Smith, Steve . ,... .... 258. Smith, Suzanne i- - - . , . . . Smithsun, Gene , , . . . , , Smithson, Randy 265 260 249 233 270 273 258 278 278 267 272 266 265 250 257 289 280 233 233 249 281 272 246 .65 277 287 280 283 283 Saeed, Travis . , , Snider, Don . ..,. . . , . .259 . .... 241 Snodgrass, Cullen , . . . . . .233 Snodgrass, Rhonda ......,,, 233 Snow, Laura ..... ....... . , .233 Snyder, Ann , . .233,243, 267, 279 Snyder, Cheryl . . . Snyder, Melvin .. . Snyder, Peter .... Snyder, Susan .... Sodetbcrg, Sara . . Sodhi, Rqipal ..., Solomon, Shari . . Solomon. Stacey , , Sornka, Michele . . Soto, Michelle. . . Soward, Boyce . , . Spangler, Eugene . Spangler, Kevin . . Spenrs,Marva . . . Spedding, Charies Spencer, Kevin . . . Spencer, Kjersten . Spencer, Lavonna .,..,.....233 ,,........263 ....233 ....279 ..,.260 ....2S8 ......Z-12 .....,....233 ......233,287 ....,,.233 .....277 ....276 ....2D4 .... 249 .... 86,87 ,..83,84 ....227 Spring, Jerry ...... . . . .... 285 Spurgeon. Monique .... , .... 251 Staats. Shannan , , Staley. Allan . . . . . Staley, Curtis .... Stamp, Lars .,.., Standiford, Mark , Slarin, Todd ..,.. Starkey, Gina ,... Starkey, Robyn . . . Starks.C.B, . . . , ,.,...233.279 ...,..,2?5 ..,,233 ....27Z .... 285 ,,,,259 .....279 . ,.,,. .242 ....,l42,272 Starks, Charles ...,......,.. 235 Starks, Marvalie .,.,. ......... . .. ........,.. 156, Steckline, Anita . . , ...,........ 233, Steel, Gienn ..... Steele, Dale ..... Steele, Glenn .... Steele. Rory ....,. Steffens, Stephanie Stein.Linda . . . . . Stenz, Susie . . .. . . 235274, 287 A 2111 'iii' iski ..........z7s .,........zsz ...H249 ,......2S1 ......25S,279 . ...., 43 .....143 Stephan. Caroline ...,,..,.. 277 Stephens. Charlene Stephens, Sandra . .....233,246 .....,,,..235 Stephenson. Gene . . . . .... 285 Stevens, Sandy ,... , . . .280 Stewart. Lisa .... ..,.. 2 80 Stiles, Kim .,..... . . . 74, 78 Stine. Randy .,...... .,.. 2 45 Smckemer, Robert ..... .... 2 33 Stockton. Brian ..... .... 2 51 Stone, Pau! .,..... .... 2 66 Stoner, Shawn .,.. .... 2 77 Storm, Rickey , . . .... 233 Stoufc, Jeff ...... .... 2 60 Stover, Denise .... .... 2 81 Stoves, Doug ...... .... ,... 2 7 1 Strait. Missy ....,., . . .,,. . .279 Strand, Jon ..,.... . 233. 247, 264 Stranghoner, Brian . . , Stratton, T ........ Slrawder, Vicki . . , Strobl, Susan .,... Strummen, Linda , . . . Strong. Denise , . . . Strung, Eddie . . . Strong, Greg .,,. ,....90 ....270 ....22l .,.,280 ..,,.65 ...,278 .,.,l-15 ....278 Stubbings. Dirk . . . . . . .252 Stuckey, Angela . . . ,,,. ,254 Stueve. V ....,l, ...,,l. 2 70 Stuever, Robert ......,, 233, 261 Stuewe, Kevin .. ....... 233 Slurges, Lori .... ..... 2 79 Stutzman. Steve . .... 276 Suarez, Carlos .... .,,. 2 33 Sublet, Reginald ...,....... . 282 Sugarfnol, Peavine's ......,.,... 145, 257 Suits. Gary ......,......... 252 Sulaiman, Salfuddin ......... 249 Sumlin, Sharon ..... .... 2 33 Summers, Cathy .... .... 2 49 Surratt, Anshanene .... .... Z 33 Sunerlin, P.G. ...... .... 2 49 Sutton, Brent . . . . . . , 272 Swarl, Eiran , . . . , , .288 Szupa. Ruth , . . , . . .246 Tubing, Lioyd .....,........ 27.3 Taggart, David ......... 233, 271 Tangdamrongtrakul, Patpong ,.,, Tarum, Nancy ..,.,...... , .254 Tatum, Andy ..,. .... 2 56 Tatum, Connie . . . . . . .234 Taylor, Carol .,.. . . .234 Taylor, Chris ..,. , . .273 Taylor. James , . . . . . .234 Taylor, Kent ..... . , .272 Taylor, Mark .... . . .275 Taylor. Mary .... ..... 2 34 Tayior, Shirley ...... ..... . , 234 Teiehmann, Lori ..,.... 234, 279 Tener. Brent ..... ....... 2 76 Terrell, Jenny ..... . . .281 Terry, Stephanie , , . . .234 Thedford. John ..... ..... 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Worm, John . . . Wuulf. Link . .. ,. . wrigm, nam .,... Wright. Keith , , . . ...28S .....282 ...H242 .....277 ..278 .....287 ..,..287 Yvright. Shannon .... I5 Wrona, Rick , . . ,.... 285 Wulf, Brenda . . ..... 249 Yadullahy, M nssoud ......... Yeager, Bill ................ Yeager Mcilurry, Pa! .,,..... Yelter, Sud .......... ..,,. Yorkers, Brian . . . Yodenludith . . . . Yoder, Sharon . . . Yoon. Patty ..... . , . .23 York, Jeff .......,..... 24 8, 3, Young. Christopher . . . ..... . Young, Cindy .....A Young. Debra .... Young, Grant .,,. Young, Kristina .... Young, Timothy ......,, Young, Tonya . , . Zajkowski. T om .... 238. Zielkenlim ,...,..... .... . Zimmerman, Danny ........ Zimmerman, Mark . . . . . . . . Zimmerman, Pele . . . , ., . Zongker, Scott , . . Zuliiqar. Mohsin . . . . . . . . 248 242 253 289 287 238 238 247 270 238 238 238 256 238 274 ZS! Z 72 27i 278 238 249 245 238 MICHAEL FLECHTNER i-1-fmm page l97 - 'She didn't know what they were or who had put them there. They created quite a bit of hysteria. She called security, the phone company and the police, trying to find out which agency had installed them. If they were alarms, she didn't know what to do if they went off. If they were bombs, she wanted to know - they were popping up everywhere' Although Flechtner admitted he enjoyed the attention and investigations his 'guerilla' pieces drew, he said the intent was not just to create havoc with a prank. He designed the pieces for a distinct purpose. They're eye-openers, reminders that things get slip- ped in and out of your environment all the time. Things like that happen in real life without your being aware of them, and youre never really sure what the effect is.' Flechtner's work focuses on technology to break down biases of living in the computer age. He also wants viewers to be entertained by his sculptures. This statement from his 1984 exhibition, Flechtronix' best ex- presses the intent of his work as a whole: 'Much of my work is an attempt to demystify technology by making it playful. I want my work to be accessible to any viewer. If he chooses to explore the work, the viewer becomes a part of it and has fun.' LAVONA SPENCER -l from page 226---T Spencer, who described herself as a 'die-hard WSU fanatic,' said that being a counselor has been rewarding for her. But her biggest motivation in the job has always been the students. 'After I had been here for four years, and had advised enough students to where I could actually see someone graduate who had been one of my students, it was just marvelous. 'I think that, for a counselor, that is one of the most rewarding experiences - seeing someone that you have seen and known since they were starting out get finished with a processf' She keeps an 'open-door' policy and recognizes what a person has to offer by knowing them. 'I very often say, we are the sum of all of the events in our lives. All of the things that have happened to me are what makes up me. That's not to say all things are sweetness and light. My mother taught me that if ever something bad comes to you, make sure it ends with you. Make sure you're the changing element and that whatever flows from you is good, that way you end what is bad. And it doesn't go on from there.' VICKIE STRAWDER --TT fivm page 221 11 - only a sex symbol. I had a lot of other in- terests and didn't like being looked upon in a shallow way. After Strawder gets her degree, she plans to pursue a career, and has made a few contacts. She has no questions about whether she . will succeed. People sometimes think I'm being unrealistic, but I get what I want. I think people sometimes settle for less than they want.' She struggles between using her talent and being a homebody. Because of the way she looks, she said some men can't believe that she enjoys staying at home instead of waking up and putting on makeup to go to a club. 'I love to sew, and I really get into cleaning my house. I love to bake cookies. But I don't want to get married. I feel like lots of men are attracted to women who have careers like dance. They're attracted to that thing, the dance. But then when they start dating, they want them to quit that and become a housewife. I need the dance and I need my freedom to do that. So until I find someone that I'm sure is going to allow me to do what I need to do, then I don't want to get mar- ried. I'm really a private person. JOHN RYDJORD fr0m page 216 l- 'And you know how slow they are about getting things back to normal. It took until after the war, really, before we got back to normal. I thought about leaving teaching because it wasn't paying enough, and I had a good offer to work in the State Department in Washington in the Latin American field with Nelson Rockefellerf' The university, under then-President William jardine, responded by offering to in- crease Rydjord's pay. And I said, 'No, it's not me, it's the system, me and my associ- atesf Jardine said, 'Would you write me a let- ter?' I did, and he took it to the regents, and they raised eight or nine of us. That's what kept me here, otherwise I would have gone.' Rydjord also stayed because of the academic freedom he enjoyed, and he was also being given new tasks, like reorganizing and, in a sense, saving the graduate program. 'I was a trouble-shooter, too. We got in trou- ble over athletics with a change of grades, and we got kicked out of our conference. So they got the faculty to head a committee and made me the chairman. Within one year we were back in good standing. 'But we cut down the number of basket- ball games to 18 - that's the lowest we've ever gotten - because here was a man who had a game the night before an exam, and then came in to take the exam and flunked. It isn't fair to those boys. And we're drifting that same way now. Rydjord retired in 1959, but still keeps an office in Ablah Library. He has worked on six books, lectured in 75 different towns all over Kansas CI don't think anyone has beaten that l, and kept up with his hobbies. 'So I'm keeping busy. I have to be. I sup- pose l'm a workaholic, I'm only 91. I'm a hobbyist, I collect things - rocks and Indian relics, thousands of them from all over. A hobby is good for one. It changes your con- centration from something that gets boring to something new. A hobby is something crazy one does to keep from going crazy. I like that - it's not original with me.' He has kept on researching subjects of in- terest, which may have helped him during his 'early' retirement. His books have brought him recognition from other parts of the country, but not locally. 'In fact, on my recent book on war, in the faculty reports, I got two lines - that was the mention they made of the book. I don't belong anymore, I suppose. Maybe that's it. That's so impor- tant, very important. To feel that you don't belong is a very lonesome feeling. JOHN GASTON fmm page 200 - rough job. 'You knew not all of them had the money and you had to tell them, your money or your gas.' He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at WSU in education and his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Colorado during an age of activism. Since then that spirit has waned, he said, although the pro- blems haven't. Students now are more in- terested in personal gain than causes. An ex- ample of the change was shown by former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver's visit to WSU last year. 'Quite a change from the old Eldridge of the '60s. He's done a 180 and then another 360 to the right. I was hard to believe he was the same guy from 'Down with America' to 'God, mother and apple pie. In order to impress upon students that the Civil Rights movement of the '60s has not solved racial inequities, He draws upon his experiences growing up in Cleveland, and his training in education and communica- tion. He writes and performs his own poetry, dramatic readings, he said, that have a mes- sage in addition to entertainment value. 'One of the most popular is one called, 'I Was Cool.' It's about a kid who didn't learn anything in school because he was cool, just sat in the back with a little attitude. One day he graduated because the teachers didn't flunk him - they didn't know how to deal with him. And when he goes out for a job he suddenly realizes there's no demand for cool people, and he reflects back, saying if he was back in school he'd learn all he could.' Gaston said his time to devote to a pro- blem is his biggest limitation and biggest frustration. Solutions depend on working with people on a personal level to help them grow, but the problem is societal. To ease his frustrations, he devotes himself to cultivating another type of growth. 'I like plants, I turn to my plants. I water them, cut off parts, and grow others. That makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something - I can see my plants grow. 'You look at the magnitude of the task and realize you're only touching a small portion, and you get discouraged wondering whether there isn't something more that you can do. But one person can only do so much, and that's the real frustration. 'As we become smaller, we have to literal- ly become our brothers' and sisters' keeper. Like Martin Luther King said, we will live together as brothers or die apart as fools. That's what we face.' Wha- SU'AD AWAB --fmm page 207 - school. And she also is fighting a bias. Furthermore, l'm an international student. I want to show you guys that international students aren't dumb. And if I can get a 3.9 while you guys can't, that is an achievement. l feel that when I step on so many heads, it makes me feel so good. 'I've had so many experiences when l first meet people. They talk real slow, like I can't understand English. I don't have many American girlfriends, Iprefer American males because American girls - and I'm not saying all - they're not interested in knowing me. I have other things on my mind than boys and my hair. The girls that I like are not that beautiful. The more beautiful they are, the bitchier they are. That's why I learned all these words, so I can cuss them.' Awab plans on getting a doctorate, still un- common for women to receive in her country. Moslem fundamentalists, although a small op- position faction in Malaysia, do not believe women should take such a role. But she realizes that she is unconventional. 'I think I am different compared to other Malaysians, but with other Americans, I am probably just ordinary. But I see myself teaching as a professor at a university. Dr. Su'ad, I like that.' JAY HULL from pagf 235 1- meone in the NFL. It didn't matter whether or not I liked it, or if I was happy or not. Peo- ple would come up to me and say, 'Do you know how many guys would give their left eye to play in the NFL? - well, let them. My parents couldn't understand and thought I was blowing a great opportunity and were hurt because I made a major decision without talking to them. Since returning to Wichita, Hull has work- ed in marketing for Goldsmith's and con- tinues a conditioning program and lifting weights. He is interested in several different careers - the restaurant business, coaching and law. During this transitional period, he rethought his attitude and decided the best way to achieve his goals is to go back to foot- ball. Returning to football means learning to live with bruises, pain and injuries. 'When you hit someone, you get hurt, but you can't show pain because you try to psych out your opponents. Guys play hurt all the time and you're expected to play just as well, and not given any extra praise. Players are always looking over their shoulder, afraid if they miss a game there is someone else waiting to take over.' Hull has a new agent and is optimistic about his chances - he's antsy to get back to the game. 'Pro football is a job but I'm will- ing to accept the drudgery because there are so many benefits, and I can have fun and satisfaction while being financially rewarded. if I don't make it, l have many other And things to fall back on.' DON DISTLER from page 236 i---- tion for the world they live in and they in turn fight for the value of natural systemsf' Althoughhe cares passionately about the environment, he is not a rabble-rouser or in- volved in any environmental political groups. Rather, he is an outdoor man whose greatest satisfaction comes from his work as director of a 330-acre natural history reservation on the Ninnescah river. Everything l do is con- nected to my work. I am truly overjoyed to work on the natural history reservation - consider it my leisure pursuit.' Distler developed an interest in nature as a youngster. 'My dad was an avid gardener and had thousands of fIowers in the back yard. As a child l collected insects - my mother en- couraged me and let me bring tadpoles in the house. I was allowed to be a more primitive child than most. Distler's love of water sources also came from his background. 'Dad enjoyed fishing and took me along and l developed an affinity for streams and their environmentf' I-Ie ad- mits to one hobby outside of biology - his motorcycle. He has traveled alone over much of the back country in the western United States and Canada. 'l sleep better outdoors,' he laughed. SUS Considering our previous experience with such ventures, the chances this year's staff had in putting together a yearbook seemed about equal with jesse jackson's chances of being elected president. We would like to thank those who, through their help and support, enabled us to pull it off. The Pamassus staff dedicates this page to them. Kirk Garrett, who must have felt like God watching us stumble around. Like a sher- pa, you dispensed great advice and sug- gestions - all for a reasonable fee. Bob Vukas, who never openly laughed at our questions or requests. jim Hellman, who believed in what the book was trying to do, and still thought we were fiscally responsible. Marc Francoeur, for showing up and mak- ing fun of us on last deadline. Candace Wells, who fed us during deadlines. Max Schaible, who is mentioned every year in this spot for various reasons. Thank you for your ideas and friendship - the beer is still waiting at Kirby's. Don Shreve, whose free lance work pulled us out of some tight spots. Susan Wolcott and Rob Matwick, who tirelessly provided statistics, players and press passes. Margaret Maben, who saved the last deadline. Kevin Spencer, who helped out by hang- ing out. Also, thanks to Kate for bringing in the cof- fee pot and keeping us awake on the road to Topeka, Minda for caring about other peo- ple's money: KMUW for being understan- ding about the workloadg Lance Hayes for keeping our toilet in good working condition by using it every half hour - precious little else was more regular in our livesg the Sunfower staff for looking the other way when we stormed through: Lester Anderson for allowing school-work to slide during deadline, the people at One-Hour Picture Perfect and Chromatech for their color pro- cessing and printingg and to last year's staff, for making it look so easy. V This book is dedicated to all our friends and lovers, many of whom are presented in this book. I ! -D a i 4 F 1 Q 3 I 1 5 1 Y J I J I 4 1 I I 9 l ? ? f a 9 3 a 2 Q E 3 A 1 Q 1 1 1 9 I I ! I I Q 1 5 v W Q l D i ! I ' 1 Q C 4 V -sa 4 i 3 , 5 1 I 1 E , 3 E J P'A'R N'A'S SUS CORRECTION We regret there are several printing errors contain- ed within this book which occurred while at josten's Publishing Company. While we don't want to point out every error, we do want to note and apologize for major ones. The publisher switched the names of Allison Daniel, page 150, and Sandy Sadler and jill Braendle, page 168. -Parnassus 1985 H., Le ,lava i, fl, ix w 'S' I ,f '1