Thursday July 9, 1981
Pie face makes a hit with students
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Neither rain, nor hail, nor a pie in
the face could stop Barbara Steidle from her appointed lecture.
And for courage under blueberries, the Michigan State Uni
versity associate professor earned a spontaneous ovation from
her students.
Steidle is only one of more than 25 victims of The Chefs, an
underground student group that prides itself on arranging artful
displays of fruit, custard and chocolate on the faces of surprised
MSU professors. Members of The Chefs go by names like
Niacin, Riboflavin and Potassium Sorbate and make their hits
wearing chefs hats, shirts and aprons, as well as inverted long-
johns to hide their faces.
So far, none have been caught by campus authorities,
although students seem to know how to contact the pie throw
ers, who charge $20 a hit.
Steidle's students were not all overjoyed to see their professor
pelted with pastry. In fact, as the attacker stalked his victim
before the class of 300, several students called out and one
shrieked "No, you creep!" Warnings came too late, however, as
the chef pushed Steidle's face into the blueberry pie.
The history professor left the room briefly to clean her face,
but returned to resume the lecture. As she finished, the students
broke into applause that continued even after she left the room.
— Collegiate Hedlines
Bellydancing
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sual, instead of sexual.
Koska made her costumes
by looking at her instructor's.
She said she's spent about $80
on both costumes. "There're
made mostly of chiffon, gold
braid and a lot of breads and
bangles — and just about
anything that shines," she
said.
There are several versions
on how belly dancing was
named, she said. "Some say it
came from beledi, which is a
form of belly dance. Also,
there's a saying that when Lit
tle Egypt performed, her
dance was introduced as
'danse du ventre', which
means dance of the stomach,
or something like that.
"It's really not belly dance,
it's beli dance, which means
folk dance," she said. "That's
what belly dance is — a folk
dance, the women dance one
kind of dance and the men
another."
Instructions start with
"how to twirl the veil and
then a simple pattern on the
zils (finger cymbals). It's a
one-two-three pattern. Then
you go to a very fast one-two-
three-four," she said.
As in most dances, the art is
in making the dance look
easy. But looks are deceiving,
because belly dancing isn't
easy. "It's a lot of exercise,"
Koska said. "It's good for the
stomach, it's good for the
legs, it's good for the whole
body because you learn how
to move this without moving
that.
"The hardest part is how to
do steps with your feet be
cause you're doing things
with your hands too. To coor
dinate all that together takes a
lot of practice," she said.
Koska will perform at Back-
stage during the fall.
IStrippers offer women
a night on the town
United Press International
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — If they could
only see their grandmothers now.
Once a month, silver-haired women and
young housewives — ages 18 to 102 — get
together with mothers, daughters, sisters and
friends and do something men have done for a
long, long time.
They go and see the strippers.
Some husbands even buy their wives the $5
ticket.
But the night may be a secret for some women
who tell their husbands they are going shopping,
to a movie or to play bridge.
"I loved it. I think this is super," said Marge
Behmas, 44, of Arlington Heights. "Men do it all
the time. Why not have a night out on the town?
I'm just a normal housewife. I think it's great for
the women. Husbands always go."
She and the other women were watching the
Peter Adonis' Fantasy Traveling Show, a male
burlesque group that plays the south and south
east and made its Midwest debut at the Cinderella
Rockefella discotheque.
It's a choreographed show with comedy, lavish
costumes, lights and music. In a dozen acts, the
dancers shed clothes until all that's left are glitter
ing G-strings.
One stripper danced up to Behrans, caressing
her face in Ids hands as she slipped a dollar bill
into his G-string.
"It's done with taste. It's not raunchy. This is
fun. Women have good times together. I've got to
buy my husband one of those outfits," she said.
Members of the Adonis troupe grew up
together in Charlotte, N.C., where Adonis began
a strip show with two other dancers. But Bob
Gregory came along and suggested adding com
edy to make the act "total entertainment."
"We took the friends around us we knew that
were crazy, zany and good dancers and formed a
sort of magnetism that makes it work," said Greg
ory, business manager and co-owner with
Adonis.
It was a risk from their secure jobs. Most had
professional dance training, but no experience in
the entertainment business.
Gregory, 25, was a banking financial analyst;
Adonis, 29, computer operator; Adonis' fiance,
Yvonne Calhoun, 27, shoe store assistant man
ager; Joe Goodnight, 29, hospital credit manager;
John Purvis, 28, bartender; Dean Welch, 24,
Caribbean cruise staffer; and Mike Bowers, 27,
restaurant manager.
Adonis opens the show: "Welcome to the
ladies' night out. This is your night out. Let me tell
you a secret. The more you yell, the more you're
going to get."
Gregory takes over as emcee: "You worked all
day, you deserve a night out where you can have
fun. You deserve a once-a-month get together
with the girls to raise hell."
Wiping off the sweat from each stripper's body
after each act with a T-shirt, Gregory announces
the shirt will be a prize for the most enthusiastic
lady of the night.
"It's a liberated feeling," Gregory said. "Most
women still today, even if they work another job,
their lives are geared around their husbands.
"We're not trying to take advantage of them.
We're not throwing men's bodies in their faces or
anything like that. We handle ourselves classy
and we make them laugh. We make them feel
good about themselves."
At first, Gregory said, husbands didn't want
their wives to see the show.
"I think there may be a little envy that we were
in good shape and they weren't. But now it seems
to be that the husbands really enjoy it. Some
husbands buy tickets for them."
The husbands benefit when the women come
home, he said.
"I'm not saying that only sexually, but the
women just feel good about themselves. Anytime
you have a good day and things went right for
you, definitely your husband's going to benefit
when you come home. The husbands say, 'Come
back next month.'"
"We make it a lot of fun. That's made us last.
Male dancing, or women's oriented entertain
ment, is here to stay."
Juanita Sellards, 40, Rolling Meadows, invited
her daughter along. She said her husband
thought it was nice to see them doing something
together.
"I was due for a good laugh. It's been a long
time and I've never seen anything like this," she
said.
Three generations of grandmother, mother and
daughter — and sometimes even greatgrand
mothers— frequent the shows. One time, several
convalescent home residents came, including a
102-year-old woman in Greensboro, N.C.
The ladies clap and yell to the music, dance up
to the strippers, hold dollar bill tips in their mouth
and chest, pat their behinds, kiss them on the
stomach, say "I love you" and walk back to their
seats screaming.
Some women grab the dancers' waists, never to
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e women plead "take it all off." But Welch
said: "You always have to leave them with some
thing they didn't see. It's a big tease."
Grouchy dragon steals the show
Dragonslayer: Disney for adults
By Cathy Saathoff
Battalion Staff
"Dragonslayer" is a movie
you can go to without having to
borrow a child to make people
think you were forced into baby
sitting.
A co-production of Walt Dis
ney Studios and Paramount Pic
tures, "Dragonslayer" seems
more like a "regular" movie
than the Walt Disney movies of
childhood days. It may be a bit
scary for kiddies anyway,
although after the Dragon con
sumed its first victim in a blind
ing screenful of fire, a tiny voice
rang out through the theater:
"What happened?"
Best that you not know, my
child. The Dragon is a master
piece of special effects, a nasty
old thing with breath that could
barbecue the cast of thousands
in "Gone With the Wind."
She has some little baby dra
gons, messy eaters but not yet as
huffy as she is. Mamma is mag
nificently disgusting; Baby is
your basic garden variety dis
gusting. Someone should teach
the little things table manners.
Mamma is definitely not into
women's lib. She's a mother at
heart — in more ways than one.
She's also a red-blooded dra
gon, as the movie plainly
shows.
The Dragon has a taste for
young virgins, which she satis
fies at the rate of two per year in
lieu of baking the entire village.
(The sacrificial offerings don't
do so bad themselves in the
blood-and-gore department.)
The young virgins are not lib
bers, either; only one has the
smarts to get herself ineligible
for consumption.
Enter Galen Bradwardyn,
apprentice sorcerer and man-
about-town. The Dragon is the
true star of the film, but cherubic
Dallas native Peter MacNichol,
as Galen, is a gallant co-star.
Galen is a sweet young thing
who doesn't know how to deal
with his considerable powers.
He looks just too innocent for
words, much too sweet to kill a
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Dragon.
But he is determined, despite
the many obstacles he encoun
ters, to get that Dragon. Galen
believes in himself and the
magical glowing amulet that is
the source of his power. Every
one else believes in the amulet,
but not many believe in Galen.
It's that peachy face again.
Galen has a lot to learn. He
sometimes gets more than he
bargained for; his magic is im
pressive if unruly.
The power behind Galen's
work is that old Disney magic,
the special effects that have
thrilled children for so long.
Flashing lights, shooting stars,
colored flames. Just a touch here
and there, but you know, just
know, where the touches came
from. Disney's artists swept
their magic brushes across the
film, giving it that extra touch
that says "Disney."
Fourth of July fireworks dis
plays have nothing on "Dra
gonslayer."