Tuesday, April 25, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Maxwell winds up Senate term
By Erinn R. Barcomb
Kansan staff writer
Korb Maxwell has to relinquish his office as student body president tomorrow, but he's going to remind Ben Walker, student body president-elect, that this is still his turf — for a little anyway. He will work at his position on the Students Advisory Committee into May.
"Ben has to kick me out," Maxwell said. "But I told him he's in his pledge month for a while."
Maxwell said he would then head to law school, possibly at the University of Texas.
"It seems a natural progression to go to law school," Maxwell said. "What I did this year was public policymaking."
Although Maxwell said he had got student government out of his blood,he might consider running for office in the future.
"Politics should be a hobby," he said. "It's a completely fickle thing."
Maxwell has witnessed politics firsthand both at the University of Kansas and at the Kansas Legislature. His internship with appropriations chairman David Atkins helped him secure
need-based financial aid for Kansas students, despite tuition increases.
Maxwell also counts among his successes a sexual-orientation policy for universities through the Board of Regents and getting the recreation center passed by the Kansas Legislature.
Maxwell said he was better at lobbying and having discussions, as he defended his position that the role of lobbyist was as important as student body president.
"The average student won't walk into a committee meeting," he said. "We're not a high school student council."
Maxwell said he was disappointed that his efforts to eliminate the women's and nonrevenue sports fee failed. He argued that students should not be supplementing the athletic corporation's funding.
Kate Harding, engineering senator who was on the campus fee review committee, said she disagreed with Maxwell on the issue but it was a good issue to raise.
Maxwell said that he hoped the argument he initiated would stay in senator's minds when the fee was up for review in three years.
"You think about it a lot," Maxwell said. "The trust they've placed in you, I've had a lot of fun, but I'm ready to move on. It's been a hell of a ride."
Student Body President Korb Maxwell finishes his work before giving up his post tomorrow to Ben Walker, the new president. Maxwell plans to attend law school in the fall.
KANSAN staff photo
Dede Seibel, student body vice president, is pleased her term this year helped make an impact in KU policy. She plans to attend law school in North Carolina next fall.
KANSAN staff photo
Seibel leaves stamp at KU
Bv Erinn R. Barcomb
Kansan staff writer
The office wasn't what she expected, but Dede Seibel is pleased with her year as student body vice president.
Seibel, McPherson senior, who initially had considered running for president with vice president-elect Marlon Marshall, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, said she had been happy with what she had accomplished in the position, which she will relinquish tomorrow.
But making the transition from senator to the person responsible for running the meetings was difficult.
"It was like something had been taken away from me, being able to argue positions," Seibel said. "To be hounded with questions and constant debate was very invigorating. It was kind of a letdown."
But Beibel may get back to her roots in political debate. Seibel, who will attend law school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said her ultimate goal was to serve in the U.S. Senate or work on a presidential executive staff.
She said she was looking forward to law school because she could put academics on the
front burner, even though she would be tempted to get involved in extracurricular activities.
Seibel's extracurricular activities this year have included pushing a policy that would allow students to retake a class and keep the second grade. Existing policy averages the two grades, but the new policy is under review by the provost.
She said that even if the policy didn't turn out as she had intended, she would be pleased knowing she influenced KU policy.
"It says I did something at KU." Seibel said. "At least that discussion was there."
The campus safety advisory board, which Seibel headed, was not as rewarding. The board, which will present a campus safety master plan in May, was not able to get Student Senate to pass a bill that would have changed a fee that finances outdoor lighting on campus to a comprehensive safety fee.
Seibel said she was challenged when she came to the University from the town of McPherson, which has only about 13,000 people. four years ago.
"KU was such a challenge, but it seems like the challenge has subsided a bit," she said. "I think that's why KU has prepared me for challenges ahead."
Sound library cries out in need of curator
By Erin McDaniel
Special to the Kansan
Cardboard boxes stacked high and deep are the most organized part of the first room of the Archive of Recorded Sound in Murphy Hall.
Unorganized and unused, the room serves as storage for much of the archive's jazz collection and once doubled as the office of Dick Wright, an associate professor of music history who died earlier this year. Stacks of records, books and papers litter the floor and the room's several desks.
The archive has no curator: Wright, who donated most of the jazz collection, worked as curator of the jazz collection until his death. Now there is only Jim Seaver, a retired professor of history who comes in a couple of times a week.
"Now Dick's gone, and at least he was here most of the time," Seaver said. "I do what I can, but it's just such a monumental task."
The task is made more monumental because of the sheer number of volumes in the archive. Although no one knows the exact number, Seaver said it contained about 100,000 recordings. It is ranked among the Top 10 sound archives in the United States, and many of its records are among the rarest in the world.
But some say the archive is not being supported as it should.
"Kansas has something really special here," said Henry Snyder, the person with the original idea to start the collection and former professor of English history. "Unfortunately, it's not being treated as something special. Over time, it has not been given the kind of attention it deserves."
Two recently donated music collections remain in shipping boxes. Volunteer graduate students have done most of the work to organize the recordings, but Seaver said they had not made much headway.
"Without a curator, there's no consistency in trying to get things done," Seaver said. "A curator is absolutely essential if we are going to make the archive available to the public."
The jazz collection holds recordings from every major period of jazz, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Some of the recordings never were reissued and are considered very rare. The collection also contains thousands of books, periodicals and jazz videos.
The classical collection holds the only existing complete set of Verdi's Rigoleto on phonotype records and a collection of Berliner records, the first disc records ever made. It also contains many wax cylinder records, which also are very rare.
The sound archive was established in 1979 with Seaver's collection of about 25,000 opera recordings. Seaver donated his collection at the urging of Snyder.
University of California-Riverside, said he thought the department of music was wasting an opportunity to improve students' educations by not making the archive a priority.
"What we have here is a record of performing and recording traditions from the past, which is so important for a music school," he said. "The University has invested a significant amount in the archive, and it needs to be supported."
Stephen Anderson, chairman of the department of music and dance, said the department was looking at options for staffing the archive but had no definite plans. Lack of funds and personnel stand in the way of its progress. he said.
Snyder, who now teaches at the
"In terms of what's in the archive, we have a fabulous resource for research," Anderson said. "But it will remain only a potential resource until we can get it in shape. We're really not just eager, but anxious to get it up and running."
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