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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Sports: Oklahoma State embarrassed Kansas 86-53 last night in Stillwater, Okla.
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Inside: Two small airplanes collided above an L.A. freeway yesterday.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2000
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A man looks through the underground vault archives near Hutchinson. The vault holds items that are part of The Kansas Collection, including microfilm. Photo courtesy of *The Wichita Eagle*
University records kept safe
Secret off-campus sites house back-up transcripts
By Doug Pacey
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
ad Strong Hall burned to the ground Saturday night, student transcripts and records still would be available at a secret off-campus location.
"We've got another location with all the records that I would prefer not to disclose," said Richard Morrell, University registrar. "It is within 100 miles of the campus, though. It's not a building, but it is a secured site."
Morrell said that although the University stored things inside limestone caves in the Kansas City area, the registrar's office records were not there. The registrar's records have been stored at their secret location for nine years, he said.
Meanwhile, the Kansas Collection, items documenting Kansas history that are housed a few dozen yards north of Strong Hall in Spencer Research Library, also has an off-campus site. Microfilm and other items have been kept in the salt mines of Hutchinson for about five years, said Becky Schulte, assistant curator of the Kansas Collection.
"Most of our stuff is original, so it's not duplicated." she said. "We don't have a lot there."
Schulte also said that she thought the University kept things in limestone caves in Kansas City.
"We've got another location with all the records that I would prefer not to disclose. It is within 100 miles of the campus, though."
Richard Morrell
University registrar
The off-campus sites are not the only places where records are kept, though. Morrell said the registrar's office kept records at another building on campus — he wouldn't say which — and backed them up electronically with Academic Technology Services at the computer center. The office electronically scans each transcript and puts them on a video cassette, he said.
The Office of Student Financial Aid also keeps its files backed up electronically at the computer center, said Brenda Maigaard, associate director of student financial aid.
Morrell said that the Registrar's office could not ensure students that their records would always be available but that he thought it was doing the best job it could.
Maigaard said the office checked with ATS each year to make sure that its records still were available.
"If a tornado goes through Lawrence and destroys all the buildings, then we've got the off-campus site," he said. "We can't ensure students 100 percent, but we've taken the right steps to do that."
Shooting suspect arrested in Topeka
By Katina Hull
writer @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Topeka police and KU Public Safety Officers made an arrest yesterday in connection with the Jan. 23 shooting at the Burge Union.
Byron Kirtdoll, 22, was arrested shortly before noon in Topeka on the charge of wounding a student in the early morning of Jan. 23 at a dance party sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Gregory J. Davis, Denver senior, was shot in the hip in the Frontier Room at the party, which between 300 and 400 people attended.
Kirtdoll is not a KU student, KU Public Safety Officer Troy Mailen said.
Quincy Garner, Alpha Phi Alpha president, said Kirtdoll was not connected with the fraternity.
Mailen said he didn't know if Kirddoll had attended previous parties at the University.
He also said he couldn't say if a weapon had been found on Kirtdoll because the information was part of the investigation. A judge issued a warrant for Kirtdoll's arrest last week. Mailen said.
Kirddoll was booked at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections yesterday afternoon. He was transferred to the Douglas County Jail and booked on charges of aggravated battery. A jail employee said there was a Kansas Department of Corrections hold on Kirddoll, so he could not post bond to leave.
Kirtdoll's first appearance is scheduled for 4 p.m. tomorrow at the jail.
Information leading to the arrest was obtained through KU Crime Stoppers and witnesses' accounts of the shooting. Officers will review the information before they determine the amount of the Crime Stoppers award. Mailen said.
He also encouraged people with any further details regarding the shooting to come forward.
Terrell L McTyer, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member, talks about the issue of excluding people from parties at the town hall meeting at the Burge Union. Last night's meeting was held to discuss the recent shooting that took place at the Burge Union on Jan. 23. Photo by Kate Levenson /KANSAN
By Ryan Blethn
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Alcohol, campus violence topics at town hall meeting
director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Alcohol and other drugs were blamed for problems at African-American Greek parties — such as the one where a shooting occurred Jan. 23 — last night at a town hall meeting.
The meeting at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union followed a Black Student Union meeting and was led by Robert Page, associate
Page said the meeting was planned in response to the shooting of Gregory J. Davis, Denver senior, and because campus violence had to be addressed.
"As you all know, campus violence happens in many different formats." Page said. "We felt, as the Black Student Union, we had to address some things."
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Music professor spoofs Westerns, rides away with Grammy nod
By BriAnne Hess
Kansan staff writer
Chris Moore, assistant professor of music, said he used to dream he'd be nominated for a Grammy. His dream has now come true.
On Feb. 23, Moore will rejoin members of The Chestnut Brass Co. at the Grammy Awards as a nominee.
The nomination came as a complete surprise to Moore, who didn't even know that the composer, Peter Schickele, had submitted the CD for consideration.
"I never thought in my life that I'd be nominated for a Grammy," Moore said. He said that the classical crossover category was reserved for when a classical artist played something that was kind of hip. Moore described the CD as being tongue-in-cheek classical music.
The crossover award will be presented during the nontelevised portion of the six-hour ceremony. Only 12 of the 100 categories will be televised.
The group was nominated in the Best Classical Crossover Album for the CD Hornsmoke.
Moore was a member of the professional brass quintet, in which he played trumpet from 1994 to 1996, when they recorded Hornsmoke. He said he stopped playing with them when he opted to teach at the university level again and was tired of living out of a suitcase 150 days a year. He has been at the University of Kansas since 1996.
Chris Moore, assistant professor of music, plays his trumpet. Moore's CD Hornsmoke. The Grammy awards will be presented on Feb. 23. band. The Chestnut Brass Co., was nominated for a Grammy for the Photo by Tara Kraus/KANSAN
Moore said he and his wife originally
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Moore said his ticket to the ceremony was included with the nomination, but his wife's ticket was pretty expensive. He said his wife was one of the reasons he had decided to attend, and she was excited about finding the right gown for the occasion.
had decided not to go to the Grammy ceremony, but after his colleagues told him he'd be nuts to miss it, he reconsidered.
"She's the main motivator behind me going." Moore said. "This is our opportunity that we can both go and enjoy an event."
The quintet recorded Hornsmoke in 1996, but it was not released until 1998, making it eligible for this year's award. The disc is divided into three main pieces, "Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major (Ole)", "Brass Calendar" and "Hornsmoke (A Horse Opera)." Moore said his favorite piece was "Brass Calendar," the 12-part compilation which refers to a specific holiday each month of the year.
"The most fun one to play is 'Calendar'." Moore said. "For the musical mile, it offers the most. The piece 'Hornsmoke' is musical candy."
The horse opera is a narrative with musical accompaniment about the building of the Old West.
In the album's cover notes, Schickele wrote that he selected the extremely
cliched plot from most grade B Western movies and put in a voice-over when narrative was necessary. Schickele provided the narration for the opera and accompanied the quintet for the piano
Scott Watson, professor of music,saia Moore's nomination was a chance of a lifetime.
concerto on the piano.
"Typically in the classical music game.
these nominations are hard to come by," Watson said. "Most of us would give some part of our body to get a nomination. I told him if he saw Courtney Love to ask her why she hasn't called."