University Daily Kansan
Mondav. April 29. 1974
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Drum Major Dave Koenig
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Drum Major to Return for 6th Time
Kansas Staff Reporter
Dave who? No, he's not the guy who wore the famous No. 12 and the white shoes. As a matter of fact, a football helmet and a baseball cap aren't even part of Koenig's attire on the field.
Koenig has been a drum major for the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks and drum major tryouts at Memorial Stadium, Koenig had to decide whether to leave school and face the challenges of the "real world" or to remain at KU. Koenig is
A musical background is necessary because drum majors do a great deal of work in this department. They blow tempos on whiskles for the band to follow. Foster said that if a drum major made a mistake and the band followed him, the result could be
He decided to return to KU. It will be his sixth straight year as a drum major of the KU band and his fifth year as head drum major.
Koenig has played the trombone for 15 years and also plays the tuba
Assistant drum major next year will be Jim Hall, Overland Park sophomore, and Steve Laller, Leavenworth junior, who willwinning for his second year as a drum player.
The primary duty of a drum major is leadership, Foster said. They train new members of the band and acquaint them with their music. The department dudes is teaching band members the fun
Most people don't realize what being a drum major entails, according to Bob Foster, director of bands. He said drum majors should have not only an extensive background in music, but also physical capabilities and leadership qualities.
damentals and various styles of marching.
Koenig, the parents convinced him to join his high school band, soon learned to love marching bands. After his junior year in high school, he attended a drum major camp in Kentucky. He said he had to march nine hours each day there.
Keenig said a good drum major should have better than average coordination and skill.
The drum majors and the band practice about eight to 10 hours every week during the football season. Koenig said he practiced several hours on his own, too.
Koenig said he works hard every year to condition himself for the marching season. During the week of enrollment, he begins practicing his skills and does situps and backbuilding exercises.
Good coordination is essential for a drum major, according to Koenig. He said there were several styles of marching that required a lot of skill. Some majors use the stricter form, while others strutting style. Koenig's style of marching is strueling, also known as the "goose step."
Koenig said aggressiveness and cockiness are crucial to make a drum major stand out from the band. "You've almost got to concerteed but you’re not marching," he said.
Koening drum majors of the KU band differed in their style and philosophy from many other college bands. Koening said he tried to complement it. The band doesn't serve as a background for an acrobat or twirler, he said. Instead the band performs along with
Most people probably don't realize how pscheduled the band gets every game day, trying to out-perform the opposing school's band. Koenir said.
"To entertain people, to put on a great show and to defeat the other band are the only reason I go out there each weekend," he said.
He said that the band often received
Prof Likes Fixed Health Plan
Kansan Staff Reporter
By GLENN MEYER
A prepaid, integrated health care organization, to which a patient could periodically pay a fixed fee in return for all his health care needs, is the best thing that can be done to improve health States, according to Mike Viren, assistant professor of humancology and economics.
But others are opposed to such an idea, and even Viren doesn't think this type of health care organization will dominate the health care of the future.
Viren studied health care methods at the University of Kansas Medical Center for four years and wrote his doctoral dissertation about health care economics.
Viren said that in some areas of the country, organizations such as the Kaiser Foundation provided a wide range of medical services to members who, instead of paying for each service, periodically paid a fee.
The Health Maintenance Organization, (HMO) Act encourages the formation of such organizations, he said. It requires all states to drop laws against corporate medicine and requires employers to provide the option of membership in a health
He said such prepaid health organizations could provide the services of physicians, pharmacists, hospitals, occupational and medical therapists, psychiatrists even psychiatrists under the same plan.
Rape Prevention Proposals Request Student Senate Aid
Proposalss requesting lightning, phones, escort services and student patrollers will be submitted to Student Senate Wednesday by the Rape Prevention Task Force, according to Barbara O'Brien, Bonner sophomore and chairman of the force.
Although most of the assaults and raps have happened during the day, O'Brien said yesterday that increased lighting would give "a sense of security and well-being." This is a necessary rape prevention attitude. she said.
If funding for lighting isn't available through the university, members of the committee are suggesting the Student Council to implement independent crime prevention organizations.
O'Brien said that they have investigated the coat and upkeep of security phones and other equipment.
organization in lieu of the usual employee health insurance programs.
phones with direct connection to a campus security area.
The HMO Act was introduced by Rep. Bill Roy, D-Kan., amended by a joint conference of the House and Senate and passed Dec. 29, 1973.
The problem the committee anticipates with this proposal is the phones' initial installation cost, O Brian said. The Student will be asked to further investigate the cost.
The act gives the secretary of health, education and welfare the power to make grants and contracts and to guarantee loans for the planning, initial development and extension of prepaid, integrated health organizations or health maintenance organizations. It also provides for HMOs regulation and evaluation of HMOs by the secretary.
There are escort services presently operating in residence and scholarship halls, the committee reported. The proposal will ask the Student Senate to set up a coordinating committee to help their effectiveness.
Viren said HMOs were advantageous to the consumer because he could avoid the confusion and trouble of going to several hospitals. Viren said they helped them individually for their services.
The task force also wants to suggest the establishment of a student foot patrol, O'Brien said. This would involve the selection and training of students, on a campus or in the campus at night to report and investigate suspicious behavior, O'Brien said.
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The HMO could also reduce health care costs, he said.
Viren said he was in favor of small HMOs comprising a few doctors and specialists who could contract the services of specialists who weren't in their organization. The patient would choose them, but the doctor would in pay the other specialists for their services.
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He said if an organization was responsible for taking care of all their patients' health care needs for a fixed fee, it would be more careful with its resources because it would be trying to cut expenses to a minimum.
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Viren said many physicians he had talked with had little idea what their patients were doing.
The HMO Act permits HMOs to obtain insurance for medical care exceeding $1,000 per person.
cent of any expenditures that exceed an HMOs total annual income.
Ivan Anderson, assistant director of the Kansas Regional Medical Program at the Medical Center, said he didn't see much future in HMOs.
He said the act required HMOs to offer a basic medical package that was "more expensive than any common health insurance plan on the market today."
He said physicians wouldn't support the establishment of IMOs.
The HMO Act, he said, puts a premium on the provider of medical services to keep the patient healthy; this should be the responder's responsibility. He didn't like the idea of taking on the risk of expensive emergency medical treatment. He said that some physicians might have to relocate because they couldn't fulfill or meet the requirements of joining an HMO.
He said the act was also at fault because it didn't provide for the redistribution of physicians and specialists to cover areas of the country that were underserved.
Joseph Harkins, assistant professor of human ecology and pediatrics, said the HMO Act contained certain provisions that were self-defeating.
Anderson said the act might not receive much public acceptance because HMOS would mean that many people would have to change physicians.
The act also requires that every member of the community surrounding an HMO pay the same rate for the same plan. Most insurance companies, he said, calculated their rates according to age groups, economic groups or other categories.
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Pride is a big factor in determining the band's performance, and pride is something the KU drum majors and band members don't lack, Koenig said.
In his five years as a drum major at KU,
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Koenig has never missed performing with the band at a football game. As a freshman, he marched the entire year with double shin-splints.
He said that his most fulfilling moment as a Jachywa drum major was at the Liberty Choir in 2013.
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