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Lightweight Tuba Easier to Handle
Maneuvering tubas in a marching band is now as easy as handling a trumpet.
The revolutionary development in tuba playing is made possible by a white, fiber glass, $ 14 \frac{1}{2} $ pound sousaphone, Russell L. Wiley, band director said yesterday.
Conventional sousaphones, a branch of the tuba family, weigh from 37 to 39 pounds.
"The new tubas are amazing," Wiley said, "and they play equally as well as the old ones."
Wiley said he tried them out on his tuba players last spring and they voted a solid yes for the white instruments.
The sousaphones were purchased by the School of Fine Arts this summer.
"NOT ONLY ARE THEY featherweights, they are indestructible," Wiley said. "You can bang them into the wall and never make a dent."
Wiley has not accustomed himself to the color of the tubas.
"I'm used to gold," he says, "but these are better than the gold-colored ones they make."
The industry manufactures gold-acquered fiber glass tubas but the color fades away Wiley explained.
"The white color of the tubas should make for a pleasing contrast against the dark color of our uniforms," Wiley said. "But we bought them for the sound they produce, not looks."
The weightlessness of the tubas will allow for certain maneuvers the KU band has not used for a couple of years. Wiley added.
"We can put our tubas on the ends in four company fronts," he said.
THE BASS OF THE BAND, including the tubas, usually must stay near the center of the band.
Wiley said he decided to get lighter tubas when a KU band member was dragged to the ground
rounding a corner under the weight of a 39 pound Bulfinch accordion tuba.
"I had to devise a special strap for those things," he said.
The new tubas' working parts are metal but the rest is fiber glass.
They will be used for the first time on KU's Band Day, September 30.
Regents Approve Retirement Plan
The Kansas Board of Regents Saturday approved a faculty retirement plan for the five state universities.
The plan, passed by the Legislature last year, provides for retirement of faculty members at half pay. In addition, during the teaching career 5 per cent of the faculty member's salary is deducted, which the state matches.
The Kansas legislature approved the retirement proposals in March, placing faculty members under Teachers Insurance Annuity Association. The TIAA plan limits faculty members to a $10,000 annual salary, except those teachers who are still teaching.
A faculty member who worked for passage of the plan said today it was "entirely satisfactory."
Going Deeper
TULSA, Okla—(UPI)—The oil industry plans a well nearly five miles deep in Plaquemines Parisa, La. The hole will cost at least $2 million.
The record depth now is 25,340 feet in Texas at a cost of $3 million, and it was a dry hole.
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ASC Delegates Meet With Chancellor
The All Student Council will meet at 6 tonight for a dinner with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
The ASC business meeting will be held at 7:30 following the dinner.
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1961
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior, and chairman of the ASC, said committee appointments would probably be discussed, and that all of the present ASC committee members would attend the meeting.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.—Charles Fletcher Lummis
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Dean Marvin Heads Extension Group
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, has been named chairman of a new KU study committee on the objectives and potentialities of University expansion.
The committee will make recommendations to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe after a careful study of extension in general and at KU specifically.
Other members of the committee are Robert C. Casad, assistant professor of law; Carl Fahrbach, assistant admissions director; Don E. Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering; William H. Cape, associate director of the Governmental Research Center; John Nelson, dean of the Graduate School; Frank S. Pinet, associate professor of business; T. Howard Walker, extension director; Duane
Wenzel, professor of pharmacy and William J. York, assistant professor of education.
Jay Janes to Hold Rush Tea Tomorrow
The KU women's honorary pep club, Jay Jane's, will hold the annual Rush Tea for all interested upperclasswomen at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union. Dress for the occasion is informal. The meeting place will be posted in the Union.
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