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KANU celebrates 50th anniversary with special activities through year
By Meredith Carr Kansan staff writer
KANU-FM 91.5 continues its celebration of 50 years of programming with a concert by a nationally syndicated radio host tomorrow.
The station has been celebrating since January, and more events will take place through out the year. The next event of the celebration is tomorrow with a concert by Marion McPartland. McPartland is host of a national syndicated program Piano Jazz. The concert will be at the Folly Theater, 300 W 12th Street, in Kansas City, Mo., and will cost $30 per ticket for the public.
"Folly Theater was already planning to bring Marion McPartland into town, and because KANU is the only station in the area to carry Marion's Piano Jazz we thought it would
be a good partnership," said Annie Benskin, corporate development manager.
The next event is a live broadcast of Sunflower Music Festival from Topeka which starts Friday, June 7, and goes until Saturday, June 15. Performers will play all types of music.
"We have never been a part of the Music Festival until last summer," Rachel Hunter, assistant program director, said. "We decided we were going to do two live broadcasts, but they were so successful we're going to broadcast them all."
For the remainder of the celebration events will also take place in surrounding cities.
"The reason we're having our celebration in Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City is because that is where a majority of our listeners are located." J. Shafer, news director for
KANU-FM, said. "We would like to show them our appreciation for listening by catering to them."
Shafer said approximately half of the station's listeners were in Topeka, and the rest are in Lawrence and Kansas City.
KANU-FM 91.5, located in the Broadcasting Hall behind Marvin Hall, has been home to news, sports, cultural and educational programming as well as AudioReader, a service for the visually impaired, since 1952. The new building will open in 2003 at 1120 W. 11th Street.
Other entertainment acts lined up for the celebration are:
■ "Right Between the Ears," KANU's comedy troupe to perform at Crown Center, 2450 Grand Boulevard, on Saturday, June 29.
■ "Whad 'Ya Know," a popular comic quiz show will perform at the Lied Center-Saturday, July 13. Ticket cost is $30 first-tier seat, and $20 for balcony seats.
A concert titled: "A tribute to Richard Rodgers," will feature the best songs from Broadway on Saturday, Sept. 7. The show will be at the Quality Hill Playhouse, 127 W. 10th, in Kansas City, Mo.
Sunday Sept. 15, KANU's 50th birthday. The staff at KANU is hoping to have the party at its new building site, 1120 W. 11th Street. The party will be open to the public.
A folk music concert at Lawrence's Liberty Hall is co-sponsored with WestSide Folk, and is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7.
contactcarr at mcarr@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brooke Hesler.
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The Associated Press
Two students dead after accidental fall
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A college student and a man he was wrestling with died early yesterday after they fell out a third-story window at a University of Kentucky residence hall, a school spokeswoman said.
Jeffrey Pletzer, a 19-year-old University of Kentucky freshman from Villa Hills, was pronounced dead at the scene. Matthew Rzepka, 22, of Bowling Green, who was visiting his brother at the 23-story Kirwan Tower, died later at the University of Kentucky Hospital.
"The two males were apparently wrestling in an open area of the third floor of the dormitory," spokeswoman Mary Margaret
She said she didn't know if alcohol played a factor in the accident, which happened around 2:30 a.m. The window was a sealed, double-pane window, roughly 5 feet wide and 8 feet tall. It was covered with plywood after the accident.
Colliver said. "They smacked against a plate glass window, the window gave out and the two fell three stories to the ground."
Kim Fesmire, an 18-year-old freshman from Paducah, said she was sleeping in her fourth-floor room when she was awakened by the commotion.
"It was chaos — people yelling and screaming and crying ... just running everywhere," she said.
Both of the men died of blunt force trauma to the head, according to coroner's reports. Rzepka had been a student at Western Kentucky University until the summer of 2001.
Lindsey Cooper, an 18-year freshman from Dayton, Ohio, was studying for a biology exam in her 17th floor dorm room at the time and said other students were drilling in from the library.
"Then this just happened out of nowhere. It's awful," she said.
A steady stream of students poured out of the dorm yesterday morning with boxes, lamps, televisions and radios in tow to go home for the summer. Many wiped away streams of tears as they comforted each other.
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd and his wife went to the scene before 3 a.m. to comfort witnesses.
"As a parent, you dread that phone call at 2:30 in the morning like I got," Todd said. "Your heart just goes out to those two families."
At Ohio's Denison University, a 17-year-old girl fell to her death from a fourth-floor dormitory window early Saturday. Alcohol was ruled out as a factor in her death, investigators said.
Anne Thomson of Lake Forest, Ill., had been visiting her sister at the school and stayed awake for about 24 hours. Investigators speculated that Thomson was fatigued and had gotten up in the night to go to the bathroom and mistook the fourth-floor hallway window for her bed.
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