6A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 2002
NEWS
It's all in the family for this five-person rock band
Jessica Tims Kansan staff writer
He said Family Reunion usually practiced in Lyndon, but before shows it rehearsed in Lawrence.
When the band Family Reunion gets together in Lyndon for its weekly practices, it is just that — a family reunion.
"When we have a show coming up, we practice here to make it easier for Anne because Henry and Mark still live in Lyndon and us three live in Lawrence," Ted Kritikos said. "And since they are the youngest, they have to, you know, have a
Brothers Alex, Ted and Henry Kritikos decided to form a rock band a year ago. Middle brother Ted Kritikos, Lyndon senior, is the lead vocalist. Guitar player and oldest of the Kritikos boys, Alex, lives in Lawrence. Younger brother Henry, who plays the guitar, is a junior at Lyndon High School where he met drummer Mark Harries, Lyndon High School senior. This week, Anne Stephens, Lawrence senior at the University of Kansas, officially became a "family" member when she joined as a bass player.
"Alex is a great guitar player, Henry's a good guitar player, and I just thought we should try to get a band together," Ted Kritikos said. "It just made sense ... and we lived together."
parental permission type of thing."
Susan Kritikos, the boys' mother, said she doesn't have a problem with letting Henry drive 55 miles to Lawrence to practice with his brothers.
"He's 17 and a good driver," she said. "I trust him with my Suburban. They just load up the drums and they're off."
Although the band's taste in music varies among members, they bring their likes together to form a sound of their own.
"I don't think we want to model the band after anybody." Stephens said.
Ted Kritikos said if the band was to be like another band it would be similar to Led Zeppelin, with Bob Dylan fronting and Paul McCartney writing the songs. He said members had heard comparisons to Pixies Flaming Lips and Semisonic.
Family Reunion has played shows at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., the Stephenson Scholarship Hall's "Bands in the Basement," the Lyndon Fall Festival and Lyndon High School dances.
Family Reunion will be the second of three acts at 9 p.m. at Coco Loco Mexican Cafe, 943 Massachusetts St.
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Members of local band Family Reunion stop to pose during a recent rehearsal. Pictured from left are Anne Stephens, Lawrence senior, Alex Kritikos, Lawrence resident, Ted Kritikos, Lyndon senior, Mark Harries, Lyndon High School senior and Henry Kritikos, Lyndon High School junior.
Contact Tims at jtims@kansan.com
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and an internationally recognized researcher at KUMed.
Hudson said his work had led him to Vanderbilt where the facilities would allow him to pursue his research on a faster track.
"It's an exciting time to be in research," he said. "My work has led me into cancer and diabetes and now to Vanderbilt. An investigator has got to continue the pursuit of the findings he has."
Both Hudson and Dey said it was critical for KU to improve and maintain top-quality facilities and recruit strong scientists.
"KU has a good program, but it is important now for the institution to try and maintain this program with an infusion of some major new resources, facilities and scientists," Hudson said.
Lynn Bretz, interim director of university relations, said Vanderbilt could lure professors away by offering better pay, facilities and equipment.
She said that Hudson and Dey were two reasons why KU needed new biomedical research facilities.
"it is blow for KU when those men leave, but we can recover with adequate funding," she said.
KU is urging the state to fund plans like the biomedical research building initiative, which is before the Legislature right now, Bretz said.
"The Regents have proposed issuing more than $110 million in revenue bonds for new research facilities at Wichita State, Kansas State and KU," she said. "Of this total, $65 million would go toward equipping laboratories on the Lawrence campus."
Dey said new medical buildings were an obvious way to pursue researchers.
"It is definitely important to have a new research building, but more urgent and pressing is to recruit a critical mass of strong scientists," he
said. "It is also very important to build solid infrastructures to support existing scientists and to lure potential scientists to KU Medical Center."
Although innovative facilities could be enticing, Hudson said he was more concerned with how KU would attract researchers.
Bretz said that KU researchers brought in $224 million dollars to the state last year.
"The U.S. Department of Commerce translates this money into 9,000 jobs in the state of Kansas," she said. "Research is part of the solution for the state's economic problems."
Clay Blair, chair of the board of regents, said while the legislature was facing a challenging budget, it should see the long range impact that the research bill offers Kansas.
contact Lewis at slews@kansan.com. This story was edited by Gillian Titus.
Billy Hudson
Professor and chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Internationally recognized researcher in the field of proteomics, the study of proteins
Studies the structure of proteins and the roles they play in kidney diseases.
Waased award a National Institute of Health grant through 2008,
which will give him 37 years of continuous funding per year and several other researchers with him to Vanderbilt.
S.K. Dev:
- University distinguished professor in the department of molecular and integrative physiology
- Has worked at NYSU or LSU.
- Discovered that chemicals in marijuana called cannabinoids
- Leading researcher in the field of reproductive biology
- Has worked at KU Med for 29 years.
- Discovered that chemicals in marijuana called cannabin oids interfere with pregnancy and often ends a pregnancy before the embryo can become implanted in the uterus.
His research has received 22 years of funding from the National Institutes of Health and recently received 10 more years of funding.
Will be taking three well-funded researchers to Vanderbilt.
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