University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1983
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Visitors to conduct KU band
The KU Symphonic Band's annual winter concert this weekend will be a homecoming for a former KU director, an autumnus and a former music director for England's Queen Elizabeth II. (noun)
Robert E. Foster, the KU Symphonic Band director and conductor, said the concert would feature Russell L. Wiley, who was the KU Symphonic Band director for 37 years; Claude T. Smith, an alumnus and noted composer; and Sir Vivian Dunn, the first man in the band music, knighted for services in band music.
Sir Vivian, who visited KU four years ago, arrived this week from Great Britlan and practiced with the band Wednesday, Foster said.
the concert will be performed at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
HE SAID THAT KU'S Symphonic Band would be the first college band to perform "Festival Variations," a major new work written and conducted by Smith, and that Sir Vivian would end the concert by conducting "Coronation March," written by Sir Wilman Walton in 1893 for the Queen Elizabeth I.
Thomas Stidham, KU assistant director of bands, will begin the concert with "Festival Concert March, Opus 46," written by James Barnes.
Foster will conduct "Overture to the Tsar's Bride," by Nikolai Rimsky-Korovitz; "Colonial Song," by Percy Gréhner; "March Brilliant," by Robert Schiller; and "History of Kansas," by J. J. Richards; and "Wood Up Quicksten," by John Holloway.
Wiley will conduct "Danza Final
(Malambo)" from "Dances from Es-
sas" at the New York Public
Library.
The band comprises the top 68 student instrumentalists at the University, Foster said.
Astronomers prove existence of 'cloud'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have accidentally discovered a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas between distant galaxies, indicating there is some kind of "invisible" matter such as black holes holding the cloud together, it was announced yesterday.
Dr. Vervant Terzian, chairman of astronomy at Cornell University, said the find could lead researchers to the discovery of enough material that gravity might be strong enough to eventually end the universe's expansion.
He said it was the first time a concentration of hydrogen had been observed between galaxies, although it had been known for two decades that there is hydrogen between stars within galaxies.
TERZIAN AND associates at Cornell said the gas cloud was a billion times more massive than the sun and was a few times larger than our entire moon. The gas cloud is a million light years from the Earth. A light year is equal to 6 trillion miles.
The cloud is rotating like a galaxy and may actually be thought of as a proto-galaxy, Terzian said.
"Its a galaxy that didn't quite make it," he said in a telephone interview. "It has existed for a long time, and yet has not formed luminous stars. Therefore the proto-galaxy is still proto-galaxy that still remains a proto-galaxy, like a retarded galaxy."
The fact that the cloud is rotating and that the gas has not dispersed means it must be hiding some matter 100 times more massive — enough gravitational pull to hold the cloud together, Terzian said.
rossiibilities for this invisible matter might be black holes - collapsed stars so dense that gravity keeps light from escaping - or perhaps planet-size
oodies like Jupiter that radiate little energy or unseen fundamental particles.
IT IS HIGHLY unlikely there are any very faint stars in the cloud, although efforts are under way to confirm that, Tzerian said.
"It is very unlikely this is the only one," he said. "Therefore, there may be many others. That may give us a chance to about invisible matter in the universe."
The discovery was made last month when Tertian and other astronomers from Cornell were calibrating the 1,000-foot-diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. They were studying hydrogen in galaxies and pointed the telescope toward a "blank spot." in space.
Stephen Schneider, a graduate student, found an unexpected radio signal from neutral hydrogen. This turned out to be from the edge of the cloud. The Cornell scientists then mapped the whole cloud.
The Arecchio observatory is operated by Cornell under contract from the National Science Foundation, which made public the astronomers' report
Their findings will be published soon in Astronomical Journal Letters.
By GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
KU group to bring Carnaval, a lavish festival, to Lawrence
Staff Reporter
Every year for four days before
Lent, the streets of Rio de Janeiro
erupt.
Color and light, dance and song,
extravagant costumes that mask
identity and the driving samba
rhythmical collective inhibition of
Brazilian life.
It's the biggest show on Earth," Mauro Nobre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, junior, said, of the annual pre-Lenten carnival.
THE HOLIDOME will initiate the carnaval at noon with cultural exhibits and side shows, Nancy Friday, Holidome administrative assistant, said. A drawing for prizes from area
The Brazil-Portugal Club will bring a taste of the famous Brazilian festival to the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome tomorrow when it sponsors the Fifth Annual Brazilian "Carnaval" in conjunction with the first anniversary celebration of the Holidome.
businesses at 7 p.m. will highlight the day's events, some of which are free.
The grand prize is two free plane tickets to Rio de Janeiro, Friday said, which can be used any time before Dee. The tickets are supplied by several airlines.
The Brazil-Portugal Club will sponsor a dance from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Nobre, a club representative, said.
Admission to the dance is $3, and tickets can be purchased at the Student Union Activities office, the Spanish and Portuguese department, the Holidome or at the door, Nobre said.
"We expect a lot of people," he said, "and we only have a limited number of tickets."
IN TRYING TO duplicate the atmosphere of the original carnival, Nodre said. The dance will feature instruments, music and a costume content.
During the day, the lobby area will have exhibits of tropical plants, flowers and herbs as well as side shows of Brazilian music and dance and games for children. Friday said. A buffet of typical foods and drinks.
including Brazilian coffee and tropic
beverages, will be available throughout the day.
In Brazil, carnival is celebrated in the club and streets of major cities throughout the country. Nobre said. It usually lasts four days, but in some areas it can last longer.
The celebration in Rio de Janeiro,
an important port and the second
largest city in Brazil, is the most
extravagant and the most popular, he
Observers and tourists watch from bleachers as dancers and paraders in lavish costumes wind their way down brightly lil streets.
The beautiful costumes are one of the main attractions of the carnaval. "It's the psychological appeal," Nobre said. "You give in to a lot of repressed fantasies. Many man dress women and women dress like men."
THE LAST NIGHT of carnival is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which initiates the 40-day Lent. Carnival begins as a way to indulge before the onset of Lent, the austere period before Easter.
Forensics program to sponsor debate tourney this weekend
Dona Parson, the director, said he expected 60 teams to attend the tournament, which was voted by U.S. debate coaches as the outstanding tournament of the 1970s.
The University of Kansas forensics program will sponsor the 27th annual Heart of America debate tournament, with a director of the program said this week.
Parson said debate teams from Dartmouth and Sanford, the top teams last year, had indicated they would return again this year.
THE KU TEAM cannot win the tournament because a debate tournament tradition says host teams do not compete after preliminary rounds, be said.
On campus
TODAY
TGIF will be from 3 to 6 p.m. at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631
HUMAN RELATIONS FORUM will have an organizational meeting at 12:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas State University and Sexuality" is this week's theme.
THE KU DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY Colloquium will be at 3:30 p.m. in 412 Lindley Hall.
"EASTER ISLAND: Holistic View," by Carlyle S. Smith, professor emeritus of anthropology, will be the topic of the Anthropology Proseminar at 4 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
A MINI-RETREAT, "Sexuality in Christian Perspective," by Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, will be from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
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An Evening with Bill Kurtis
Correspondent and co-anchor CBS Morning News Emmy Award Winner Former anchorman WBBM-TV, Chicago and WIBW, Topeka Graduate of KU School of Journalism
6:30 p.m.
Kansas Union Ballroom
The University of Kansas
11th Annual Banquet for Higher Education Saturday, February 26, 1983
Saturday, February 26, 1983
Tickets: $7.50 per person. $3.75 student ticket.
Call 864-3710 for reservations