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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944
KANSAN COMMENTS
Criticism of University Band Is Unjust Under Circumstances
Following the Thanksgiving Day game, considerable criticism was made of the University band and the type of music which it plays. According to one critic, some of the football team's defeats could be attributed, in part, to the "slow, dreamy" pieces which sound like "funeral dirges" and put the players in a correspondingly unaggressive mood.
Such criticism is rather far-fetched as well as being unjust. In the first place, the majority of the men on the K.U. football team are not weak-willed and sentimental enough to be swayed by any "dreamy" music to which they probably didn't pay any attention, anyway, in their concentration on the game. In the second place, these comments have absolutely no foundation if they refer to the music the band plays on the side-lines. Only fast, peppy marches are ever used under such conditions (if you don't believe they are are fast, just take a look at any band member's music or ask his opinion after he gets through playing one).
The only possible exception to this repertoire is the first chorus of "Hot Time in the Old Town," which is played in waltz time, but the tempo is changed into regular march tempo the second time through. Russell Wiley, director of the band, plays this number so frequently because of the number of requests for it
from the student body and from the cheerleaders. They deem it one of the most popular numbers the band plays as it provides a background rhythm for the uniform swaying of hands by the student which attracts so much favorable attention.
If the writer was referring to the between-the-halves show, he probably didn't understand the purpose of this last program which was dedicated to Thanksgiving Day and to the members of the armed forces. An explanation of each formation as it took shape was read over the loudspeaker, and even though it was difficult to understand, a great many of the spectators recognized the Red Cross when "Angels of Mercy" was played, and the church steeple when the strains of the "Doxology" arose.
That the University band has one of the largest membership rolls of any activity on the campus proves the loyalty of its members. It gives its services gratuitously for dozens of University demands, both night and day. There are times when its performances are not up to the standard which both its leader and its members desire, but this is usually because of short notice and excessive demands on its time. If the students can not overlook these occasional mishaps and continue to support the band loyally, they are letting down one of their University's most popular and successful organizations.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Kansan:
Speaking as an entirely disinterested bystander, I am seeking the answers to some questions that are bothering not a few of the inhabitants of Mt. Oread.
First, why should the administrators of this school try to atone for their own gross irresponsibility by kicking some of the ablest student officers on the Hill out of the offices to which the student body elected them? After all, everyone was fully warned of the publication of the 'Sour Owl', and I believe the people in question were acquainted with other 'Sour Owl' publications. They knew what was coming! It seems to me that forewarned should be forearmed for any persons supposedly responsible enough to have the reputation of a school of this size on their shoulders.
The administration need only have asked to censor the 'Sour Owl' before publication to save all this trouble. Why not put responsibility where it belongs and quit trying to save people's faces by kicking the staff out of all University offices, etc? People would forget it quicker if you admitted just who was wrong and saw that it didn't happen again in the future—Irate Student.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansam:
It is not unusual for lack of school spirit at KU. to be condemned. At one time or another, everyone from the chancellor to the water-boy has been blamed. But now something new has been added; a new target for criticism was created by Robert Lee in a letter to the Daily Kansan, Nov. 28. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Lee singles out the University of Kansas band for its "lack of spirit" and accuses it of playing "funeral dires."
As a matter of fact, the band is the most important pep organization on the hill. Our cheerleaders have said that, without the band, a pep rally could never succeed. At football games the band is always on the
job with appropriate tunes. It is true that part of the music the band plays in its between-halves performances is of a more serious nature, but the purpose of it is not to inspire the team, but to appeal to all types of people in the crowd and to put over the show. While the team is on the field, there is no music more fitting than K.U. pep songs and snappy marches; that is what the band delivers.
It takes plenty of school spirit to produce a band by drilling on a cold field at 7:30 a.m. Our band has never failed at any athletic contest or rally. In reality the band should be commended rather than censured.
Rudy Carl
To Editor, Daily Kansan:
I will be among the first to condemn the Sour Owl, but I believe that we are taking the wrong path. Can it be denied that the condemned students have in the past shown themselves to be outstanding students and leaders on our campus?
The government of 12th century England, acting upon the theory of exact retribution, amputated the hands of thieves. Modern criminology advocates reformative punishment.
And yet, now we are denying them the chance to redeem themselves, an opportunity to prove to us and to themselves just how capable they
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